When Prince Harry called his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, once during the Covid pandemic, there was reportedly a "stony silence," said to be a direct result of tensions in the Royal Family

Queen Elizabeth II felt "really upset" by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle over plans for their royal wedding, according to the late monarch's cousin. Lady Elizabeth Anson wrote that the late queen was "not at all content" and noted an incident in which Harry was "rude to her for ten minutes."

On July 1, The Times published an excerpt containing the claim made in a recent edition of royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith's Substack, Royals Extra. In that update, Bedell Smith, the author of bestselling biographies of the late Queen,