Real reason Meghan Markle was ‘asked to stay away’ from late Queen’s deathbed by King Charles

In a rumored call to Harry, King Charles reportedly picked up the phone and informed him that Meghan should not accompany him to Balmoral during the Queen’s final moments. He did so for a very significant reason.

The royal family rushed to Balmoral to be by the late Queen’s side in the final moments of her life. But not everyone was reportedly welcome. King Charles allegedly made the difficult decision to ask Meghan Markle to stay away and allow Prince Harry to visit his grandmother on his own, with the understanding that Princess Kate had also been asked to remain at home.

Robert Hardman claimed that Kate had chosen to stay away rather than actually being asked to do so in his biography Charles III: New King, New Court, and The Inside Story. The Princess, in the eyes of Hardman, chose to remain in England to care for her three children, George, Charlotte, and Louis.

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They were scheduled to begin their new school, Lambrook, on the same day as the Queen passed away. Unintentionally, Kate’s choice opened up King Charles’s path. Charles wanted the royals to concentrate on their final goodbyes and avoid petty infighting at the time because he still believed his mother still had days to live and not hours.

According to the 2024 book, he had simply wanted Meghan to avoid family conflict. Harry himself wrote about the disappointment his father had when he learned Meghan wouldn’t be able to attend Balmoral.

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In his tell-all memoir Spare , he claimed: “He said I was welcome at Balmoral, but he didn’t want… her. He started to lay out his reason, which was nonsensical, and disrespectful, and I wasn’t having it.” Harry said he retorted firmly to his father’s comments about Meghan, saying: “Don’t ever speak about my wife that way…He stammered, apologetic, saying he simply didn’t want a lot of people around. No other wives were coming, Kate wasn’t coming, he said, therefore Meg shouldn’t. Then that’s all you needed to say.”

The Queen peacefully passed away at 15:10 on 8 September. Of her family members, only Charles, Camilla and Princess Anne were able to see her before she died. Fortuitously, the siblings were both already in Scotland, having carried out events in the country earlier in the week.

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But only Anne was present when their mother slipped away. Charles had briefly stepped away from her bedside to clear his head and had gone out to gather mushrooms. He received the news that she had died as he was driving back to Balmoral when his most senior aide took a call. Charles pulled over and was addressed for the first time as ‘Your Majesty’ – signalling he was now King.

Source: Mirror