Queen Elizabeth was quietly determined to keep harmony between Meghan Markle and Princess Kate , doing everything she could to prevent their well-documented tensions from dividing the Royal Family, according to her former butler, Grant Harrold.

RadarOnline.com can reveal the late monarch's behind-the-scenes attempts to preserve unity within the royal household came as relations between Markle, 44, and Middleton, 43, became ultra-strained in the years following Prince Harry 's engagement to the former Suits actress. Article continues below advertisement

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Initially, the pair and their husbands, Princes William and Harry – dubbed the "Fab Four" – presented a picture of togetherness when they appe

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