Overview
- Hugo Vickers’ biography, due in the UK on April 8, reports the Queen declined private phone talks with Prince Harry after 2020.
- He writes that she asked a lady-in-waiting to stay during calls to provide support and to keep a record of what was said.
- A palace insider quoted in the coverage says her replies were often monosyllabic, with one-word answers like “yes” or “no.”
- The book also recounts that during the June 2022 Platinum Jubilee, she met Harry, Meghan, and Lilibet with a staffer present and rejected a request for a photographer.
- Buckingham Palace has not commented on the claims, which Vickers links to strain from the couple’s step back, the Oprah interview, and Harry’s memoir.