Queen Elizabeth's Sussex Disapproval & Meghan's Palace Nickname: New Royal Secrets Revealed

ingred se's new book my mother and I challenges the of repeated story that um Prince Charles as a pupil hated gordonston school up in mishia in the very north of Scotland um she says that she had tea with the then Prince of Wales uh at H grve his house in gloucestershire and she mentioned gordonston not least because her late husband Benson was a contemporary of Prince Charles at the school and was in the same house as Prince Charles and uh apparently the Prince of Wales replied that gordonston wasn't brutal it was just basic and uh it taught him Independence but I'm afraid that doesn't mean to say he liked it because I don't think he did witness the fact that when it came to his own Sons Prince William and Prince Harry he did not pointedly send them to goldenstone he sent them to Eaton hard by Windsor Castle and it is well known and has never been denied that when he had to go back to gordonston having spent the weekend uh with his um grandmother the Queen Mother the late Queen Mother he would cry on her shoulder because he hated going back there there's no doubt that he was brutalized by other boys on the Rugby field and elsewhere and then of course that did happen to him also Australia where he was at the gong grammar school for some time during his wider education ingr SE says in her book uh that when the engagement of Prince Harry and Megan marle was in the offing the Duke of edinb uh the late husband of the late Queen uh took to calling Megan the do a reference to the Duchess of Windsor Wallace Simpson who married of course the Edward VII who who then abdicated on the 10th of December 1936 in order to be with the woman he loved uh this was uh quite a pointed reference because the Duchess of Windsor yes she was an American and yes she was twice divorced Megan only once divorced when she got married at St George's Chapel Windsor and of course in the royal family The Duchess W of Windsor was regarded with some great disdain because she was seen to be uh the reason for all the terrible things that had happened abdication was the big band word in the royal family because uh when Edward VII abdicated it meant that the Queen's father the Duke of York then became King George I 6 and the Queen Mother to her dying day believed the fact that the extra responsibility put on the shoulders of her husband who hadn't been prepared for being the Monarch helped to shorten his life I think uh it it quite clearly was a pointed reference by the Duke of Edinburgh I would have thought that he probably didn't quite approve of the match and I think using that nickname or that coded word uh rather indicated that in the book ingred Seward says that the queen was unhappy or question the shade of white of the wedding dress that Megan Markle uh wore for her Splendid wedding at St George's Chapel Easter thinking that perhaps it was too white uh for a divorced woman I wonder um if that is absolutely true because the queen was a great study she was a great Authority on matters of this kind and she would know that it is not the shade the exact shade of white that a bride wears uh that proclaims her virtue or or virginity uh but rather if she wears or chooses to wear Orange Blossom Orange Blossom is always being the indication the floral indication of Purity in her book uh ingred says that the late Queen was not happy about her Elder son Prince Charles the Prince of Wales uh volunteering to give away the bride at at the marriage of Prince Harry and Megan marle uh the queen was a stickler on on these sort of formalities and she would have realized that what is the reality of it all it in a wedding the person giving the bride away is usually the father or if the father has died or is not available then a senior member male member of the family usually steps in to do the job well in this case of course Megan Markle wasn't on good terms at all with her father Thomas Marco indeed she was on bad terms with every member of her family apart from her mother who was at the wedding and one uh one niece so Prince Charles I think rather gallantly rather nobly stepped in but from the Queen's point of view it did slightly cross over the family border here it should have been somebody from Megan's family giving her away in marriage uh as is normal and certainly in most Christian ceremonies of this kind so I think that was it I don't think she the queen criticized the the prince in particular but she felt it was a departure from what was normal and customary and she didn't like things like that she always liked things to be properly done the medals worn in the right order the orders done in the right order everything done perfectly in her book ingr SE does mention and detail the change of the relationship between the late Queen and her grandson prin Harry and I think that was inevitable I I'm sure I'm certain the queen would have been dismayed by what happened there after because the royal family went out of its way to me welcome Megan marle into the family and if you remember the crowds were standing 20 deep in Wind the Great Park to welcome them it couldn't have been a more friendly introduction to the royal family I think uh what is more interesting in the book was um the details about the coming apart of the relationship between Prince Harry and his older brother Prince William and Prince William complaining about some of the Antics as he saw it that Prince Harry got up to and Prince William apparently made the point that um when he uh got married uh he had to shave off his beard because um army officers are not allowed uh to have a full beard that's for the Royal Navy they're allowed to have a mustache but not a full beard um Prince Harry of course insisted on keeping his beard even though he was in household Cavalry uniform when he got married also Prince William I think wanted to um to get married in the uniform of the RAF and of course he' qualified as a helicopter the pilot with the RAF and served uh very well uh in that role uh but he was told by the queen quite uh pointedly that he had to wear the uniform of the Brigade of gods a red tunic well I always felt the red and white you know the red of the tunic and the white of the brid's dress in this Cas Kate Middleton always rather goes to rather garish you know rather garish like a Barb's pole red and white uh but anyway they were red and white and and Prince William did as he was told because he was told that that was the right way of doing things and then he saw his younger brother more or less flout these rules and that rather rankled with him I think in a way that's quite understandable it's a small thing but between Brothers it can mean quite a [Music] lot

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Length: 8min 21sec (501 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 05 2024