Trump: Queen Was “Stunned” by Meghan and Harry’s Desertion of Duty

In a remarkable new book, the president reveals the late Queen’s private pain over Harry and Meghan — and a string of other extraordinary behind-the-scenes royal revelations

Donald Trump has reopened his war with the Sussexes after saying that the late Queen Elizabeth II was left deeply wounded by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s public attacks on the monarchy, revealing that he repeatedly pressed her on the subject, only to be met with her legendary diplomatic composure.

“I asked her about it constantly,” Trump told the journalist Susan Page. “I’d say, ‘Come on, tell me.’ ‘No, no. It’s very nice.’ Everybody was nice. She liked everybody.”

But the president said he saw through the deflection. “I couldn’t get her to say it. I’m good at that, too,” he said. “She would always say, ‘No, no, would be lovely, lovely.’ But it wasn’t lovely, and I think it hurt her. I really think it hurt her. It was tremendous dissension, and I just don’t think they treated her with the respect that she should have, frankly.”