The Platinum Jubilee celebrations of 2022 were both happy and sad for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. While the country was celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years as monarch, the Sussexes were going through a very personal moment: introducing their daughter, Lilibet, to her great-grandmother for the first time.
What should have been a purely happy occasion had a small but meaningful rejection mixed into it. During Lilibet’s first birthday celebrations in the UK, Harry and Meghan asked if a photographer could be there to take pictures of the important meeting between the two Lilibets. This might have seemed like a simple request, just wanting to save a special family memory, but Buckingham Palace quickly and firmly said no.
