After Prince Harry left the royal family in 2020, Queen Elizabeth II refused to answer his phone calls unless someone else was present. Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, gave a sensational interview to Oprah Winfrey in 2021 and began work on his memoir, “The Spare.” Longtime royal friend Vickers revealed in his book that communication between his grandson and grandmother was strained after that.

Whenever Prince Harry called his grandmother, she asked her lady-in-waiting to stay with her and record the conversation. It is impossible to overstate the suffering the Sussexes caused the Queen in the final years of her life, he added, speaking of Harry and Meghan, in his new book, Queen Elizabeth II: A Personal History.

Harry, 41, moved his family to California in 2020 after Elizabeth II denied him partial royal duties.

According to Page Six, after Harry and Meghan moved to Montecito, the Queen effectively cut off their communication.

There were a lot of one-word answers: “yes” and “no,” the source said at the palace.

Vickers also writes that the late monarch, who died in September 2022, refused to meet the couple in person when they brought their daughter, Princess Lilibet, to meet her for the first time during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June 2022.

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