The Queen reportedly had a 'Megxit' summit room "swept for bugs" in fear details could be leaked to the press, according to a royal author.
In a Royal Family showdown, the Queen chaired a meeting with Charles, William and Harry in January 2020 to discuss details of the Sussexes stepping back as key royals and moving to America.
The now famous Sandringham summit followed Meghan and Harry's public announcement to step down as working royals before telling their family.
Now, royal author Robert Jobson writes in new book 'Our King', how the Queen was concerned their conversation could be secretly recorded and leaked to the press, and ordered the Sandringham library to be swept for bugs.
Jobson continues to reveal details of Meghan's exclusion from the meeting via video link for fear the connection could be hacked.
He wrote: "There was a suggestion that Meghan should join Charles, William and Harry via video link from Canada, but the Queen ruled that her attendance in any form was ‘not necessary’ as Harry would represent her.
"It was also felt that a video link wouldn’t be secure, as Charles and William wouldn’t be able to tell if the meeting was being recorded or if Meghan had anyone else listening in as they spoke."
The new book, serialised by the Mail, also claimed Kate found her public walkabout alongside Harry and Meghan was "one of the hardest things she’d ever had to do”.
Due to “ill feeling” between the senior royal couples, the Princess of Wales is said to have struggled with the time spent together, after the Queen’s death last September.
The well-wishers gathered there two days after the Queen died, aged 96.
Whilst the walkabout might have come across as a symbol of unity, following the death of the centrepiece of the monarchy, Mr Jobson claimed that sources told him that wasn’t the case.
He said such togetherness was an “illusion” and he wrote: “Catherine later admitted to a senior royal that, such was the ill feeling between the two couples, the joint walkabout was one of the hardest things she'd ever had to do.”
The book includes a number of other shocking claims and revelations, including there were fears that if Meghan joined the Sandringham Summit via video link, it would not have been “secure”.
Alongside that, he reportedly wrote that Charles and William decided they couldn’t be alone with Harry following the Sussexes’ bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview, the Daily Mail reported.
It comes as relations between the self-exiled royals and The Firm remain at an all-time low.
