Royal biographer Omid Scobie slams claim Queen Elizabeth II didn’t approve Princess Lilibet’s name

Royal biographer Omid Scobie slammed a new claim that Queen Elizabeth II was upset with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for saying she had approved their daughter Princess Lilibet’s name.

“None of these Lilibet ‘revelations’ are doing the late Queen Elizabeth II any favours,” the “Endgame” author tweeted Tuesday.

Scobie backed up his post by including screenshots of an excerpt from famed writer Gyles Brandreth’ book “Elizabeth” that said the Queen viewed her great-granddaughter’s name as the “compliment it was intended to be.”

“Not only do they contradict details shared by the Palace with a cooperatively written biography in 2022 (see pic), they also depict the monarch in a way the public haven’t known her to be,” the “Finding Freedom” co-author continued.

Royal biographer Omid Scobie slammed a claim that the late Queen Elizabeth II didn’t approve Princess Lilibet’s name. Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images
Scobie noted that the claim “directly contradict[s]” past stories. POOL/AFP via Getty Images
A royal aide claimed in a forthcoming book that the late monarch was “angry” with Harry and Markle. WireImage

Scobie’s tweet comes after a royal aide claimed in journalist Robert Hardman’s forthcoming book “Charles III” that the late monarch was “as angry as I’d ever seen her” when Harry and Markle publicly said she had approved the use of her childhood nickname for their daughter.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have not publicly responded to the aide’s claim, which comes more than a year after the Queen’s death.

Buckingham Palace also has not commented.

A previous biography said the Queen viewed it as the “compliment it was intended to be.” Alexi Lubomirski / Duke and Duchess of Sussex

Sources previously told Page Six that Harry, 39, had called his grandmother after Markle, 42, gave birth to Lilibet in 2021 to let her know of their planned tribute.


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“It will have likely been a call saying that she’s arrived and we’d plan to name her after you — it’s not really something one can say no to. I doubt they asked — more likely informed,” one insider told us at the time.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed Lilibet in June 2021. Misan Harriman/The Duke and Duchess of Sussex

The couple, who married in 2018 and quit their royal duties in 2020, announced their now-2-year-old daughter’s name, Lilibet Diana, shortly after her arrival.

“Lili is named after her great-grandmother, Her Majesty The Queen, whose family nickname is Lilibet. Her middle name, Diana, was chosen to honor her beloved late grandmother, The Princess of Wales,” they shared in a statement at the time.

Harry and Markle also share 4-year-old son Prince Archie.