'No one told him': Prince Harry learned of Queen’s death from online news reports, say palace sources
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM: The Duke of Sussex had rushed to his beloved grandmother's bedside to say a final goodbye on September 8, the day on which the longest serving monarch died at the age of 96. But he reportedly arrived more than an hour after Buckingham Palace announced that Queen Elizabeth had died at Balmoral, the late Queen Elizabeth II's Scottish residence. Apparently Prince Harry only found out that the Queen had died by reading online reports, a "highly-placed" Buckingham Palace insider, who was not named told Page Six. The source further mentioned that, "Harry had been called to Scotland by his father, the new King Charles III, in the morning."
There was another unnamed source from the palace, who confirmed that "no one from the royal family or anyone else from the palace had actually called Harry to tell him of the passing of his grandmother." Harry supposedly learnt the Queen had died after reaching late in the afternoon that day from online reports, instead of from a member of the family. He also traveled separately and not with the other members of the royal family, who flew down to Balmoral and were with the Queen when she died.
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The above report came after The Telegraph claimed that "Prince Harry was informed by his father King Charles III that the Queen had died five minutes before the official announcement on September 8 and was the 'last to know'". Although on Sunday, a spokesperson of King Charles III reacted to the reports in a statement to the Daily Mail. Without detailing when Prince Harry was told about the passing of the Queen, the statement read, "The public was only informed after every family member had been informed."
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