Prince Philip drops F-bomb at Harry and Meghan’s wedding, according to new royal memoir

A shocking new claim about Prince Philip’s unfiltered reaction to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding has surfaced in a former royal aide’s memoir, and it is anything but warm.

Grant Harold, who previously served as a butler for King Charles when he resided at his Highgrove estate, recalls in his new book that Prince Philip did not mince his words as he left St George’s Chapel in Windsor following the Sussexes’ marriage in 2018.

Standing alongside the Queen, the 96-year-old Duke of Edinburgh is said to have muttered a brutal four word sledge as he walked out of the service: “Thank f*** that’s over.”

“It was very funny. I think he was speaking for the majority of people, who were wondering what it was all about and when it was going to end, but he was the man who actually said it,” Harold writes in The Royal Butler.

While Philip was well-known for his candid and sometimes controversial gaffes, the revelation adds to a growing list of stories suggesting Harry’s grandparents were never entirely convinced by his choice of bride.

Royal biographer Ingrid Seward has previously claimed that Philip privately nicknamed Markle “D.O.W” – a pointed comparison to Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, whose romance with Edward VIII shook the monarchy in the 1930s.

According to Seward, Philip grew wary of Markle’s “charm offensive” ahead of the wedding and even warned the Queen to be cautious.

“It was uncanny,” the Duke reportedly said, “how much Meghan reminded him of the Duchess of Windsor.”

While the Queen continued to show outward support for Harry and Markle, insiders suggest that Philip’s suspicions endured.

Seven years on, Harry and Markle are settled in Montecito, California and marking wedding anniversaries with doting Instagram tributes.