The Queen 'told Harry she is delighted he found happiness with Meghan'

The Queen ‘told Prince Harry she is delighted he found happiness with Meghan but warned him to uphold his family’s values’ during call before it was announced the couple had filmed a tell-all interview with Oprah

‘Harmonious conversation’ between Queen and Harry happened before couple’s Oprah interview announced
Split from life as working royals followed a telephone conversation between Harry and his grandmother
Saw monarch tell her grandson she ‘was delighted he has found happiness’ and ‘only wants the best for him’
Harry stressed he is aware of his ‘duty to the family’ – and has promised ‘never do anything to embarrass them’

The Queen told Prince Harry she was ‘delighted he has found happiness’ with Meghan after the couple emigrated to Los Angeles from London – but warned he must uphold his family’s values as he begins life outside the Firm.

The ‘harmonious conversation’ between the Queen and her grandson happened over the phone before the Sussexes’ planned incendiary interview with Oprah Winfrey was publicly announced.

It also came ahead of Prince Harry’s appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden, in which the Duke insisted the couple’s shock move to California last year was about ‘stepping back rather than stepping down’ as royals.

The Sussexes were last week told they could not continue with ‘the responsibilities and duties that come with a life of public service’ and were stripped of their remaining patronages following their move to the US.

Their definitive split from life as working royals followed a telephone conversation between Harry and his grandmother – which saw the 94-year-old monarch tell her grandson she ‘was delighted he has found happiness’ and ‘only wants the best for him and his family’.

But Harry stressed he is aware of his ‘duty to the family’ – and has promised ‘never do anything to embarrass them’.

Palace insiders earlier revealed that it was Harry who pushed to restart talks over his and Meghan’s position early this year.

They claimed there was a ‘puzzling sense of urgency’ to his requests that perplexed palace officials – but it ‘all became clear’ when news of Meghan’s deal for a ‘tell all’ interview with Oprah Winfrey broke.

Prince Harry’s ‘unhelpful’ appearance on the Late Late Show today is said to have caused ‘disquiet’ at the palace – following an already-tense week in Sussex-Palace relations.

Minutes after Buckingham Palace released its statement confirming Meghan and Harry were no-longer working royals, the couple hit back, saying they would still ‘live a life of service’ and ‘service is universal’ in ‘barbed’ statement dubbed ‘horribly disrespectful’ to the elderly Queen.

The statement followed what was seen as an all-round positive conversation between Harry and his grandmother in the days prior.

A source told The Mirror: ‘Harry has spoken to the Queen, and she told him she was delighted he has found happiness. She only wants the best for him and his family.

They added: ‘He described it as being free, but he knows he has a duty to the family and he reiterated his promise to never do anything to embarrass them.

‘This is all about moving on, it was a very harmonious conversation between a caring grandmother and her grandson.’

The Queen (pictured) told Prince Harry she was ‘delighted he has found happiness’ with Meghan after the couple emigrated to Los Angeles from London – but warned he must uphold his family’s values as he begins life outside the Firm

The ‘harmonious conversation’ between the Queen and her grandson happened over the phone before the Sussexes’ planned incendiary interview with Oprah Winfrey was publicly announced. Pictured: Harry, Meghan and the Queen

In one extraordinary moment Harry raps the theme tune to The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air outside the LA mansion where it was filmed, and is egged on by James Corden to try to buy it

In a segment filmed before he and wife Meghan confirmed they will not be returning as working members of the royal family, Harry joined James Corden for a double-decker bus tour of Los Angeles where he broke his silence on quitting as a royal

The friends video call Meghan, who in response to Corden’s suggestion they buy the Fresh Prince’s house, quipped ‘I think we’ve done enough moving’ and reveals she calls her husband ‘Haz’

After Corden told him to pay the fare before jumping on the bus, Harry quipped ‘you know us royals, we don’t carry cash’, before opening up about his decision to quit the royal family saying: ‘We never walked away and as far as I’m concerned, whatever decisions are made on that side, I will never walk away’

Corden served him afternoon tea while pointing out celebrity homes, including what he claimed were those of Friends star David Schwimmer and Die Hard actor Bruce Willis

James and Harry then go to an assault course after Corden promises him something to remind him of his Army roots

At one point Harry crawls through the mud with ease as James Corden panics about following him through the big puddle

Harry lifts a heavy weight, chucks a spear and climbs a rope in the race with his friend James, who attended his wedding

The Duke of Sussex has revealed his son Archie’s first word was ‘crocodile’ and the Queen sent him a waffle maker for Christmas , during a chat with James Corden .

