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Never forget that King Charles\u2019s first act as monarch was calling Prince Harry and telling him that Meghan isn\u2019t part of the family, that she was not welcome at Balmoral, and that Harry could not have his wife beside him on the day QEII passed away. The first acts of Charles\u2019s reign was a wall-to-wall smear job on Harry and Meghan for having the audacity to simply want to be together on a painful day of mourning. As we come up on QEII\u2019s death-anniversary, there are a lot of pieces about what really happened in the chaos of those first days of Charles\u2019s reign. I\u2019m so glad that Harry wrote about it in Spare <\/em>too, because it means that \u201croyal sources\u201d can\u2019t lie about what Harry did and said during that hellish two-week hostage situation. Well, Tom Sykes at the Daily Beast has a piece about what happened on that day one year ago, and a huge chunk of the article is devoted to the Sussex drama. Again, seemingly everyone in the family was more focused on snubbing, marginalizing and smearing the Sussexes rather than mourning the queen.<\/p>\n Buckingham Palace announced at 12.50pm that William, Andrew, Edward and Sophie were on their way to Scotland. Things should have now at moved at dizzying speed, with a military jet laid on to whisk the royal party to Scotland reportedly due to take off at 1:30pm. In the event, however, it didn\u2019t take off until 2:40pm. A military source has told The Daily Beast that the delay was caused by a row within the family, who were outraged by a suggestion by Harry that he, and, controversially, Meghan could be given a spot on the plane.<\/p>\n While the Netflix show Harry & Meghan had not yet screened, and Harry\u2019s memoir had not been published, relations were still very bad between the couple and the family, particularly William. Harry said in his memoir that he texted William, asking if he and Meghan could get a lift with him to Scotland.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was insane,\u201d a friend of William\u2019s told The Daily Beast. \u201cThey had just spent two years slagging off the entire family and calling them racists. Harry had completely betrayed William, and he was holding the memoir [published after the queen\u2019s death] and the Netflix series over them as well. They hadn\u2019t exchanged a cordial word in months. And then he is texting him, saying, \u2018Can we get a lift with you.\u2019 I think if it had just been Harry, maybe a way could have been found. But Meghan too? Er, no thanks.\u201d<\/p>\n What Harry and Meghan did next both infuriated the royals and brought matters swiftly to a head: they told their team to publicly announce not only that they would be missing the WellChild Awards, but that they were both going to Balmoral. A former palace staffer told The Daily Beast: \u201cYou need an invite to go to Balmoral at any time, let alone a moment of massive constitutional upheaval. They knew Meghan wasn\u2019t wanted. No-one had replied to their messages, no-one had invited her to come. Kate, who had known the queen for decades, wouldn\u2019t have dreamed of being there at her deathbed. But for some reason, Meghan wanted to insert herself into it, so they tried to bounce the [future] king into accepting it by publicly announcing it.\u201d<\/p>\n If that was the Sussexes\u2019 plan, it didn\u2019t work. The moment he heard Harry and Meghan\u2019s statement, Charles knew he had to put his foot down, and he called Harry and told him not to bring Meghan. Harry described the sequence of events in his book: \u201cWe told our team to confirm: we\u2019d be missing the WellChildAwards and hurrying up to Scotland. Then came another call from Pa. He said I was welcome at Balmoral, but he didn\u2019t want \u2026 her. He started to lay out his reason, which was nonsensical, and disrespectful, and I wasn\u2019t having it. Don\u2019t ever speak about my wife that way. He stammered, apologetic, saying he simply didn\u2019t want a lot of people around. No other wives were coming. Kate wasn\u2019t coming, he said, therefore Meg shouldn\u2019t. Then that\u2019s all you needed to say.\u201d<\/p>\n In Harry\u2019s telling, by the time this unseemly argument with his father concluded, it was \u201cmid-afternoon,\u201d he hadn\u2019t heard from William, who he had texted looking for a lift, and so he had to charter a private plane. Intriguingly, however, a military source told The Daily Beast that the RAF jet\u2014carrying William, Edward, Sophie and Andrew\u2014sat on the tarmac at Northolt airport for up to an hour before taking off at 2:40pm. The source said that they believed the delay was due to uncertainty about whether Harry was expected on the plane.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n [From The Daily Beast]<\/p>\n \u201cI think if it had just been Harry, maybe a way could have been found. But Meghan too? Er, no thanks.\u201d \u201cThey knew Meghan wasn\u2019t wanted\u2026But for some reason, Meghan wanted to insert herself into it.\u201d<\/em> This is still utterly disgusting and racist. In QEII\u2019s final minutes on this earth, her heirs were solely focused on being too racist to accept Harry\u2019s Black wife in Scotland. They were focused on isolating Harry, as they have been for years, on punishing him and otherizing him for marrying Meghan and loving Meghan. I\u2019ve said this before, but the Windsors really don\u2019t understand the concept of \u201cyou can have disagreements within a family and still put aside your differences to come together for the big events.\u201d<\/em> What should have been a mournful, grief-stricken time for the family to simply put their differences aside for a week became an exercise in dehumanizing, humiliating, degrading and marginalizing the Sussexes by any means necessary.<\/p>\n Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.<\/small><\/p>\n\n
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