Queen Elizabeth II she was very angry when she learned that the Dukes of Sussex had said that she had approved of them naming their second daughter Lilibet, the nickname she had as a child. «She was angry like I had never seen her before» said a courtier when Harry e Meghan they said they would never have named little Lilibet if the great-grandmother and queen had not been “consenting”. The anecdote is told by Robert Hardman, in the book Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story, extracts of which were published in the Daily Mail. The full name of Harry and Meghan’s second daughter, born in 2021, is Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor.
The announcement of the baby’s name was a bolt from the blue, because one would never have thought that the dukes, already clearly at odds with the Royal House, would have chosen such an intimate name belonging to the close family circle. After the general surprise, Harry e Meghan they accused the BBC of defamation because the British national broadcaster reported that they had acted independently, without asking for any permission to use that name.
The book also says that plans were made at Buckingham Palace for the prince to become regent in the last years of his reign, a step which was then made useless by the death of the queen.