Weeks after Meghan Sussex married Prince Harry in May 2018, Queen Elizabeth II invited her on the royal train for a full day of public duties. That moment, captured in widely circulated images, shows a relaxed Queen smiling beside Meghan, who had joined the royal family less than a month earlier. Their joint appearance offered a striking display of unity and public trust.
In July 2025, several media reports resurfaced claims that the Queen was allegedly upset before the wedding, citing unnamed royal insiders who questioned Meghan’s behavior and motives. These claims rely on anonymous sources and posthumous quotes from royal insiders. They also ignore what played out in full view of the world. The royal train engagement, one of the rarest honors a monarch could extend, tells a different story.
Meghan’s Engagement With The Queen Spoke Volumes
On June 14, 2018, Meghan Sussex joined Queen Elizabeth II on the royal train for an overnight journey to Cheshire. The pair carried out a full day of engagements, including the opening of the Mersey Gateway Bridge and a visit to Chester’s Storyhouse Theatre. Meghan traveled without Prince Harry, marking her first solo appearance as a working royal, with the Queen herself at her side.
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The royal train, now decommissioned in an attempt to cut taxpayer costs, once stood as one of the monarchy’s most exclusive symbols. Historically reserved for senior royals, its use required the monarch’s direct approval. That Meghan was invited aboard just weeks after her wedding made a clear statement. Queen Elizabeth chose to align herself with her new granddaughter-in-law not behind palace walls, but in full public view. The warmth between them, evident in their shared laughter and relaxed body language, spoke louder than any private rumor.
Kate Middleton may have waited nearly a decade for a Royal Train invite, but even then, the Queen didn’t bother to join her. When Kate and William finally boarded the train in December 2020, it was for a PR tour without Her Majesty. Unlike Meghan, who rode with the Queen less than a month after her wedding, Kate’s solo-free journey lacked both the timing and the symbolism. Royal favoritism? The Queen reportedly valued women with a work ethic, something Kate didn’t showcase before marrying in. Maybe that’s why she never got a seat beside the monarch.
The Queen never rode the Royal Train with Camilla either, even after years of marriage to the then-Prince Charles, another sign of how rare Meghan’s ride truly was.
Media Claims Ignore What The Public Already Saw
Tabloid reports this month claim Queen Elizabeth doubted Meghan and felt disturbed by their disagreements before the wedding. Much of this narrative rests on comments attributed to Lady Elizabeth Anson and royal biographers who never interacted with Meghan directly.
Their version of events contradicts what the Queen actually did. Meghan was not sidelined. She was trusted to represent the crown without Harry present, to stand beside the Queen, and to carry out duties using one of the monarchy’s most exclusive tools. This is not how the Queen treated people she feared or disapproved of.
Since Meghan and Harry stepped back from royal life, media outlets have regularly tried to recast her as divisive, controlling, or ungrateful. This effort often depends on distorting timelines, omitting key facts, or recycling old rumors as fresh revelations. The Meghan Sussex royal train engagement remains one of the strongest factual counters to that effort. It shows a woman who was not only welcomed but also elevated.
The Record Still Matters
In the years since Queen Elizabeth’s death, royal commentators have increasingly weaponized selective memory. But history remembers what really happened in Cheshire in 2018, and so do the millions who watched it unfold. The Queen’s gestures were deliberate. She understood the power of visibility, the meaning behind who rides beside her, and the symbolism of extending trust in public view.
Meghan Sussex’s royal train journey was more than ceremonial. It captured a monarch embracing her new granddaughter-in-law with grace and dignity. That public moment left a permanent mark, even if critics now attempt to rewrite it. Perhaps that’s why some voices are so desperate to distort the past, they know the bond between Meghan, Harry, and the Queen was real. So real, in fact, that Harry and Meghan named their only daughter after the Queen’s most intimate nickname. And history remembers how the British press lost its composure when that name, Lilibet, was announced.
Try as they might, no amount of revision can erase the facts. The record speaks for itself.
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It wasn’t just a ride, it was an overnight trip, they slept on the train breakfasted together, talked. Remember Meghan said the Queen shared with her that car rides helped labor. The Queen never invited any other royal wife on the train, Harry even joked that neither him nor his brother was ever invited.
