On April 9, 2021, Queen Elizabeth II lost her 99-year-old husband Prince Philip. A few days later, on April 17, a private funeral was held at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle with the British royal family and in small groups due to the rules imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Only downside: Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex was not at the ceremony. Prince Harry’s wife was pregnant with his daughter Lilibet born on June 4 of the same year. According to her spokesperson, her doctor would not have authorized her to make this trip.
“Thank God she doesn’t come”
Friday July 15, the British daily The Mirror related remarks reported by the British writer Tom Bower. According to the latter, Queen Elizabeth II was relieved by the absence of Meghan Markle at the funeral of her late husband. “Thank God she doesn’t come”, would have declared the queen to believe the words of Tom Bower. Present at the funeral of Prince Philip, the writer observed a certain tension during the event as he confided to The Mirror : “Meghan had advertised her seven-month pregnancy as an excuse not to travel and at Windsor Castle the Queen prepared to face the public on one of the saddest days of her life. Philip had been her rock for the past 70 years. To comply with Covid restrictions, she would cry alone inside the chapel.”
Married since 2018 to Prince Harry, Meghan Markle has very bitter memories of her integration into the British royal family, as she explained to Oprah Winfrey in March 2021: “When I joined this family, it was the last time until we arrived here that I saw my passport, my driver’s license, my keys, everything handed over. I went to the institution and i said i needed to go somewhere to get help, i said i had never felt this before and i needed to go somewhere, and i was said I couldn’t, that he wouldn’t be good for the institution.” She had also mentioned having been the victim of racism, which also targeted her son Archie. Charges that have never been digested by the Windsor clan.