The Queen close last minute requests from Meghan and Harry for more prominent places at their only public appearance over the Platinum Jubilee weekend, according to a royal biographer. Tom Bower told an upcoming episode of the Mirror’s Pod Save the Queen podcast that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were trying to sit closer to senior royals at the service of thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral. Harry and Meghan reportedly spotted the arrangement of the chairs, which made them look stupid alongside non-working royals, Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank.
Instead, they tried to change seats at the last minute to sit closer to Prince Charles and William, in an effort to get more attention.
However, according to Bower, the attempt was blocked by the Queen herself.
Bower recently published the bombshell book Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors.
Harry, who ended up sitting far from the senior royals, did not speak to his brother William during the event.
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Bower told the royal podcast: “I was told, unfortunately too late for the book, that they were supposed to come to Wellington Barracks to board the bus set up for the underage royals to go to St Paul’s to go for the anniversary service.
“They were deliberately late so that the bus was gone and they could make a grand entrance from a car so they could be seen on the stairs, which Netflix clearly needed.
“And as they walked down the aisle, they got to the seats in the row they were assigned, and I heard that six other people on this side of the aisle asked if they could go down so they could join the aisle itself. could sit.
“And the messenger apparently said to them ‘you can’t, you’re on seats eight or nine’ or whatever it was and Harry said ‘why?’