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 exact moment he informed

00:15Queen Elizabeth II that he wanted to marry Meghan Markle. I've been told that I have to ask your

00:20permission before I can propose, he said to his grandmother, who responded. Well then, I suppose I

00:26have to say yes. Prince Harry was flustered by Queen Elizabeth II's response. I didn't get it. Was she

00:32being sarcastic, ironic, deliberately cryptic? Was she indulging in a bit of wordplay? He wrote,

00:38I'd never known Granny to do any wordplay, and this would be a surpassingly bizarre moment,

00:44not to mention widely inconvenient, for her to start, but maybe she just saw the chance to play

00:49off my unfortunate use of the word have and couldn't resist. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

00:55got engaged in late 2017. I did pop a bottle of champagne while she was roasting a chicken,

01:01and that kind of slightly gave the game away, the Duke of Sussex said of the proposal.

01:05She was like, you never drink champagne, what's the occasion? And I was like, I don't know,

01:10I just had it like, lying around. According to an insider, Queen Elizabeth II called Meghan Markle

01:16evil for influencing Prince Harry to leave the royal family. It was out of character for the late

01:22Queen to use such a word as evil to describe Meghan, but she saw straight through her. It was a startling

01:27sentence to hear from the most forgiving woman on earth. The source said,