Prince Harry shares some details from the private conversation he had with Queen Elizabeth II last week.
“She had a lot of messages for Team UK which I have already passed on to most of them,” the Duke of Sussex told the BBC on Monday.
“Well, it was great to see her. I’m sure she would love to be here if she could.”
Harry’s conversation with the Queen was one of their first face-to-face meetings since he and his wife Meghan Markle officially stepped down from royal duties in February 2021.
Harry went on to say that conversations with his grandmother focused on his trip to the Netherlands and the 2022 Invictus Games.
Harry, 37, and Markle, 40, visited Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles a week before their 96th birthday on April 21.
While Harry returned home for the unveiling of a memorial to Princess Diana last summer, the trip was Markle’s first visit to the UK since March 2020.
Meghan Markle returned to the UK this month for the first time since March 2020. Getty Images
The couple came under scrutiny last month after not attending Prince Philip’s funeral service amid ongoing tensions with the royal family.
The Duke of Edinburgh died last April aged 99.
The couple wed in May 2018 and performed their royal duties for two years before stepping down. Getty Images
However, many are hoping that Harry and Markle’s visit to the UK – and attendance at the Invictus Games – will help restore public opinion of them across the pond.
“They need a win,” a senior royal source told Page Six. “They will never win with some people in England, probably the majority, but their appearance at the Invictus Games could rekindle the support they have among a certain young demographic in the UK.”
In 2014, Harry started the Invictus Games, a competition for wounded, injured and ill veterans.