According to a royal expert, Queen Elizabeth II, who is known for being pragmatic, may have been prepared for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s decision to quit their positions as senior royals.
The Duke of Sussex met his future spouse in July 2016, when the two of them were introduced to each other by a common acquaintance and kept their romance hidden from the public for half a year.
However, the duo decided to take their relationship to the next level and brought the news of their engagement in November 2017, even though it was reported that Prince William was against such a rushed marriage and advised his younger brother to wait for a while before proposing.
Royal insider and author Stewart Pearce has recently claimed that the monarch had most likely foreseen every possible outcome of her grandson’s relationship with the Suits actress from the very beginning.
The royal expert said in an interview that even though Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s determination to distance themselves from the British royal family took the world by surprise, it was certain that Queen Elizabeth II and her son, Prince Charles, were informed in advance about the decision of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Pearce stated that Prince Harry has often claimed he is very close to his grandmother, who was his “Colonel-in-chief.”
In addition, the royal expert also explained that it was in the monarch’s nature to plan in advance for every possible outcome.
He claimed that the Queen and the heirs to the throne were not one bit surprised or blindsided by “megxit.” They were shocked by the manner it was done.
He revealed: “The eruption took because of Harry and Meghan leaving the way that they did, although of course, their departure was well-known about by Prince Charles, by the Queen and also by Prince William, etc., way before we knew about it.”
The author claimed that after Prince Harry said he wanted to marry Meghan Markle, Queen Elizabeth came up with a plan that considered their departure.
He shared: “You can just imagine when Harry, full of love for the lady he was falling in love with, arrived back and went to see Her Majesty. She’d have said, ‘let’s take this easily, let’s court her for a year, and then let’s talk again. They talked again from what I understand from the people that I know, and Harry was emphatic ‘I want to marry her’ and the strategy was created.”
Queen Elizabeth’s no-nonsense nature pushed her to develop a strategy in the early stages of the romance because she did not want to get up in the negativity or become the villain.
He concluded by: “So the whole strategy was developed right at the very beginning, it came to a shock to us but actually, the mechanism was always there, all of the possibilities. That’s how pragmatic Her Majesty is, which is why she’s able to fly like an eagle over the whole thing observing and not get caught up in the corruption or the vilification or the negativity.”
The power couple has moved on, but the family drama has not stopped.
