And fired a “warning shot” to compel the couple into silence after they have issued a fusillade of criticisms about the House of Windsor, Express reports.
Charlotte Griffiths, the Mail on Sunday’s diary editor, has suggested that Harry is at fault for not explaining to Meghan Markle the expectation that the members of the royal family should stand impassively in the face of public criticism.
In response to a question about the Queen’s “warning shot” to Meghan Markle and Harry, Griffiths told Speaking to Palace Confidential on Mail+: “How can he not, when the Queen lays down the law you’ve got to be a bit rattled.”
She continued: “He does know how all of this works, Meghan maybe didn’t and he should have explained if not.”
He has been here for many years and if he’s suddenly forgotten this is how the game works and he knows that better than anyone.”
Griffiths then criticized Meghan Markle and Harry’s shake-rattle-and-roll PR strategy, saying: “You’ve got to think they’ve never quite learned the nuance of it, have they?”
Meghan and Harry have notoriously rattled the very foundation of the royal family with their recent media interviews, in particular, the sit-down with Oprah Winfrey in March in which they accused the clan of racist rot within.
“It’s been a couple of years now and they still don’t seem to get but they just don’t, they’re just so American about everything,” said Griffiths, of the, in fact, nearly 15 months that Meghan and Harry have spent living in California.
Express reports that Meghan and Harry are busy trying to shed their public image as “Ginge” and “Whinge.”
Royal expert Jonathan Sacerdoti insisted Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are aware of the negative reputation they are forming. During an interview with Express.co.uk, he remarked that, to some, the pair are being dubbed Ginge and Whinge. Mr Sacerdoti noted that it may suit the couple to keep some of their views and opinions away from the mass media.
Sacerdoti also suggested that as rattled as Meghan Markle and Harry might be by the Queen’s anger over their behavior, it’s possible that they have been reconciling with the Windsors behind closed doors.
That said, CBS’s Gayle King reported that in the immediate wake of the bombshell Oprah interview, Harry did speak with his family and that that conversation was “not productive.”
“Prince Harry is getting a reputation amongst some people for being a bit of a whinger,” Sacerdoti said of the British slang term for someone who complains all the time. “It is not for nothing, rather unkindly, that some people have dubbed them Ginge and Whinge.”
The Daily Mail reports that Meghan and Harry are so rattled by their personal PR crisis that they have hired an army of experts to help manage their public image.
The Duchess of Sussex has famously bemoaned the ‘men in grey suits’ – faceless courtiers who supposedly run Royal life. Now, though, Harry and Meghan have assembled their own team of backstairs advisers to help them win the transatlantic briefing war.
The latest PR dust-up has been over whether the Queen granted her blessing for Meghan Markle and Harry to name their second child, Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, after her.
Lilibet is the family pet name for the Queen.
The Sun reports that Meghan Markle and Harry have further reason to be rattled given that the investigation into her alleged bullying of her palace staffers is still carrying on three months after it launched.
In fact, the findings of the investigation could be delayed until 2022.
An independent law firm was expected to reveal the finer details in the annual Sovereign Grant report. But royal sources have confirmed the inquiry is “ongoing”, The Times reports.