The media has been trying to discount what we saw since the day it happened. It was only after Meghan talked about it, that the media suddenly “found” the footage of the Queen offering to share her blanket in the car with Meghan
The funniest par of the trip was during the walkabout when the man gave Queen Betty the flowers and asked her to give them to Meghan
Kate was never invited on the royal train, Prince William took it upon himself to go on what was essentially a joyride in the middle of COVID. No one invited him and he wasn’t wanted. Johnson at first voiced his disapproval, then calls were made and he claimed to back them. Scotland wasn’t so accommodating, they made their displeasure known. The palace tried to do a photo op with the Queen after the Wanks return. they had the Wessex present. The Queen spoke with Sophie and Edward and basically blanked Will and Kate
Then there was the bestowal of a new role for Meghan in addition to the Duchess of Sussex—royal patron of the National Theatre and vice president of the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust. Oh! how the queen must have ‘hated’ her!!!!
Yes you are right Tina. I beleive this entire royal drama is explained by Meghan’s natural talents and particularity. William was envious of Harry having a wife with the confidence and talent he would have liked Kate to have. Kate is a sweet girl but the job is beyond her and it shows. She wilted in an early TV group discussion and Meghan shone, prompting well-known author and commentator, Anna Pasternak, to say “at that point I knew it wasn’t going to work”.
ARE WE WITNESSING THE DEMISE OF JOURNALISM?
Referred to as ‘The Father of Journalism” Walter Williams, who founded the world’s first journalism school at the University of Missouri wrote “I believe that the public journal is a public trust; that all connected with it are, to the full measure of their responsibility, trustees for the public; that acceptance of a lesser service than the public service is betrayal of this trust.”
This noble statement rings in my ears whenever I read the relentlessly distorted, mentally twisted hate messages about the Duke and Duchess of Suffolk. There also seems to be in existence a social media platform consisting of an expertly organised palace troll farm such as Hitler used against the Jews and now being used to shore up a desperate and crumbling monarchy.
Social media expert, Christopher Bouzy, whose company has investigated the online trolling of Meghan, spoke about her “suicidal thoughts at the height of the abuse”. He told Newsweek “One doesn’t have to stretch to see a link between that despair and the ceaseless torrent of vilification she endured. They corrode our collective grasp on reality and decency.”
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, patronized through Buckingham Palace’s royal rota, and whose publishing reach is international, is responsible for dispensing some of the most vitriolic and distorted journalism and hate-filled claims about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Murdoch was criticized by his son, James, who was unconditional in his criticism of News Corp. policies in saying to The Atlantic, “There’s this tabloid culture that’s contrarian for the sake of it and delights in poking people in the eye. At its’ worst it metastazizes into something nasty and scary and manipulative. I underestimated the ability of a profit motive to make people do terrible things, to make companies do terrible things. Standing up to nazis is essential; there are no good nazis” he said.
Where, then, are those other committed and courageous professional journalists who are proud of their calling and life’s work to rise up against this evil which shows a biological flaw overriding reason and decency, espousing sycophancy and a hate that sets out to destroy the lives of two decent, loving and talented humanitarians and their young family, exercising their God-given right to choose their path in life?
Harry and Meghan Sussex dared to expose the innermost secrets of an anachronistic, multi-billion pound and at times racist plutocracy, sucking on the teat of struggling taxpayers to support a life of decadence and obscene wealth, claiming and presenting themselves as committed to societal benevolence and charity only to preserve a secretive, grasping and self-indulgent life. This uncaring attitude was summed up by effete King Charles in a recent tax-payer funded banquet speech with a hundred or so hangers-on, title-seekers and cronies, saying pompously “What we choose to eat helps to define us” as he salivated before they stuffed themselves with a menu of Scottish crab panzanella, Westcombe ricotta and Highgrove fine herbs, ravioli, Isle of Wight tomato passata, Suffolk red porchetta (roasted suckling pig), pumpkin and sage mash, Tuscan kale and zuppa inglese and biscotti washed down with the world’s finest wines all paid for by the taxpayer while the dinner of the struggling mass of working Brits, was defined by what they could afford to feed their kids.
Journalists who continue to support this hypocrisy lack the courage of the likes of Harry and Meghan Sussex whose strength and unflinching courage against great tyranny of unearned wealth and power sets an example described succinctly by the great Athenian philosopher, Thucydides, who wrote “ . “The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage”.
By allowing this cancer to spread any further is to see the complete betrayal of the Fourth Estate as a bastion of truth and of democracy itself.
Thank you for this well informed appraisal of the Queen’s true relationship with Meghan. which should be read by everyone who values integrity and truth. Unless the truth be told by honorable journalism and read by humanitarians who want to improve people’s lives, rather than breed hate to cause distress, then the Fourth Estate becomes a tool for powerful people to dominate a free society. Sadly, jealousy and envy pervaded this happy union and fabricated hate and bitterness in an attempt to destroy Meghan, a talented and courageous woman who threatened those of weaker character.