Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been blasted following the publication of a new royal book, which claims the late Queen Elizabeth was left furious at the couple’s choice of name for their daughter

Meghan Markle had “copyrighted” the name Lilibet before her daughter’s birth, according to a royal expert. The same expert criticized Prince Harry and Meghan Markle after allegations in a new royal book that Queen Elizabeth was furious after they claimed she had given them permission to name their baby daughter Lilibet.

The late monarch first aquired the nickname Lilibet when she was a toddler and couldn’t pronounce her own name properly. Her grandfather, King George V, would call her Lilibet, imitating her attempts to say Elizabeth, and the name stuck.

In Charles III: New King, New Court, The Inside Story by Robert Hardman, parts of which have been serialised by the Daily Mail, it reads: “One [aide] privately recalled that Elizabeth II had been ‘as angry as I’d ever seen her’ in 2021 after the Sussexes announced that she had given them her blessing to name their baby daughter ‘Lilibet’, the Queen’s childhood nickname.”

At the time, reports suggested that the late Queen was consulted about the name but felt unable to refuse, while the BBC reported that a Palace source alleged the monarch was not asked by the Sussexes if they could use the name.

The late monarch was left furious over claims that she had given permission for the name to be used (Image: (Image: Getty))
The Sussexes’s lawyers reportedly sent legal letters to the BBC and other publishers at the time, claiming the allegation was false and defamatory, while their spokesperson insisted they had spoken to the late monarch.

Hardman claims that Queen Elizabeth allegedly expressed to Palace aides, reports the Express: “I don’t own the palaces or the paintings, only my name, and now they’ve taken that.”

Royal biographer Angela Levin criticised the couple for leaving the late Queen ‘furious’ and labelled their actions as “appalling”. Speaking to GB News, she said: “That’s an incredibly sad comment, I think one of the reasons she felt that way was because it was discovered that Meghan, even before Lilibet was born, had taken out the names officially so that she could use them to buy things and to identify them.”

Eamonn Holmes, the presenter, asked: “What do you mean? They’d copyrighted the name?”

To which Levin responded: “Yes.”

She further added that she found it a “very disrespectful” move by Harry and Meghan and stated: “It’s Meghan trying to get her own back because she hated the fact that she wasn’t treated as she felt she should have been in the Royal Family.”