Queen Elizabeths heartbreaking last birthday message to Prince Harry – as he turns 39

Prince Harry turns 39 today, 15 September, a year after his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II passed away "peacefully" at the age of 96 on her Balmoral estate.

Her final birthday message to the Duke of Sussex came two years ago when he turned 37, at which point the Royal Family Twitter account shared four photos of him – including of him and his wife Meghan Markle, 41, in Australia back in 2018 and another of him with schoolchildren in Botswana. At the time, she simply wrote: "Wishing The Duke of Sussex a happy birthday today!"

His birthday will be spent with Meghan at his side as she joined him at the Invictus Games in Germany, after missing the opening days of the event, which was founded by Harry in 2014. Her late Majesty was buried with the Duke of Edinburgh in King George VI’s chapel in Windsor Castle in a private service just over a week after her passing.

Since the Queen's death and his father's Coronation, Harry has gone on to publish his tell-all book Spare, which shocked the nation with some of his admissions and allegations, including those against his brother Prince William, and the rest of the Royal Family In the book, Harry recalled a moment with the late Queen as he asked her permission to marry his wife.

He wrote that when he informed her that she needed his permission to pop the question, she replied that she "supposed" she "had to" say yes. He penned: "I didn't get it. Was she being sarcastic? Ironic? Deliberately cryptic? Was she indulging in a bit of wordplay?

“I'd never known Granny to do any wordplay and this would be a surprisingly bizarre moment (not to mention widely inconvenient) for her to start, but maybe she just saw the chance to play off my unfortunate use of the word 'have' and couldn't resist." Though he has returned to the UK a few times since his grandmother was laid to rest, such as for the King's Coronation, he did not see his dad when he returned most recently on the anniversary of the Queen's death.

Harry also spoke candidly in his and Meghan's Netflix documentary which was released at the end of 2022. In it, he talked about his mum, Princess Diana, and the "good job" she did in protecting her children.

He explained: "Paparazzi used to harass us to the point of where we had to be forced into smiling and answering questions to the travelling press pack. And that made me feel really uncomfortable from the get-go," he continued as footage of him and the other royal children were told to smile to the cameras in Switzerland.

He continued to say that Diana did "such a good job" in trying to protect her two sons from the cameras and the press as the weren't left alone. She took it upon herself to basically confront these people."

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