Vickers: Queen Elizabeth was terrified that the Sussexes might secretly record her

When she was alive, Queen Elizabeth II was actually renowned for her discretion. Prime ministers and world leaders knew that she would rarely, if ever, reveal what was said in private meetings. She wasn’t in the habit of compulsively briefing against her family members either, which is something that really began in earnest when then-Prince Charles’s marriage to Diana was beginning to crash and burn. Well, now that QEII is dead, she cannot shut up. Since QEII kicked the royal bucket, her ghost has seemingly spent years haunting various royal reporters and saying bigoted and insulting sh-t about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Hugo Vickers has written one of several QEII biographies published around what would have been her centenary birthday, and Vickers appeared on the Telegraph’s podcast last week. He provided a greatest hits of QEII’s ghost screaming, crying and throwing up over Harry and Meghan.

The late Queen feared she was being recorded secretly by Harry and Meghan for Netflix, her biographer has claimed. Hugo Vickers, who met Elizabeth II on more than 40 occasions, has written a biography in which he claims the monarch would ask her lady-in-waiting to stay with her during calls with her grandson.

The author of Queen Elizabeth II: A Personal History says: “The distress the Sussexes caused the Queen in the last years of her life cannot be overestimated.”

Now, in an interview with the Daily T, Mr Vickers has claimed the Queen, who died in 2022 aged 96, worried about having face-to-face conversations with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex for fear of the discussions being leaked.

Mr Vickers said: “Trust had been broken, basically. So I think, as far as having somebody in the room, it was … to stop them taking photographs or being wired or God knows what.”

Asked if he believed the late Queen feared they were wearing secret microphones, potentially to record footage for Netflix, he added: “Yes, wired for recording. It’s always a possibility. I’m not saying it happened.”

The Sussexes have been accused of leaking information from private meetings with royal relatives in the past, which they have denied.

In his biography of Elizabeth II, which chronicles her 75-year reign, Mr Vickers reveals what the late Queen thought about Harry and Meghan. He claims she told a confidante after the Duke decided to leave the Royal family: “And now Harry has opted out, and for what? To be a carer for Archie.”

When the newlyweds moved into Frogmore Cottage on the Windsor Great Park estate, the late Queen reportedly took Meghan to task over allegedly being rude to the gardeners there. Mr Vickers claims: “When one of the head gardeners mentioned this to the Queen, she got in her car and drove over and ticked off Meghan for being rude to the staff.”

He adds that the Duke and Duchess’s decision to name their daughter Lilibet also went down badly, writing: “To use the intimate family nickname for the Queen, used only by close members of the family, was insensitive to say the least.”

[From The Telegraph]

I f–king love when they make it sound like the royal family and royal estates are so mismanaged and there’s such a convoluted chain of command that the head gardener would go straight to the QUEEN to complain about Meghan. That’s it in a nutshell, right? We’re supposed to believe that Meghan was so unbelievably rude to the head gardener of the Windsor estate that the gardener would march straight to the queen’s castle office and tell HER directly that Meghan made him cry. And that QEII would believe him and march right over to Frogmore Cottage to bitch out Meghan. Keep in mind how there are apparently no stories about QEII bitching out Prince Andrew for hosting degenerate sex parties on royal estates or for inviting Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to royal properties. But Meghan! The gardener!!

As for the “Meghan and Harry could secretly record the queen” thing – that was a real and vocalized fear for the left-behinds for years. Those people were absolutely paranoid that Harry would march into QEII’s castle office (like the head gardener) and record a conversation with her, and then he would give the audio file to Netflix!! Remember how the derangers also claimed that Meghan wore a microphone on the 2022 walkabout after QEII died? They also had a conspiracy about Meghan being mic’d up for the Jubbly church service in 2022. For several years immediately after H&M signed their contract with Netflix, so many of the conspiracies revolved around “are they recording this for NETFLIX?”

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27 Responses to “Vickers: Queen Elizabeth was terrified that the Sussexes might secretly record her”

  1. Shiela Kerr says:

    Pretty much sounds like projection to me. Those gutter rats may have feared this but Prince Harry loved and respected his grandmother far too much for this sort of nonsense. All of those rats knew how much his granny adored him and have been trying to rewrite their relationship since her death. Another money grab from another low principled man.

  2. Katiekatekate says:

    Let’s pretend for a moment that any of that was true and the QEII (and other royals) were afraid of H&M being mic’ed in conversations with them. What were they afraid of exactly? That something they’d say would be used against them in a Netflix documentary? Were they so heinous in actual speech that they knew they would look bad?

    I thought, according to many royal rota reporters, that H&M are the unreasonable ones and M probably even bullied the microphones, so what were they afraid of if they were being reasonable and H&M were terrible?

    Oh. Right. Because none of that is true.

  3. And yet Harry spoke of the Zoom calls he and Meg had with his grandmother and grand father. Were they worried he was recording? What a load of bullshit!!

  4. ABritGuest says:

    This is a lie from trolls and shows that Vickers like most royalists is knee deep in trolls spaces. It’s insane (scary ) that so called legitimate media actually platforms troll theories.

    • Blujfly says:

      Especially because Vickers is touted a historical, but Blandeth who is infinitely better sourced debunked the Lilibet thing and revealed the Queen’s cancer diagnosis. Vickers has no new information at all.

