The Queen is being controlled by the royal institution – Harry and Meghan

Prince Harry claims that when he first sought to negotiate Megxit with Queen Elizabeth II, he was snubbed, and that even the Queen is controlled by palace CEOs.

Harry said he first shared his intentions to leave life as a senior royal in December 2019, before revealing it to the world the following month, in a new clip from his Oprah Winfrey interview published Monday morning.

In the clip aired on “CBS This Morning,” Harry told Oprah, “The contents of that was put into a letter to the institution, to my father.”

After receiving his note, he remembered receiving a warm message from his grandmother, the Queen.

“My grandmother said, ‘Come up to Sandringham as soon as you land, I'd love to have a chat,'” he remembered.

He remembered her saying, “‘Come for tea, and why don't you stay for dinner because it's going to be a long drive and you'll be tired,'” to which he replied, “I'd love that!”

However, texts from Harry's personal assistant, as well as the Queen's, soon quashed those plans, with his wife, Meghan Markle, emphasizing that the staffers were effectively “CEOs.”

Soon after he returned to the UK from Canada, officials told him that he would not be able to visit his grandmother because the Queen was “busy all week.”

Harry said he “rang her that night” because he was perplexed, and the Queen told him that “there's something in my diary that I didn't know I had.”

“So, how about the rest of the week?” I asked. ‘That's also busy right now,' she said.

“I didn't want to press because I knew what was going on,” Harry said, implying that his grandmother was acting on orders.

“Doesn't the Queen get to do what the Queen wants to do?” Oprah wondered, astounded.

“No,” Harry was adamant. “When you're the CEO of a firm, you're surrounded by people who offer you advice… He said, “and some of that advice has been really bad.”

Following the show, Anthony Mason, co-host of “CBS This Morning,” told Oprah that the clip sounded like “a secret state within the monarchy that almost runs the monarchy.”

“The question remains, why can't the Queen decide who she sees and when she sees them?” he asked Oprah, citing Markle's insistence on the distinction between the family and the “institution” or “the Firm.”

“There are people that surround ‘the family' who are advisors to the family and have been there for a long time, and that is a part of the hierarchal structure,” Oprah responded.

She said of Harry's words, “And those people have a lot of control and also feedback.”