Prince Harry was "persistent" in his desire for a professional photo of his daughter Lilibet with his grandmother the late Queen, a royal expert has claimed.
Harry and wife Meghan Markle brought their children three-year Archie and one-year-old Lilibet to the UK from their home in California in June for the monarch's Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
During the trip, the Queen got to meet her 11th great-granchild and namesake Lilibet for the first time and was reunited with Archie after not seeing him for several years.
It was at this meeting that both Harry and Meghan were thought to be keen to get an official snap of great-grandmother and great-grandchild.
But reports have suggested this request was denied by the Queen as she had had a bloodshot eye at the time.
And now writing in the Telegraph, royal expert Camilla Tominey claims Harry was "persistent" in wanting a photo to be taken.
She says: "When the couple made another beeline for Windsor Castle, travelling straight there after landing at Farnborough Airport, she refused their request to have professional photographs taken with Archie, three, and her namesake Lilibet, one.
"Claiming she had a bloodshot eye, she adroitly denied the Sussexes the photo opportunity they craved.
"Harry was 'persistent', according to those party to the meeting, expressing a desire to get an official snap of the two Lilibets together at some point in the future. But of course, it was never to be. She died three months later."
It comes as Harry has spoken of a "dirty game" where there is "leaking" and "planting of stories" in a new trailer for his upcoming Netflix docuseries which will debut this week.
In the one-minute teaser for the six-part Harry & Meghan series, he also discusses the "pain and suffering" of women marrying into the royal family.
The streaming giant confirmed volume one will launch on Thursday (December 8) – exactly three months after the death of the Queen – with the second volume to be released on December 15.
The trailer opens with Harry saying: "It’s really hard to look back on it now and go 'What on earth happened?'"
As videos play of the couple receiving rapturous applause while conducting royal duties as well as announcing their engagement and their wedding in 2018, a news clip voiceover by Piers Morgan says: "She's becoming a royal rock star".
It cuts to Meghan saying "and then" before snapping her fingers with Harry adding: "Everything changed".
A photo of the royal family at the Trooping the Colour in 2019 is shown while Harry continues his narration, saying: “There’s a hierarchy of the family, you know, there’s leaking, but there’s also planting of stories. It’s a dirty game.”
Clips of paparazzi photographing the couple are then paralleled alongside old footage of Harry’s mother, Princess Diana being followed by the media as he adds: "The pain and suffering of women marrying into this institution, this feeding frenzy. I was terrified, I didn't want history to repeat itself.
“No one knows the full truth. We know the full truth.”
Last week, Netflix released the first official teaser which featured never before seen private photographs of the couple including happy snapshots of the Sussexes kissing while Meghan sits on a kitchen island, as newlyweds dancing with joy at their evening wedding do, cuddling in a photobooth and Meghan cradling her bump while pregnant.
Another shows the duchess pictured with her hand over her face as she sits cross-legged on a chair holding a phone but it is not clear in this image whether she is crying.
Billed as a Netflix Global Event, the streaming giant has promised an "unprecedented and in-depth documentary series" over six episodes where Harry and Meghan "share the other side of their high-profile love story".
