Prince Harry said that he was left speechless by the late Queen's response when he asked for her blessing to marry Meghan Markle.
The Duke of Sussex admitted in his memoir Spare that the old Royal Family rule of asking the monarch for permission to get married frustrated him, arguing that the tradition "didn't make any sense". And it appeared that his reluctance to carry out the formality did not go unnoticed with his grandmother.
Harry wrote that he was nervous about posing the question and waited until the family were on a shooting trip in Sandringham in the hope that he would catch the Queen in a "good mood", The Mirror reports. The prince confessed that his mind was racing as the two had a moment alone, and recalled the exact words he used in his new book.
