Prince Harry first heard of Queen Elizabeth's death from BBC website

Prince Harry says helium archetypal recovered retired astir the decease of his grandma Queen Elizabeth from the BBC website.

In his memoir Spare, the Duke of Sussex says helium had a telephone telephone from his father, past Prince Charles, to accidental that the Queen's wellness was worsening.

But portion Prince Harry made plans to question to Balmoral, helium says helium was asked not to bring his woman Meghan.

By the clip his level landed successful Scotland, helium recovered from BBC News connected his telephone that the Queen had died.

"When the level started to descend I saw that my telephone lit up. It was a connection from Meg: "Call maine erstwhile you get this."

"I looked astatine the BBC website. My grandma had died. My begetter was King," writes Prince Harry.

This relationship adds antecedently chartless item to the events surrounding the Queen's decease past September - and reveals that the quality archetypal reached Prince Harry not from his family, but from the online quality connected his phone, arsenic helium arrived connected a charter formation from Luton airport.

It mightiness besides clarify immoderate disorder connected the time of the Queen's death, erstwhile it was archetypal thought that Meghan was travelling with Harry, but it aboriginal emerged that she wasn't.

Prince William's wife, Catherine, besides did not spell to Balmoral, the Scottish property wherever the Queen had spent her past summer.

In Prince Harry's account, helium says his begetter told him not to bring Meghan with explanations that "didn't marque immoderate sense, and really they were disrespectful. I didn't tolerate it".

"Don't adjacent deliberation astir speaking astir my woman similar that," Prince Harry recalls saying to his father.

"Regretful, helium stammered that helium simply didn't privation it to capable up with people. Nobody's woman was going, not adjacent Kate, helium told me, truthful Meg shouldn't either.

"'Then you should person started with that," says Prince Harry's recollection.

The book, translated from a Spanish edition, reveals details from the prince's last speech with the precocious Queen, which helium thought astir arsenic helium travelled up to Balmoral - including a gag astir his ain thinning hair.

"I spent astir the full formation looking astatine the clouds, reliving the past clip I'd spoken to my grandmother. We'd been chatting astatine magnitude 4 days before.

"We touched connected tons of issues. Her wellness of course, the chaos successful Downing Street, the Braemar Games, which she was atrocious not to person been capable to be due to the fact that she wasn't well.

"We besides spoke astir the devastating drought. Meg and I were staying astatine Frogmore and the tract was successful a truly atrocious state.

"It's similar my head, granny, afloat of bald spots and brownish patches!' She burst retired laughing. I told her to instrumentality attraction of herself and that I hoped we'd spot each different soon."

But by the clip helium landed helium saw the quality astir the Queen's death.

"I enactment connected my achromatic tie, got retired of the level nether dense rainfall and racing up to Balmoral successful a borrowed car."