Queen takes on Harry and Meghan by giving green light for rival book revealing her lockdown secrets
THE Queen has given her blessing to her trusted aide to reveal her Covid lockdown secrets — and go head-to-head with Prince Harry’s tell-all book.
Royal dresser Angela Kelly, who has been with Her Majesty for 28 years, will tell of HMS Bubble and Prince Philip’s death in her offering.
Prince Harry, 37, who clashed with Angela over Tiara-gate, is putting the finishing touches to his autobiography due out this autumn.
He was accused of yelling “what Meghan wants, Meghan gets” at Angela over a choice of tiara ahead of their royal wedding in 2018.
A new chapter for Angela’s 2019 picture book The Other Side of the Coin will be released next month for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, publisher HarperCollins announced.
They say: “The Queen personally gave Angela her blessing to share their unparalleled bond with the world and Angela is the first serving member of the Royal Household to be given this extraordinary permission.”
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It will cover lockdown when the Queen was protected by her ring-of-steel, dubbed HMS Bubble. It is set to show how Angela cut and set the Queen’s hair and will cover the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral.
The Queen was living at Windsor under restrictions when Harry and Meghan dished the dirt in their Oprah interview last year.
And she sat alone at a scaled-back funeral for Prince Philip.
Liverpool crane driver’s daughter Angela was part of HMS Bubble and with the Queen on the day of the funeral.
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Her formal title is Personal Advisor to Her Majesty (The Queen’s Wardrobe) but she is known as her closest confidante.
HarperNonFiction publishing director Katya Shipster said: “We wanted to commemorate the extraordinary occasion of The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with this beautiful new edition, as well as bring the content of the book right up to date following the unprecedented events of the past two years.
“It tells the story of the royal bubble as well as the lengths Angela and the Royal Household went to, to ensure the safety of our Monarch.”
The Queen was triple jabbed and avoided the dreaded virus until she caught Covid in February. Last week, she described how it left “one feeling tired and exhausted”.
She is braced for two tell-all books coming out soon.
The Sun revealed last year that Harry has been researching the life of Princess Diana. Insiders believe he will lay into his father Prince Charles and stepmother Camilla.
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And Di biographer Tina Brown pledges her new book about the royals, out next month, will contain “powerful revelations”.
Buckingham Palace did not want to comment.
