Prince Harry's stern eight-word reply when King Charles banned Meghan Markle from seeing Queen

Prince Harry was not happy when King Charles repotedly said Meghan Markle could not see the late Queen before her death. The Duke of Sussex has had a fractured relationship with his family in recent years.

In his 2023 memoir Spare, Harry spoke about the death of his grandmother Queen Elizabeth on September 8, 2022. He told how he was invited to Balmoral, where the late Queen was staying, so he could say his goodbyes.

But the prince was said to have been told he had to leave Meghan behind. In his memoir, Harry, 40, said: "He said I was welcome at Balmoral, but he didn't want... her. He started to lay out his reason, which was nonsensical, and disrespectful, and I wasn't having it."

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Harry was unhappy, telling his father: "Don't ever speak about my wife that way." Harry continued: "He stammered, apologetic, saying he simply didn't want a lot of people around.

"No other wives were coming, Kate wasn't coming, he said, therefore Meg shouldn't." Prince Harry said he found it difficult getting to Balmoral and had little communication with other members of the Royal Family, who were also travelling there to see the Queen.

But it meant Harry had to find his own way to Scotland - and by the time he arrived, the Queen had died. He wrote: "When the plane started to descend I saw that my phone lit up.

"It was a message from Meg "Call me when you get this". I looked at the BBC website. My grandmother had died. My father was King."

Mum-of-two Meghan was invited to attend the funeral, along with other members of the Royal Family. It was the last time she was seen in the UK, while Harry has visited alone a number of times since the Queen's death.