Queen ‘thought Meghan’s wedding dress was too white for a divorcee’

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The late Queen thought that the Duchess of Sussex’s wedding dress was “too white” as a result of she had been married earlier than she met Prince Harry, a new ebook has claimed.

Ingrid Seward, the previous editor-in-chief of Majesty journal, wrote in her ebook My Mother and I that Elizabeth II solely revealed her opinion to her closest confidantes.

The Queen’s cousin Lady Elizabeth Anson is claimed to have been amongst these confidantes and reportedly claimed the monarch thought the dress was improper for a divorcee.

“In the monarch’s view, it was not appropriate for a divorcee getting remarried in church to look quite so flamboyantly virginal,” Seward wrote in an extract of the ebook.

The ebook additionally experiences that the late Prince Philip nicknamed the Duchess of Sussex “DoW” as a result of she reminded him of the Duchess of Windsor.

The divorcee Wallis Simpson’s frowned-upon relationship with Edward VIII induced a disaster within the monarchy within the twentieth century, resulting in his abdication of the throne.

Meghan was beforehand married to movie producer Trevor Engleson however they divorced 4 years earlier than she married Harry in 2018.

The late Queen was additionally not comfy with Prince Charles standing in for Meghan’s father to stroll her down the aisle and was involved about 96-year-old Philip’s choice to stroll with out a stick in the course of the wedding, in keeping with the extract of the ebook revealed within the Daily Mail.

Queen Elizabeth II was additionally reportedly upset at Harry’s perspective in the course of the wedding preparations, and that their relationship was “quite badly damaged by it all”, a rupture that worsened when Harry determined to surrender being a working royal.

It comes as a senior Netflix govt introduced the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have “a bunch” of latest initiatives in growth on the streaming large.

Harry and Meghan signed a five-year take care of Netflix that’s estimated to be value $100m (roughly £78m) in 2020, after they resigned as senior members of the royal household and relocated to the US.

Under the deal, the couple have launched a six-part collection titled Harry & Meghan about their relationship, marriage, and choice to depart the UK and transfer to Los Angeles.