Last Word or Last Blow? Queen Elizabeth's 'Startling' Meghan Markle Comment Left Castle Insiders Stunned Just Weeks Before Monarch's Death

In the weeks before Queen Elizabeth II died at Balmoral Castle on September 8, 2022, the revered monarch decided to get candid about her thoughts on Meghan Markle during a drinks reception," RadarOnline.com has learned.

Her late Majesty summed up her granddaughter-in-law in one grim word that left gathered dinner guests and castle insiders "stunned."

Often referred to as "the most forgiving woman on earth" next to the late Mother Teresa, insiders described how "everybody’s eyebrows hit the ceiling" when the Queen called the Duchess of Sussex "evil."

"It was out of character for the Queen to use such a word as 'evil' to describe Meghan, but she saw straight through her," one guest shared. "It was a startling sentence to hear from the most forgiving woman on earth. At the drinks before the dinner, a small group were talking to the monarch and she explained that Harry meeting Meghan had become a complete catastrophe and described her as evil."

The source then added, "By this point, we all knew the Queen’s health was in decline and she had months left, she seemed regretful about how things had panned out."

Elizabeth II's penultimate prime minister Boris Johnson went on to reveal the monarch had been battling bone cancer during the final year of her life.

The Queen was spared from having to go through the uproarious scandal December 2022's Netflix doc Harry & Meghan brought to the Crown.

The Duke of Sussex was not amused when his wife mocked Elizabeth II in the documentary many quickly relabeled a "trashy reality show with a big budget."

"One of the most contentious moments, among British viewers at least, was when a smirking Meghan performed a comic repeat of her first curtsey to the queen," Robert Hardman wrote in his new book, Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story. "The queasy look of discomfort on Harry's face was that of a man all too aware of the consequences yet unable to do anything about it."

"And I remember we were in the car, and we were driving up, and he's like, 'You know how to curtsy, right?' And I just thought it was a joke," the ex-actress turned royal, now strawberry jam promoter shared in the doc.

"It's surreal. It wasn't like some big moment of like, 'Now you're going to meet my grandmother.' I didn't know I was going to meet her until moments before," she added.

At that point, the former actress then performs a pantomime, over-exaggerated-like rendition of a curtsey while laughingly sharing, "Pleasure to meet you, your Majesty."

Elizabeth II and Meghan only attended one joint royal engagement together in June 2018.

Daily Mirror reported on the insider revelations.