Royal Family offered Meghan Markle full support but she 'refused to trust them'

The offered Meghan Markle their full support when she married Prince Harry but she turned them down due to a lack of "trust", insiders say.

The royals reportedly bent over backwards to help the to make the difficult adjustment to royal life but she wanted to do it all herself, according to a new biography of the monarch by royal author Robert Hardman, titled Charles III.

A staffer working at the when Meghan arrived on the scene explained: ""It was Clive [now Sir Clive Alderton, private secretary to the King] who said that if we could get this right for Harry, we'd be creating a blueprint for future younger sons for generations.

"We seconded people from Clarence House, very expert people, to help them, but the Duchess wouldn't trust them. Those two were offered considerable resource, and then later said that they had been offered no help. And that was completely wrong."

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Despite the couple's many controversial attacks against the , the 75-year-old monarch is not against burying the hatchet and mending ties. When the 40-year-old Prince returned for a visit in May, he was even offered a room at , but chose to stay in a hotel, citing security concerns, the King's staffer said. He quipped: "I’m not sure you could get anywhere more secure than the Palace."

It was recently revealed that had a furious response when he was told Meghan was not welcome at Balmoral on the day of the Queen's death.

As Harry prepared to travel from London to to be with his grandmother in September 2022, he learned that while the royals were gathering to be with the Queen in her final moments, Meghan was not invited.

Harry had expressed his wish for his wife to join him on his journey - but it was his father Charles who put his foot down. The Duke recalled the awkward phone call in his tell-all memoir Spare, writing: "He said I was welcome at Balmoral, but he didn't want... her. He started to lay out his reason, which was nonsensical, and disrespectful, and I wasn't having it."

Harry said he retorted firmly to his father's comments about Meghan, saying: "Don't ever speak about my wife that way…He stammered, apologetic, saying he simply didn't want a lot of people around. No other wives were coming, Kate wasn't coming, he said, therefore Meg shouldn't. Then that's all you needed to say."

The Queen peacefully passed away at 15:10 on September 8. Of her family members, only Charles, Camilla and Princess Anne were able to see her before she died.

Buckingham Palace had announced at 12.50pm that , Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and Sophie had started to make their way to Scotland. Sadly, they were not in time. They landed at 3:50pm, 40 minutes after her death. With William at the wheel, they drove to Balmoral, arriving at 5.06pm. Prince Harry, meanwhile, left Luton airport onboard a private jet at about 5.30pm. He was still in the air when the announcement of the queen's death was made at 6.30pm.