By Molly Claire Goddard
12:45pm PDT, Oct 13, 2025
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Queen Elizabeth II gave an interesting response when
Prince Harry asked her for permission to propose to
Meghan Markle.
Keep reading to see what she had to say…MORE:
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In his memoir, Spare, Prince Harry recalled the moment he informed Queen Elizabeth II that he wanted to marry Meghan Markle. "I've been told that I have to ask your permission before I can propose," he said to his grandmother, who responded, "Well then, I suppose I have to say yes."
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Prince Harry was flustered by Queen Elizabeth II's response. "I didn't get it. Was she being sarcastic? Ironic? Deliberately cryptic? Was she indulging in a bit of wordplay?" he wrote. "I'd never known granny to do any wordplay and this would be a surpassingly bizarre moment, not to mention widely inconvenient, for her to start, but maybe she just saw the chance to play off my unfortunate use of the word 'have' and couldn't resist."
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle got engaged in late 2017. "I did pop a bottle of champagne while she was roasting a chicken and that kind of slightly gave the game away," the Duke of Sussex said of the proposal. "She was like, 'You never drink champagne, what's the occasion?' And I was like, 'I don't know, I just had it like, lying around.'"
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According to an insider, Queen Elizabeth II
called Meghan Markle "evil" for influencing Prince Harry to leave the royal family. "It was out of character for the [late] Queen to use such a word as 'evil' to describe Meghan, but she saw straight through her. It was a startling sentence to hear from the most forgiving woman on earth," the source said.