Prince Harry also told the comedian that the nightly routine for his ‘amazing’ 21-month-old son with wife Meghan Markle involves ‘tea’, a bath and a bedtime story.

And the Duke revealed in a segment for The Late Late Show that Archie has the ‘most amazing personality’ and is already putting four words together and singing songs.

Harry, 36, who now lives in a £11million mansion in California after stepping down as a senior royal last year, told Corden: ‘My son is now just over a year and a half.

‘He is hysterical, he’s got the most amazing personality. He’s already putting three, four words together, he’s already singing songs.’

Asked what Archie’s first word was, Harry said: ‘Crocodile, three syllables.’ And Corden replied: ‘Crocodile? That’s a big word.’

Harry went on: ‘Interesting, my grandmother asked us what Archie wanted for Christmas, and Meg said a waffle maker. She sent us a waffle maker for Archie.

‘Breakfast now, Meg makes up a beautiful organic mix. In the waffle maker, flip it, out it comes. He loves it. And now I have waffles for breakfast.

‘A bit of yoghurt, a bit of jam on top, I don’t know if that’s the right thing to do. A bit of berries, maybe, a bit of honey, a bit of syrup.’

But Corden pointed out: ‘Sorry, you’re glossing over the fact that I cannot for the life of me imagine the Queen ordering a waffle maker to be sent to Santa Barbara. I can’t get my head around…’

Harry responded: ‘I don’t even know how to comment on that. Archie wakes up in the morning and literally just goes: Waffle? Done.’

Asked about a normal night in, Harry said: ‘Depending on how the day’s been, how busy it’s been, we’ll do Archie’s tea, give him a bath, read him a book, put him down.

‘Go downstairs, Meg might cook a meal, might order a takeaway. Go upstairs, sit in bed, turn the TV on and watch some Jeopardy, maybe watch a little bit of Netflix.’

Prince Harry today claimed that he and Meghan Markle ‘never walked away’ from the royal family and he did ‘what any husband or father would do’ by emigrating to Los Angeles from London, declaring: ‘I had to get my family out there’ on The Late Late Show with James Corden.

In one extraordinary moment Harry raps the theme tune to The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air outside the mansion where it was filmed, before Corden video calls Meghan, who calls her husband ‘Haz’ and tells him not to buy it because she’s ‘done moving’. Harry then pops inside to use the toilet before the friends head off to complete a muddy army assault course together.

In a wide-ranging chat mostly carried out on an open-top bus, an off the leash Harry also reveals that he has had Zoom calls with Prince Philip and Queen, who sent Archie a waffle maker for Christmas, and describes his son as ‘hysterical’, claiming his first word was ‘crocodile’. He also says he knew Meghan was ‘the one’ after two dates, describing their relationship as ‘0-60 in two months’.

Prince Harry also decided open up to James about his relationship with Meghan, his son Archie and their decision to quit as frontline royals, saying the pressure of being in London was ‘destroying my mental health’, branding Britain’s media ‘toxic’.

Describing the couple’s decision he said: ‘It was never walking away. It was stepping back rather than stepping down. It was a really difficult environment, which I think a lot of people saw. So I did what any father or husband would do and thought: ‘How do I get my family out of there’. But we never walked away’.

And while the interview was carried out before the Queen stripped the Sussexes of their royal patronages last week, Harry appears to know what was coming and says: ‘My life is public service, so wherever I am in the world it’s going to be the same thing. As far as I’m concerned, whatever decisions are made on that side [in Britain], I will never walk away’.

Critics have questioned the timing of his TV appearance, released last night just as the Queen gave a rare public statement encouraging all Britons to have the Covid-19 jab. Others watching the film, where Harry complains about the media attention he received in the UK, urged him to ‘stop bl**dy whining’ and accused him of ‘re-writing history’ and ‘ignoring’ the multi-million dollar deals he has signed with Netflix and Spotify.

The royals have already been warned to ‘hide behind the sofa’ when the Sussexes’ incendiary interview with Oprah is broadcast on Sunday March 7, with experts saying the Late Show appearance suggests the 90-minute CBS show will focus much more on Meghan.

