Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were reportedly left “furious” by the late Queen Elizabeth II following her third-to-last annual Christmas speech. During her festive address in 2019, the late Queen was seen surrounded by a number of family photographs – with one of the Sussexes and their son evidently missing.
The apparent “snub” was reportedly the “final straw” for Meghan and Harry, who, just weeks later, made the decision to step down as senior working royals. The couple, who now live in the US, were allegedly “tipped over the edge” after being snubbed from the array of family portraits.
In their 2020 book, Finding Freedom, authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand claimed that Meghan and Harry believed the Royal Family was “conspiring against them” with the move.
The book claimed that Meghan and Harry had felt that they had “been sidelined by the institution and were not a fundamental part of its future”.
Scobie and Durand wrote: “One didn’t have to look further than the family photos displayed during the Queen’s Speech on Christmas Day.