      • Bqm says:

        Brandeth also said Philip wasn’t that bent out of shape about SussexIt. That he didn’t agree with it but he understood why they were doing it and wished them well. According to Brandreth Philip sympathized with them and understood that “people have to lead their lives as they think best.” He thought the Oprah interview would have no good come of it but admired his grandson for his military career and thought of him as a “good man”. Quite a bit different from the narratives others put out.

  5. sunniside up says:

    This is why the late Queen invited them to her jubilee, provided them with her own security, and arranged for them to fly to Farnborough, far away from the Press.

  6. Gemini says:

    So do they have seances with the dead queen to confirm every deranged theory about Meghan?

    • Hypocrisy says:

      These people are beyond ridiculous and I guess it’s a good thing lizzy is dead so she can 🪦 rip that no one is going to video her anymore since it was such a horrible worry she carried when she had a son who at the time was involved with trading state secrets to rape trafficked children and women that wasn’t worrying, Meghan wearing secret cameras was what kept her up at night 🙄.

  7. Amy Bee says:

    These people including the Queen are just terrible people. I can only imagine what it felt like to be around these people. It must have been very isolating and I can understand why her mental health was affected so badly.

  8. Tessa says:

    That old gardener story again. !!! The Queen heard the Meghan was being rude so it was off to the Queen Mobile to scold Meghan. So how come the head gardener got to the Queen right away! Vickers is shameless. So the Queen looked into every alleged complained despite having a huge staff that worked for her. Another nameless person, this time a “head gardener.”

  9. Tessa says:

    The secret microphones nonsense is straight out of the bots and Derangers playbook, Vickers does his research repeating old deranger rubbish.

  10. Tiff says:

    If anyone recorded her it was her 3 sons.
    Edward so charles couldn’t renegotiate.
    Charles so he could blame her.
    Andrew so he could blackmail everyone.

    Harry didnt need to record unless he wanted his kids to hear from great grand! I would assume Zara and Mike would record before Harry.

  11. Snuffles says:

    That Netflix contract broke EVERYONE’s brains. That and the face that they bought their own little estate. I believe the timing was pretty much back to back.

    Before then, they were supremely confident that the Sussexes would come crawling back in a year. The Netflix contract signaled that wasn’t going to happen anytime soon. And they’ve resented the fuck out of Netflix ever since.

  12. tara says:

    ah yes, the many secret recordings that have never been used, for some reason.

  13. QuiteContrary says:

    Yes, the Windsors are notably intolerant of rudeness to staff. Just ask Charles. And Andrew. And Edward. None of them ever dared to be rude to their peasant underlings.

    What’s that old rhyme? Paranoia will destroy ya.

  14. Joanne says:

    Both the Jubilee Church Service and the walk about after the Queen’s death were televised and public. What would be the point of wearing a microphone? There were no private conversations. If someone was concerned about being taped, the logical thing would be not to say anything you didn’t want others to hear.

  15. Becks1 says:

    I know we say this all the time here, but the irony cannot be overstated – the article states “The Sussexes have been accused of leaking information from private meetings with royal relatives in the past” while the royal family leaks constantly to the media especially about the Sussexes.

    • Lover says:

      The queen told Meghan to write a private letter to her father, which Charles then literally handed over to a tabloid to be published. There are innumerable examples of the Windsors telling the tabloids “private” stories about each other specifically to screw each other over.

      The hypocrisy and projection is mind blowing.

  16. MikeB says:

    This is the latest game by these authors, putting words into the mouth of the late Queen. It started last year with a whole string from the lady who had wanted to arrange the wedding for H&M. No way of checking the validity of the claims, at most they are second or third hand.

  17. Tessa says:

    Vickers seems to be trying to appeal to derangers. But the thing is I doubt the derangers even buy the Meghan and Harry trashing books.

    • Where'sMyTiara says:

      Vickers et al think there are more derangers than actually exist.

      Hilarious to see them pandering “to the public interest” they interact with on social media; they’re talking to BRF’s paid bots! It’s a ridiculous echo chamber of courtiers and tabloid rats.

      These people have fewer brain cells than an orange cat. They’re actively harming their own cause with every article.

      Or are they? Perhaps the tabloid rats are republicans after all! How else to explain the constant smearing of their supposedly beloved late monarch?

  18. Elizabeth says:

    Meanwhile, Prince Edward sent a camera crew to film Prince William at university without permission. I can’t imagine that, after the hullabaloo over that intrusion, Harry and Meghan would have filmed or recorded the Queen without permission.

  19. Beverley says:

    Once again, they are insisting that Betty was a two-faced, petty manipulator who felt she had to take the biracial woman down a few pegs.

    That “very much not racist” family is never beating the bigotry rap. Ever.

  20. Tarte Au Citron says:

    Lizzy didn’t seem too bothered about having a KGB agent (the royal art curator) under her roof for years.
    This is such a crazy spin.

  21. Over it says:

    Would someone make Betty stfu. I know they say that sometimes the dead speak to us but lord almighty this one seems to be a broken faucet. She is full of stories isn’t she and not one of them makes her seem likable . She keeps coming across as a cold , heartless, racist old B

  22. Lady Digby says:

    This is BS and they invoke the dead Queen as “proof” of their own deranged conspiracy theories. Harry isn’t underhand or devious and would never do anything like this.

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