“I looked at the BBC website. My grandmother had died. My father was King.”

After Harry arrived at Balmoral, he is said to have been met by his aunt, the Princess Royal, who had been staying with the 96-year-old monarch at the Scottish estate. Harry recalls the devastating question Anne asked when he arrived.

He added: “She asked if I wanted to see Granny. [I answered,] ‘Yes, I do.’

Harry said his grandmother’s bedroom seemed “unfamiliar” when he went to see her. He described the moment as “difficult” but said he “kept on thinking how I’d regretted not seeing my mother at the end,” reported US magazine.

Hary, 40, says he was “in awe” of his grandmother for working through to her final days. The Queen met then Prime Minister Liz Truss just 48 hours before her death.

Truss succeeded Boris Johnson as Prime Minister on September 6. She resigned however just 49 days later – the shortest term of any PM.

September 19 marks the two year anniversary of the late Queen’s funeral.