A heartwarming gesture from King Charles to Meghan Markle on her wedding day left the late Queen “not comfortable”, a book has claimed.

Meghan tied the knot with Prince Harry in May 2017 in a fairytale Windsor wedding when all of the royals packed into St George’s Chapel to see the couple exchange vows while Meghan wowed in her stunning Givenchy wedding gown. The lead-up to the beautiful day had seen some tension, especially when it came to Meghan’s dad.

With less than a week to go before the big day, he announced he would not be attending due to a health scare leaving the bride with nobody to walk her down the aisle. Fortunately, Meghan’s future father-in-law Charles, who was still Prince of Wales at the time, offered to step in telling his daughter-in-law he would be honoured to escort her to the altar of the chapel.

However, in book, written by Ingrid Seward, it is claimed that the former monarch, who attended the wedding alongside her now-late husband Prince Philip, was “not comfortable” with certain elements of the service. Writing in her new book, My Mother and I, royal biographer Seward says: “The Queen was not comfortable with the Prince of Wales standing in for Meghan’s father, Thomas Markle, and was similarly concerned about a 96-year-old Prince Philip walking down the aisle without a stick, having had a hip replacement only five weeks before.”

After the big day, it later emerged it had been Harry’s decision to ask his father to stand in. He recalled in the documentary Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70: “I asked him to and I think he knew it was coming and he immediately said, ‘Yes, of course, I’ll do whatever Meghan needs and I’m here to support you.”

It comes after another book claimed Meghan left Charles surprised by her four-word reply when he did offer to walk her down the aisle. Writing in Queen of Our Times, author Robert Hardman says: “The reply, according to one friend, was not quite what he was expecting: “Can we meet halfway?’ Here was an indicator that this was no blushing bride, but a confident, independent woman determined to make a grand entrance on her own.”

However, it wasn’t the only part of the wedding day that ended up bucking royal tradition. According to Ingrid, who spoke with one of the late Queen’s confidants Lady Elizabeth Anson, she never voiced her true opinion on Harry’s wife.

However, the book claims the only remark the late monarch made about Harry and Meghan’s wedding was regarding theQuee bride’s white, flowing Givenchy wedding gown. Ingrid writes: “Lady Elizabeth told me that the Queen had made only one remark to her about Meghan and Harry’s wedding, which was that the bride’s Givenchy wedding gown was ‘too white’. In the monarch’s view, it was not appropriate for a divorcee getting remarried in church to look quite so flamboyantly virginal.

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