How did Queen Elizabeth feel about Meghan Markle? What late monarch's cousin said
In the interview, Anson detailed the late Queen's anger over the 'Megxit' row and her 'sad' feelings over the alleged pre-wedding rift with her grandson.
Anson said that her cousin made an 'unprecedented gesture' towards Meghan before things went wrong between them.
Talking about Harry and Meghan's May 2018 wedding, she recalled that the Duke of Sussex wrote to her and said "they were going another way.'
'He said, 'I am close to my grandmother, and she is content with this'," Anson said, while referencing that they were planning their own wedding.
But when she met her cousin, she felt that the Queen's feelings were contradictory to Harry's remarks.
'When I spoke with the queen, she said she is not at all content, Meghan could turn into nothing but trouble. She sees things in a different way," The Times quoted Anson as saying.
Anson went on to claim that Queen Elizabeth was 'dismayed' after Harry and Meghan made the decision to ask the Archbishop of Canterbury to perform the ceremony in St George's Chapel, since they did not take permission from the Dean of Windsor first.
According to Anson, this caused a major rift between Harry and his grandmother. She stated that the event was the Dean of Windsor's jurisdiction on the religious side, adding that Harry had "blown" the relationship with his grandmother.
The Queen told Anson that she was "really upset" with it. Post the disagreement, her feelings changed on Harry's wife, said Anson, adding that the Queen told her that 'the jury is out on whether she likes Meghan".
Anson felt that Harry is "besotted and weak about women". She added that things were "not working well" between Meghan and Prince William as well as his wife Kate Middleton.
They announced their decision to "step back as 'senior' members" of the British royal family in January 2020.
The couple tied the knot in May 2018.
They have shifted from London to Montecito, California.
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