In the interview Harry also reveals:

He knew that Meghan was ‘the one’ on the second date said they ‘went from 0-60 in two months’ before going public in 2017;
He speaks about his ‘usual night in’ where the couple ‘do Archie’s tea, give him a bath, read him a book and put him down’. He adds: ‘Meg might order a meal or get a takeaway. Then we go up to bed, turn on the TV and watch Jeopardy or Netflix’.
Archie’s first word was ‘crocodile’ and the Queen sent him a waffle maker as a gift, which the family use most days using Meghan’s ‘organic mix’;
Harry admits he’s seen The Crown, shown on Netflix where the Sussexes will be making films, and defends it despite the negative light it paints of the Queen, his parents and other senior royals. He says: ‘It’s loosely based on the truth. Of course it’s not strictly accurate but it loosely it gives you an idea of that lifestyle and the pressures of putting duty and service above everything else and what can come from that’.
The Queen and Prince Philip have worked out how to use Zoom to speak to their grandson and great-grandson – but the Duke of Edinburgh , who is now in hospital, doesn’t know how to end the call so he just slams down the laptop’s lid;

Palace sources say the timing of Harry’s TV appearance is ‘unhelpful: and has caused ‘disquiet’ at the palace.

‘When the Queen speaks as she has done about the vaccine it is accepted that she has a clear field.

The Queen, who speaks to the PM Boris Johnson every week, is speaking out to give the vaccination programme added support.

Other members of the Royal Family, including Prince Charles and Prince William, are expected to follow suit.

But the fact that Harry, who was criticised for his ‘petulant’ and ‘rude’ swipe at the Queen when he said duty was ‘universal’ after the Megxit announcement, has appeared on TV talking about his private life just when the Queen made an historic intervention on Covid-19 shows the lack of coordination.

One senior source said, ‘This blurring of the lines doesn’t help anyone. When the Queen speaks like this it is her message that should be heard without other distractions. This lack of coordination is unhelpful.’

The Late Show appearance came hours after the Queen has made a historic intervention in the coronavirus vaccination drive, suggesting it is selfish not to have the jab.

In a video call with NHS officials in charge of the rollout, she encouraged those with doubts to ‘think about other people rather than themselves’.

The 94-year-old monarch said her jab last month ‘didn’t hurt at all’ and had made her ‘feel protected’. Likening Covid to a plague, she said it was remarkable how quickly the inoculation programme had been put into action, helping ‘so many people’.

A senior royal source said: ‘It is a passionately held belief that people need to get out there [and get vaccinated] – this is important.’

Critics say Harry’s appearance will water down her message.

Royal expert Robert Jobson told BBC Breakfast: ‘Well he seems in a very chirpy mood, very happy. All this talk about him being unhappy in LA doesn’t seem to be true. He’s talking candidly and James Corden’s asking the right questions.

‘But unfortunately, everything’s in timing, isn’t it? Just on the day that the queen has issued a very, very important message about the whole of the nation getting the jab, and her, and she feels it’s people’s duty to go and get it, that message has sort of been blurred a little bit again by Harry, the man who wants a private life, talking about his private life again.

‘I’m sure there’s just a lack of co-ordination here, but that’s half of the problem I think. The reality is I’m sure the Royal Family will be speaking about the vaccination going forward, giving a clear message and duty they’ve got, and Harry seems hell bent talking about his private life.

‘Look, move on, you’ve got what you want, you’ve moved away to LA, but then you can’t have your cake and eat it.

‘You can’t be sitting there clashing with the Queen, when the Queen says something very important, and she speaks only rarely, it’s a very significant thing that she’s saying in co-ordination, I’m sure, with Boris Johnson and the Government. She needs a clear field.

‘To be fair to Harry, this is probably an accident the way it’s happened, but yet again it happens, clashes with the Queen, and as a result her message will be diluted.’

Royal photographer Arthur Edwards, who has known Harry since he was a child, told ITV’s Good Morning Britain he was ‘surprised’ by the prince saying he’d faced a ‘toxic’ time with the media, saying he had a good relationship with him until Meghan arrived.

Prince Harry defends The Crown and says it captures the ‘pressure’ faced by royals to ‘put duty and service above everything’ – and says he’d like Damian Lewis to play him on screen

Emma Corrin and Josh O’Connor as Princess Diana and Prince Charles in series four of Netflix royal drama The Crown

Prince Harry has defended Netflix ‘s The Crown, saying it gives an ‘idea’ of the pressures faced by members of the Royal Family.

