Overview

• Anson’s notes record the Queen’s remark “but it’s my house – and I’m paying for it” when Harry and Meghan proposed hosting their ceremony at Windsor Castle.
• The memoir excerpts describe the Queen’s annoyance that the couple bypassed the Dean of Windsor by asking the Archbishop of Canterbury to officiate the service at St George’s Chapel.
• The Queen is portrayed criticizing Harry and Meghan for removing relatives from their guest list in favor of celebrities who barely knew the royal family.
• Sally Bedell Smith’s account quotes the Queen privately calling Meghan’s decision to announce her pregnancy on her wedding day “rude.”
• These revelations stem from Lady Elizabeth Anson’s posthumous notes and biographer Sally Bedell Smith’s interviews and have not been verified by Buckingham Palace.