The bee, the fly and the wasp… Harry gives codenames for Queen’s top aides involved in ‘Megxit deal’

The three top palace advisers who helped negotiate the Megxit deal are nicknamed the Bee, the Fly and the Wasp in the book.

The trio are said to have been the private secretaries of the older kings at the time; or Edward Young, who worked for the queenSimon Case who worked for Prince Williamand Clive Alderton for then Prince Charles.

Harry writes: ‘I’ve dealt with courtiers all my life, dozens of them. But now I was dealing primarily with three middle-aged white men who, through a series of daring Machiavellian maneuvers, had succeeded in consolidating power.

They had common names… but it’s easier to sort them into zoological categories. The bee, the fly and the wasp. The bee had an oval and soft face, and he used to glide about with great calm and composure, as if he were a gift to all living things.’

Fly had ‘spent most of his career nearby and was really drawn to him. The entrails of the government and the media and the entrails of worms, he loved it, he grew fat on it, he happily got his hands on it.”

Harry said of The Wasp: ‘Because he seemed so barren, so self-deprecating, you might have been tempted to back off, stand your ground, and that’s when he put you on his list.

“Shortly after, without warning, he would sting you with his oversized stinger so much that you would cry out in confusion. Where the hell did that come from?’

Pictured: Queen Elizabeth II, Harry and Meghan watch the Royal Air Force Centenary aircraft from the balcony of Buckingham Palace on July 10, 2018