Londoners have shown sign of disrespect to Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle as they we leaving London’s St. Paul Cathedral on June 3, 2022 morning following Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee thanksgiving service. The couple had arrived in London for their first major royal event since 2020. The last time, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle appeared at a similar even was in March 2020 when they had participated in the annual Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey.
According to media reports, Prince Harry and Markle joined nobility and politicians from all over the realm in commemorating the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. Also attending were present and former prime ministers and foreign dignitaries.
Queen Elizabeth did not attend the service because of “some discomfort” she experienced on June 2.
Some in the crowd also cheered for the couple who drew opprobrium in 2021 when they announced they would leave royal life, citing a “lack of support and lack of understanding” within the family. June 3 booing was reportedly the fear of royal courtiers.
The two are reportedly keeping a low profile while participating in the festivities. Although Prince Charles and Meghan had consistently said how they love and respect the Queen, in reality, they did not tell her about their plans to step away from royal life, which is seen as enormous snub to a woman that so many of the Britons hold in high regard.
Meghan Markle and Harry were not the only attendees to receive boos from the crowd when they attended the thanksgiving service. Some in the crowd booed at Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie Symonds when they arrived.
Elizabeth has surpassed all monarchs in Britain’s history to become the country’s longest-ruling sovereign. During the over seven decades of remaining in the throne, Queen Elizabeth has witnessed several odds, including the mysterious death of Princess Diana.
But the most humiliating matter to the Queen was the disclosure of her husband Prince Phillip’s connections with Adolf Hitler and Nazis.
In an investigative documentary film titled ‘The Crown’, Prince Philip, who died last year had dived into his personal life, examining Philip’s past and present demons. Shown as a cheating, partying womanizer, Philip in real life was linked to numerous women – including two cabaret dancers.
The controversy swirling around the Prince Phillip does not stop there. When Philip was just 18 months old, his family fled Greece after the monarchy toppled. In 1930, when he was 9 years old and away at Cheam School in Britain, his mother suffered a nervous breakdown, all his sisters married within 6 months of each other (two marrying high-ranking Nazi officials) and his father ran away to Monaco with his mistress.
While Prince Philip, age 16, was still at Gordonstoun, his sister Cecilie died tragically in a plane crash. At her funeral in Germany he marched next to men in Nazi uniforms. Philip has never confirmed the family’s Nazi ties, but none of his sisters were invited to his 1947 royal wedding to Queen Elizabeth. In the book “Royals and the Reich,” Philip told author Jonathan Petropolous that his family was jealous of Jewish people for their financial success, but he didn’t recall specific Nazi connections. Here the Prince had lied. In reality, his sisters were married to Nazi officers.
In October 1937, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor visited Hitler at Berchtesgaden, where Hitler had been vacationing since the 1920s.
According to biographer Frances Donaldson, in her book “Edward VIII”, the Duke gave Hitler full Nazi salutes during his visit. While some say this trip was more to receive support for Edward and his wife, the Duke’s actions speak louder than hypotheses. The royal family did not support this visit.
Just after the war, American diplomats uncovered 400 tons of German diplomatic papers, at Marburg Castle. Named the Marburg files, they included a cache of documents damaging to the royal family called the “Windsor File”—some 60 documents (letters, telegrams and other papers) written by people working around the Duke, including German agents, during the war.
Among these documents are details of the Nazis-devised plan “Operation Willi,” where the Germans would gain control of Britain and overthrow the monarchy, returning the Duke to the throne. The Germans viewed the Duke, who was perceived to be ambivalent about the war, as a better ally than his successor King George VI. In order to get the Duke on their side, German agents tried to manipulate the ostracized royal, even attempting to convince the Duke that his brother, King George, had plans to assassinate him. The documents were leaked to the British government, which tried to suppress them.