The Duke of Sussex, 36, gave his seal of approval to the Netflix show despite it coming under fire over its unflattering portrayal of the royals, including the Queen and Prince Charles .

Speaking on The Late Late Show with James Corden , Harry said The Crown is ‘fictional’ but is ‘loosely based on the truth’ and captures the feeling of being expected to put ‘duty and service above family and everything else’.

Harry and wife Meghan Markle, 39, last year signed a content deal with Netflix, the creators of The Crown, thought to be worth £100million.

Harry added he would like Homeland actor Damian Lewis to play him if his character ever appears on the show as an adult.

‘They don’t pretend to be news, it’s fictional,’ Harry said of The Crown. ‘But it’s loosely based on the truth.

‘Of course it’s not strictly accurate but it loosely it gives you a rough idea of that lifestyle and the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else and what can come from that.

‘I’m way more comfortable about The Crown than the stories I see written about my family, my wife or myself. Because it’s the difference between that’s [the fact] obviously fiction, take it how you will – but this is reported on as fact because you’re supposedly news.’

‘I don’t know where ‘toxic’ has come from,’ he said.

‘When I worked with him all those years, he engaged with the media – we used to have a drink, on every tour we’d go to the pub and he used to get everything off his chest and you’d get everything off your chest.

‘It’s only when he met Meghan that stopped.

‘He never interacted with us again.’

The 17-minute film begins with James Corden pulling up outside Harry’s mansion in an open -top bus, which Harry admits he’s never been on.

After Corden told him to pay the fare before jumping on the bus, Harry quipped ‘you know us royals, we don’t carry cash’ and said it was his first time on an open-top bus because ‘we’re not really allowed to’.

Once settled in on the top deck,, the Duke of Sussex speaks about family life, revealing that son Archie’s first word was ‘crocodile’ and the Queen gave the one-year-old a waffle maker for Christmas.

Corden served him afternoon tea while pointing out celebrity homes, including what he claimed were those of Friends star David Schwimmer and Die Hard actor Bruce Willis.

But moments later the bus braked heavily and the dinner wagon holding the tea jolted into Prince Harry – who swore in shock – before he spat his drink out while laughing.

During a visit to the house that featured on 1990s sitcom The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, Harry rapped the famous theme song, which was originally performed by Will Smith.

Corden tried to convince him to buy the sprawling mansion before Harry went inside to use the bathroom.

They then video called Meghan, who in response to Corden’s suggestion they buy the house, quipped ‘I think we’ve done enough moving’.

She then asked ‘Haz’ how his tour of Los Angeles was going but he called Corden ‘the worst tour guide in LA’.

Back on board the buss Harry addressed the controversy over The Crown’s portrayal of his family’s history and defended the Netflix regal drama, saying it does not ‘pretend to be news’.

He said both the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh can use Zoom and have seen Archie ‘running around’ in California.

In a segment for The Late Late Show, filmed before he and the Duchess of Sussex confirmed they will not be returning as working members of the royal family, Harry joined TV host Corden for a double-decker bus tour of Los Angeles.

Asked by Corden how he sees his life after lockdown, Harry, 36, said: ‘My life is always going to be about public service and Meghan signed up to that.’

On the decision to walk away from the royal family, he said it ‘was never walking away, it was stepping back rather than stepping down’.

He added that it was a ‘really difficult environment’ and criticised the press, saying it was ‘destroying my mental health’.

Harry said he needed to move his family away but insisted: ‘I will never walk away, I will always be contributing. My life is public service.’

The film begins with Harry waiting on the kerb as the open top bus pulls up outside his mansion with James Corden on the top deck

Harry enjoys tea on the top deck until the bus breaks hard, showering him with food and drink, leaving James with his head in his hands

Harry then opens up about leaving Britain and quitting as frontline royals, saying he was doing it to protect his family

The friends then go to the mansion used in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, where Harry raps and is then encouraged to buy it so he can be the Prince of Bel Air

In a bid to encourage Harry to ‘make an offer’, he grabs Harry’s iPhone and calls Meghan on FaceTime

Meghan looks pleased to see their friend, but says he shouldn’t make an offer because she’s ‘done moving’

Harry then goes into the mansion to use the loo, saying ‘I’ve had a Covid test, popping his head out of the window and saying: ‘If I’m not back in ten minutes come and get me’

The pair crawl under wire through the mud, with the slower James Corden needing encouragement from the royal

They then sprint to the end but Harry initially let James run past him but he then sprinted past him to win

Palace ‘disquiet’ at timing of Harry’s TV appearance as Queen speaks out to support Covid vaccine and Prince Philip lies in a hospital bed

Palace sources say the timing of Harry’s TV appearance is ‘unhelpful: and has caused ‘disquiet’ at Buckingham Palace.

