Royal family haunted by the Queen’s 100th birthday, Andrew Secrets

Queen Elizabeth rarely revealed her innermost thoughts and emotions, but two explosive new books are now lifting the veil on secrets that will haunt the royal family forever. RadarOnline.com can reveal

The revealing books – Elizabeth II: Private. In public. The inner storyby Robert Hardman, and Queen Elizabeth II: A Personal Historyby Hugo Vickers – delve into behind-the-scenes moments of her government.

From alleged tensions surrounding Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s marriage to her loyalty to her troubled son, the former Prince Andrew, the books provide a rare glimpse into the private world of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.

Here are the juiciest secrets from the bomb books.

What should have been a joyous royal celebration reportedly became a tense and somber affair behind the palace walls as the queen grew increasingly dissatisfied with Markle.

The relationship is said to have gotten off to a rocky start when the couple ignored Elizabeth’s request to wait a year before getting married and opted to get married after just six months. Tensions increased when Markle rejected the Queen’s proposal to work with trusted planner Lady Anson – Lady Anson – a decision that would have deeply hurt the monarch.

Sources say further friction arose during preparations for the big day. When the queen invited Markle to choose a tiara in a private setting, Harry unexpectedly joined in, disrupting what was meant to be a personal bonding moment. As Hardman quotes a former staffer, “It was her lovely way of bonding with the bride.

She did it together with Sophie [Rhys-Jones, Prince Edward’s wife] and with Catherine [Middleton]. But there wasn’t that connection with Meghan because she showed up with Prince Harry.”

The situation escalated into the infamous ‘Tiaragate’, further eroding trust.

Elizabeth was also reportedly unhappy with Markle’s bridal look, particularly her choice of a white dress and veil – traditionally avoided by royal divorcees.

Rumors have been circulating for some time that Prince Philip may have strayed during his 73-year marriage to Elizabeth.

While neither relationship has ever been proven, one relationship stood out: his decades-long closeness to Penelope “Penny” Knatchbull.

Despite their 30-year age difference, the two bonded over their shared love of horse-drawn carriages and remained close for nearly 50 years.

Knatchbull was even among the selected 30 mourners at Philip’s private funeral in 2021.

Biographer and historian Sarah Bradford reportedly once claimed: “The Duke of Edinburgh has had affairs… and more than one. He has affairs, and the Queen accepts it. I think she thinks men are like that.”

The prince also proved adept at keeping secrets – reportedly hiding his inoperable pancreatic cancer from the public for years.

According to Vickers, Prince Andrew remained Elizabeth’s favorite son despite the mounting scandal – including his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Andrew has denied any wrongdoing.

The Queen reportedly did not believe he had ‘behaved inappropriately’ even as evidence against him mounted. For her, he remained frozen in time as ‘that polite little boy who was in the queen’s head’.

Hardman adds even more insight, writing, “Some of these childish tendencies can be almost endearing, like his collection of teddy bears. Others suggested more deep-seated problems.

“He never drank alcohol and always stuck to room temperature water,” the friend continued.

“‘Fair enough, but I once asked him why, and he replied like a ‘child’: ‘I tasted it once when I was a teenager and I didn’t like it.'”

That childlike quality, Hardman added, is “the reason why the Queen would always worry about him.”

Forget ABBA – Elizabeth was the real Dancing Queen! And those who knew her best claim the monarch would have happily cut out a rug on her milestone April 21, 100th birthday.

“Every morning the Queen listened to the radio,” confides her close aide and personal stylist Angela Kelly, who was the monarch’s trusted right-hand man from 1994 until her death in 2022.

“When the song”Dancing Queencame on, she loved it, and we both danced. The queen moved back and forth and sang. Her Majesty loved to sing and had a good voice. I didn’t get carried away and danced around her like I was in a discotheque, and the queen told me to ‘pass’ because I can’t sing, and we laughed. These were moments to cherish, to see the Queen so relaxed.”

In his 2023 memoir, SaveHarry portrays Kelly as a troublemaker and admits that he avoided escalating the situation to his grandmother, writing: “I considered going to Grandma’s, but that would probably mean an all-out confrontation, and I wasn’t quite sure who Grandma would side with.”

However, according to Hardman, the issue did reach the queen – and her response was decisive.

He revealed that “the Queen took the side of her dresser. She was not happy that the prince had summoned the royal family and demanded that the tiara be sent immediately. As the monarch said to one of them: ‘It’s not a toy. ”