Queen Elizabeth's 'cryptic' response when Harry asked for permission to propose

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00:00Queen Elizabeth's cryptic response when Harry asked for permission to propose

00:04Queen Elizabeth II gave an interesting response when Prince Harry asked her for permission to

00:09propose to Meghan Markle. In his memoir, Spare, Prince Harry recalled the moment he informed

00:15Queen Elizabeth II that he wanted to marry Meghan Markle.

00:18I've been told that I have to ask your permission before I can propose,

00:22he said to his grandmother, who responded, well then, I suppose I have to say yes.

00:27Prince Harry was flustered by Queen Elizabeth II's response.

00:31I didn't get it. Was she being sarcastic? Ironic? Deliberately cryptic?

00:36Was she indulging in a bit of wordplay? He wrote, I'd never known Granny to do any wordplay.

00:42And this would be a surpassingly bizarre moment, not to mention widely inconvenient for her to start,

00:47but maybe she just saw the chance to play off my unfortunate use of the word have and couldn't

00:52resist. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle got engaged in late 2017.

00:57I did pop a bottle of champagne while she was roasting a chicken, and that kind of slightly

01:01gave the game away. The Duke of Sussex said of the proposal, she was like, you never drink champagne,

01:07what's the occasion? And I was like, I don't know, I just had it like lying around.

01:12According to an insider, Queen Elizabeth II called Meghan Markle evil for influencing Prince Harry to

01:18leave the royal family. It was out of character for the late Queen to use such a word as evil to

01:23describe Meghan, but she saw straight through her. It was a startling sentence to hear from the most

01:28forgiving woman on earth, the source said.

01:30And I was like, I'll see you next time now.