A royal expert believes Prince Harry displayed 'incredible cheek' if he asked the Queen for an official photo with Lilibet amid her four-day Platinum Jubilee celebrations and health problems.
According to reports, the Sussexes are said to have wanted their own photographer to capture Her Majesty meeting her great-granddaughter for the first time at Windsor, but a source admitted they were told "no chance" because it was a private moment.
The photographer has not been identified. Their friend Misan Harriman has regularly photographed the Sussexes and even credits himself with getting them together in 2016.
He also took the picture of their daughter on the lawn at Frogmore Cottage as she turned one last Saturday (June 4).
Angela Levin, Harry ’s biographer, told Mail Online : "It is an incredible cheek. It is too incredible for words to have put pressure on his grandmother when she’s struggling to move during four days of celebrations where huge demands are being put on her. It’s even more of a strain when you are 96. The Jubilee is her last efforts as monarch, and yet Harry asks for time with her when she can’t say no."
Harry and Meghan did not spend any private time with Prince William, Kate, George, Charlotte and Louis during the Jubilee, according to Page Six, and William's family is unlikely to have met Lilibet at all. An insider said the relationship between the brothers remains 'fraught' after the Sussexes' transatlantic "truth bombs" about the Royal Family on Oprah and friendly podcasts in the US.
However, Lilibet met Her Majesty "on more than one occasion" and Prince Charles and Camilla also spent some time with the couple before they returned to California according to Harry and Meghan's friend Omid Scobie.
Ms Levin said: "They should have stayed for a few days afterwards, spent time with the Queen after her duties had finished, tried to make things right with William. They would have had the time – but they chose to rush in and rush out."
Earlier Harry and Meghan had given the world a rare glimpse of Lilibet. The Sussexes released a picture taken as the little girl – named in tribute to the Queen, whose childhood nickname was Lilibet – in the grounds of Frogmore Cottage where she celebrated her first birthday at Windsor on Saturday with birthday cake, balloons, party games and picnic snacks.
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