Overview
- Robert Hardman’s forthcoming biography, citing palace insiders, recounts a heated exchange between Prince Harry and the Queen’s dresser Angela Kelly over access to Meghan Markle’s chosen tiara.
- The insiders say Queen Elizabeth supported Kelly’s handling of the jewel and was unhappy with urgent demands for it, quoting her reported remark, “It’s not a toy.”
- Key details remain in dispute, with Harry writing in Spare that he was invited to the tiara selection, while staff quoted by Hardman say he was not.
- Both accounts describe strict protocol for royal jewels, with Kelly telling the couple the tiara could not leave Buckingham Palace without formal security arrangements.
- The episode ends with a settled fact: Meghan wore Queen Mary’s Diamond Bandeau at the 2018 wedding, and there is no new official palace comment on the revived accounts.