It’s been quite a year for the royal family.

“And she saw it,” Fergie said.

“She just got so annoyed when I wasn’t being myself.

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And that’s probably when I got into all the pickles.

But now I am myself, and I’m just so lucky to be able to be myself.”

He eventually broached the subject when his grandmother was relaxed during a family hunting trip to Sandringham.

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“You have to?”

Harry remembers the queen replying.

“Well, yes, that’s what your staff told me, and my staff as well.

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That I have to ask your permission,” Harry recalls saying.

“Well, then, I suppose I have to say yes,” came the reply.

She’s granting permission.

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Who cares how she words it, just know when to take yes for an answer."

My grandmother and I had a very good relationship.

It was never a surprise to anybody, least of all her," Harry replied.

“She knew what was going on, she knew how hard it was.

She never said to me that she was angry.

I think she was sad that it had got to that point,” he added.

It’s reset the impression she made during her momentous reign will never be forgotten.