Meghan Markle Copyrighted Queen's Nickname 'Lilibet' Before Daughter's Arrival, Royal Expert Claims
Meghan Markle allegedly wanted to own the name "Lilibet" for her brand and copyrighted it even before she and Prince Harry welcomed their youngest child, according to a royal expert.
Angela Levin, a British journalist and biographer, recently joined Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster on GB News. During their discussion about the royal family, Holmes mentioned the Queen's alleged statement to her aides when she learned that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had named their daughter "Lilibet." The late monarch allegedly said they took the only thing she owned from her.
"I know that's an incredibly sad comment, and I think one of the reasons was that it was discovered that Meghan, even before Lilibet was born, had taken out the names officially so that she could use them to buy things to identify them," Levin claimed.
"Do you mean like copyright the names?" Holmes asked.
"Yes," Levin confirmed. "Before she had Lilibet, but she might well have been pregnant. But this was discovered and actually, I think that was awful for the Queen because she gets drawn into be owning sort of tea, of organizations or you know, gloves, or something like that because the name is so unique and just for her."
Levin explained that the moniker was unique and very intimate to the late Queen because she made it. When she couldn't speak her own name, "Elizabeth," she would only say, "Lilibet," and her family members started calling her using it.
Her father, immediate family members and late husband, Prince Philip, were the only ones who used Lilibet to address her.
Levin added that the Queen could get dragged into Markle's ventures if she would use the name for her brand.
"So that she is put there and people who don't know will think, 'Oh, yes, the Queen is supporting this, let's buy it.' I think it's appalling," Levin continued.
Holmes commented that without Queen Elizabeth, the name Lilibet lacks its "reflected glory," so he couldn't see people buying items named after it.
"I can't see people buying Lilibet gloves or handbags or anything in the future because Queen Elizabeth isn't here anymore," Holmes said.
Levin agreed and said that the Queen could no longer say if she approved of it or not. She then called Markle's alleged move "disrespectful."
The issue surrounding Lilibet's name resurfaced after Robert Hardman mentioned it in his new book, "Charles III: New King, New Court. The Inside Story." An unnamed source told the author they had never seen the Queen "as angry" as ever after the Sussexes announced the name of their daughter.
Another tipster claimed she was so upset about the incident.
"I don't own the palaces, I don't own the paintings, the only thing I own is my name. And now they've taken that," the Queen reportedly told her aides.