One said: ‘When the Queen speaks as she has done about the vaccine it is accepted that she has a clear field.’

The Queen, who speaks to the PM Boris Johnson every week, is speaking out to give the vaccination programme added support.

Other members of the Royal Family, including Prince Charles and Prince William, are expected to follow suit.

One senior source said: ‘This blurring of the lines doesn’t help anyone. When the Queen speaks like this it is her message that should be heard without other distractions. This lack of coordination is unhelpful.’

Royal expert Phil Dampier said: ‘As The Queen urges us to think of others, Prince Harry prances about in LA and makes the absurd claim that he hasn’t walked away from the royals. What planet is he on? Hollywood I suppose.’

Another royal commentator, Robert Jobson, added: ‘The Queen’s important message to the nation about getting the Covid-19 vaccination now clashes with revelations that Prince Harry has filmed another chat about his personal life with James Cordon on US TV. It’s not about content but the poor timing. Coordination would help.’

The duke also spoke about his early relationship with Meghan, 39.

He said dating for him or any member of the royal family is ‘flipped upside down’, telling Corden that early dates take place at home and only when they are a couple do they venture out in public.

‘We got to spend an enormous amount of time just the two of us,’ he said of his early relationship with Meghan. ‘There were no distractions, and that was great, it was an amazing thing. We went from zero to 60 in the first two months.’

Asked what a ‘regular night in’ for the couple is like, Harry said they may make Archie’s tea, give him a bath and read him a book before he and Meghan spend time together.

He said they may watch game show Jeopardy! or something on Netflix.

Asked what he thinks about The Crown, Harry replied: ‘They don’t pretend to be news, it’s fictional but it’s loosely based on the truth.

‘Of course it’s not strictly accurate, but, loosely, it gives you a rough idea about what that lifestyle, what the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else, what can come from that.

‘I am way more comfortable with The Crown than I am seeing the stories written about my family, or my wife or myself.’

He said The Crown is ‘obviously fiction’ whereas he has a ‘real issue’ with some of the stories written about him.

Harry joked that he would want Homeland star Damian Lewis to play him.

The segment opened with Corden telling the duke to pay the fare before jumping on the bus. Harry quipped: ‘You know us royals – we don’t carry cash.’

Corden served him afternoon tea while pointing out celebrity homes, including what he claimed were those of Friends star David Schwimmer and Die Hard actor Bruce Willis.

During a visit to the house that featured in 1990s sitcom The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, Harry rapped the famous theme song, which was originally performed by Will Smith.

Corden tried to convince him to buy the sprawling mansion before the duke went inside to use the bathroom.

The pair then video-called Meghan, who, in response to Corden’s suggestion they buy the house, joked: ‘I think we’ve done enough moving.’

She then asked ‘Haz’ how his tour of Los Angeles was going, and he said Corden was ‘the worst tour guide in LA’.

Harry and a reluctant Corden also tackled an assault course, with the TV host complaining about getting dirty.

Harry and Meghan will appear in a US primetime TV interview with Oprah Winfrey, which is set to be broadcast on March 7.

The couple are expected to discuss their life in America.

Prince Harry reveals Archie’s first word was ‘crocodile’, the Queen sent the toddler a waffle maker for Christmas and that his nightly routine involves ‘tea’, a bath and a bedtime story

The Duke of Sussex has revealed his son Archie’s first word was ‘crocodile’ and the Queen sent him a waffle maker for Christmas, during a chat with James Corden.

Prince Harry also told the comedian that the nightly routine for his ‘hysterical’ 21-month-old son with wife Meghan Markle involves ‘tea’, a bath and a bedtime story.

And the Duke revealed in a segment for The Late Late Show that Archie has the ‘most amazing personality’ and is already putting four words together and singing songs.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex with their son Archie while in Cape Town in September 2019

Harry (right) appears on The Late Late Show with James Corden (left), which came out today

Harry, who now lives in a £11million mansion in California after stepping down as a senior royal last year, told Corden: ‘My son is now just over a year and a half.