Anson was born in Windsor Castle to the Queen Mother’s sister. She was the queen’s confidante from the time of the monarch’s Golden Jubilee in 2002.
Anson alleged that the royal leader expressed worry about the union. In the post, she wrote, "When we spoke two weeks before the May 19 wedding, Liza had just heard from the Queen. 'The Number One Lady—I call her Jemima—says the jury is out on whether she likes Meghan.'”
“My Jemima is very worried," Anson reportedly told Bedell Smith. She alleged, “Harry is besotted and weak about women. We hope, but don’t quite think she is in love. We think she [Meghan] engineered it all.”
In her Substack, Bedell Smith shared Anson's remarks. “[Harry] said, ‘I am close to my grandmother, and she is content with this.’ When I spoke with the Queen, she said she is not at all content.”
Additionally, royal editor and biographer Ingrid Seward discussed Queen Elizabeth's concerns about Harry and Meghan's wedding in the book My Mother and I. The book detailed the relationship between the monarch and her son, King Charles III.
"The queen never voiced her true opinions except to her close confidants, such as Lady Elizabeth Anson, or Liza as she was known to her friends," Seward wrote in an excerpt published by The Daily Mail. "She told me that the Queen had made only one remark about Meghan and Harry's wedding and that was that Meghan's Givenchy wedding gown was 'too white.'"
Seward noted, “In the monarch’s view, [the dress] was not appropriate for a divorcée remarrying in church.” She added that Queen Elizabeth was reportedly uneasy with “the Disneyesque spectacle of the day itself,” though it remains unclear whether the Queen directly shared that opinion.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry left their royal roles behind in early 2020. They celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary in May.
Anson died that same year, followed by Queen Elizabeth in September 2022.
