Harry and Meghan felt snubbed after the Queen did broadcast to the nation alongside family snaps but WITHOUT the pair’s picture on her desk
- The couple considered it a snub that their picture was absent from the desk
- Photographs of the Duke and Duchess had featured in Queen’s address in 2018
- Book quotes Palace sources as saying they wanted to illustrate line of succession
Harry and Meghan were dismayed when no photograph of them and their son Archie was displayed during the Queen’s Christmas speech last year.
According to Finding Freedom, the couple considered it a snub that their picture was absent from the desk in the Green Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace from where the Monarch give her traditional annual address.
Already feeling they ‘had long been sidelined by the institution and were not a fundamental part of its future’, the couple considered the episode to be ‘yet another sign that they needed to consider their own path’, according to the book’s authors.
According to Finding Freedom, the couple considered it a snub that their picture was absent from the desk in the Green Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace from where the Monarch give her traditional annual address
Photographs of the Duke and Duchess had featured in the Queen’s address in 2018, but she opted last year to display only images of her father King George VI, Prince Charles and Camilla and a family shot of the Cambridges.
The book quotes Palace sources as saying they wanted to illustrate the line of succession.
The speech did, however, include footage of the Queen and Prince Philip meeting Archie for the first time as Harry, Meghan and Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, looked on.
The Queen remarked: ‘I have been delighted to welcome our eighth great-grandchild.’
Photographs of the Duke and Duchess had featured in the Queen’s address in 2018
The couple considered the episode to be ‘yet another sign that they needed to consider their own path’