Prince Phillip was reportedly "spitting blood" after discovering that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wanted to leave the Royal Family.
According to Christopher Andersen, author of Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry and Meghan, the late Duke of Edinburgh told a trusted aide: "we were wrong about her all along".
The royal author claimed that Prince Phillip went straight to the Queen after hearing the news to express his anger at the couple.
He was said to have been furious that the couple made the announcement without informing senior royals first, reports the Daily Star.
In the book, the aide added that Philip had no knowledge of social media platform Instagram but was “furious, deeply hurt, spitting blood” when he learned of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s joint announcement.
According to the aide, Philip shouted “this shows a complete lack of respect” as he ranted to the Queen about the situation.
The book also claims that both Prince Philip and Prince Charles had a good relationship with Meghan in the beginning, before their view eventually changed.
Andersen wrote the senior royals now viewed Meghan as a twenty-first-century Wallis Simpson – the American socialite who married the Duke of Windsor, former King Edward VIII after he abdicated in order to be with her more than 80 years ago.
Philip then confided in one of his closest aides that: “It appears as if, we were wrong about her all along.”
The Duke of Edinburgh was not the only male royal who was angry by Harry and Meghan’s announcement.
As revealed in Andersen’s book, according to Charles’ staff, the Prince of Wales’ reaction to the statement was “frightening”.
He allegedly had a phone conversation with Harry and told him to “try and fix this”, the book claims.
The Daily Star contacted Buckingham Palace for comment, but the Palace has previously stated regarding the book: "We don’t comment on books of this kind as to do so risks giving it some form of authority or credibility."
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