Boris Johnson Didn’t Tell Queen Elizabeth II That His Dog Killed Her Swan | 0ORM5D8 | 2024-01-21 23:08:01
Boris Johnson Didn't Tell Queen Elizabeth II That His Dog Killed Her Swan | 0ORM5D8 | 2024-01-21 23:08:01
Boris Johnson discovered the onerous approach that Queen Elizabeth II would notice if one among her beloved swans went lacking.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Elizabeth was "characteristically considerate" when she let the previous Prime Minister, 59, use the gardens of Buckingham Palace for walks together with his then-fiancée, Carrie Johnson, and their son, Wilfred, 3, while Boris recovered from the virus after being admitted to the intensive care unit.
"During one such walk, to Johnson's horror, Carrie's Jack Russell, Dilly, attacked and killed a gosling close to the palace pond," Robert Hardman wrote in his e-book The Making of a King: King Charles III and the Trendy Monarchy. "He decided that it will be greatest to say nothing in any respect, forgetting that nothing went unnoticed by the Boss at Buckingham Palace."
Hardman, 59, claimed that the subsequent time Elizabeth and Boris noticed one another, she "nonchalantly" talked about strolling in the palace gardens, before including, "I gather Jack Russells don't go very nicely with goslings." Hardman famous "that was the top of that matter."
Hardman additionally alleged that "inside hours" of Boris being appointed Prime Minister in July 2019, he "let it slip" to colleagues that Elizabeth's first phrases to him have been, "I don't know why anybody would need the job." (Boris held his place from 2019 to 2022.)
"If it had been a flagrant breach of the confidentiality guidelines relating to audiences with the monarch, she was forgiving," Hardman wrote.
Elizabeth reigned over the United Kingdom and its Commonwealth realms for 70 years earlier than her demise at the age of 96 in September 2022. Her eldest son, King Charles III, was formally crowned king and his coronation occurred in Might 2023.
Elsewhere within the e-book, a former royal aide claimed that Elizabeth wasn't happy with the state of affairs surrounding Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's determination to name their daughter, Lilibet, after the late monarch.
</figure> </a> The previous member of the queen's employees claimed she was "as indignant as I'd ever seen her" when Harry, 39, and Meghan, 42, claimed that that they had spoken with Elizabeth earlier than naming their youngster. The aide alleged that the Sussexes have been "rebuffed" once they requested the palace to counter a report that they hadn't asked Elizabeth her permission to use her identify.
Harry and Meghan welcomed daughter Lilibet in June 2021, noting that her identify is a nod to her great-grandmother, "whose household nickname is Lilibet." Her middle identify, Diana, was a tribute to Harry's late mom, Princess Diana. (The pair additionally share son Archie, 4.)
Despite these claims, a source exclusively told Us Weekly that Harry and Meghan "100 % obtained permission" from Elizabeth to make use of the identify Lilibet.
"The report isn't true. [Harry and Meghan] don't know the place that is coming from," the insider stated on Tuesday, January 16. "They're shocked that this is coming now; it seems out of nowhere and out of left subject. They only really feel like it's extra of the same spear campaign that continues towards them."
</figure> </a> The supply added that "multiple individuals are conscious" that Harry and Meghan obtained Elizabeth's blessing, adding that "they feel it's handy" the information is "surfacing now when the queen just isn't here to defend herself and may't say what is true or false."
The Making of a King: King Charles III and the Trendy Monarchy is out now.
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