Royal biographer Angela Levin today questioned whether Harry and Meghan’s decision to wind down their window to greet crowds yesterday was consistent with their fears about their security and an alleged promise to keep a low profile when in the UK.  

Ms Levin, a royal commentator and author of several biographies of senior members of the family, hit out at the couple during an interview on Talk TV. 

She said she was ‘very angry’ when the couple were seen with their window down as they travelled through crowds near Buckingham Palace. Meghan was seen briefly waving as they passed by onlookers. 

Ms Levin said they had ‘fought for more security’ but seemed happy to ‘wind down the window and wave’.

The couple have been denied 24/7 armed protection from British Police after stepping down as working royals. Harry is taking legal action against the Home Office over the decision.

Harry has since claimed he does not feel safe when bringing his family to the UK and was ‘unable to return home’ over fears it is too dangerous. He had even offered to pay for British police bodyguards himself – but the Met said that their officers cannot be paid for. 

However, the Queen did send a car and a security detail to collect Harry and Meghan and their children Archie and Lilibet when they landed at Farnborough Airport earlier this week after flying from their home in America.

The Duchess of Sussex, 40, was in high spirits as she gazed and waved out of the window, with a more reserved Harry, 37, peeking over her shoulder. 

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex reportedly told the Queen before their arrival in the UK earlier this week that they would keep a low profile and stick to appearing only at public engagements. 

The couple did not have a place on the Buckingham Palace balcony with senior members of the Royal Family yesterday because they are no longer working royals. 

Instead, they were pictured enjoying the scenes from a balcony on Horse Guards Parade. 

Royal biographer Angela Levin today slammed Harry and Meghan for greeting crowds from the window of their car yesterday, amid the ongoing row over their personal security

The couple made a low-key appearance at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations and did not have a place on the Buckingham Palace balcony with senior members of the Royal Family because they are no longer working royals. Instead, they were pictured enjoying the scenes from a balcony on Horse Guards Parade. Above: The couple speak to the Duke of Kent, the Queen’s cousin, from the balcony where they watched celebrations

Ms Levin said: ‘I felt when I saw them what are you doing here you are irrelevant. 

‘Why are you here. I was very angry when they wound the window down of their car.

‘They are people who fought for more security, the utmost security yet they were happy to wind the window down and wave. Why’re they doing that?

‘Harry said he felt like he was in a zoo [when he was a working royal] so what he was doing waving to all the people. Why would you want to do that?’

Ms Levin also took aim at Meghan, who she claimed had ‘absolutely trashed the royal family’. 

‘She has made it very very difficult for the senior members who have the discipline not to fight back in public,’ she added. 

‘My instinct was that what are you doing here. I don’t think you can trash someone and then turn up with smiles.’

However, Meghan Markle’s friend Omid Scobie, who penned the Finding Freedom biography about her and Prince Harry, insisted that the couple wanted to be as ‘low profile as possible’ during their trip. 

Speaking to the BBC today, he said: ‘It is almost hard to believe, but I think that yesterday at Trooping the Colour was a great example. We didn’t really catch sight of them on TV cameras. 

‘There were a few grainy photos of them in existence online but that is about as far as it goes.’ 

The video of the couple emerged as the Queen was spotted arriving back at Windsor Castle on Thursday afternoon, after kicking off her Platinum Jubilee and joining senior royals on the Buckingham Palace balcony. 

Building manager Emily Sevenoaks, 28, said she had no idea it was the Sussexes when she decided to start filming on Cleveland Row in St James, central London. 

‘I Honestly had no idea it was them,’ she told MailOnline, ‘I heard police escorts and flew over with the camera ready and then I realised mid filming… I was very lucky!’ 

She said the black Audi and police escort had come out of the gated Stable Yard road, which allows access to Clarence House and St James’s palace. 

The Duchess of Sussex, 40, was in high spirits as she gazed out of the window, with a more reserved Harry, 37, peeking over her shoulder while they travelled through throngs of royal fans near Buckingham Palace at around 12.20pm 

The Duchess of Sussex, 40, was in high spirits as she gazed and waved out of the window, with a more reserved Harry, 37, peeking over her shoulder

The couple were believed to be on their way to Buckingham Palace ahead of the historic flypast, which featured 71 aircraft.  

Social media users were quick to comment on the clip, with one Twitter user declaring: ‘Her smile says ‘I’m baaaackk b*****s.’ [Sic].

Others said Harry looked ‘stressed’, while another added: ‘Harry is already on high alert. Look at his face.’ 

Tougher critics mocked Meghan for rolling the window of the car down after Harry recently claimed he was ‘unable to return home’ from Los Angeles because the UK was too dangerous. 

One Twitter user jibed: ‘When you are petrified about security issues but still choose to pull the window down for a photo-op in the Queen’s procession.’ 

The Audi car that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were in with blacked out windows as they drove down the Mall in London with two police protection offices in it followed by another three close behind

The car that followed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex as it travelled down The Mall contained three Met police officers

The Sussexes were not allowed on the Buckingham Palace balcony yesterday, following Megxit, but did join other royals in the Major General’s Office overlooking Horse Guards Parade in central London for Trooping the Colour.

An animated Meghan appeared to playfully ‘shush’ a group of young royals as they stood at a window overlooking the parade, while Harry was later seen mimicking the gesture in a separate photo.

Though their appearance ended months of speculation on whether the Sussexes would attend the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, there was no sign of their children Archie and Lilibet, who are also believed to be in the UK.

Today, the couple are set to attend the Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral. 

It will be the first time they have attended an event together with other senior royals – including Prince Charles, Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge – since 2020’s Commonwealth Day service, which was their last official engagement. 

Harry did attend Prince Philip’s funeral last April and then united with his brother Prince William to unveil a statue of their mother Princess Diana at Kensington Palace.