The takedown of two words from Meghan Markle and Prince Harry of the Queen and the royal family

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The story of how the biggest royal exhibition in history started at a transport cafe outside London with bacon and eggs in 1991.

According to Diana’s biographer Tina Brown, it was there that a young journalist named Andrew Morton and one of the princess’s old friends, Dr. James Colthurst, first met. For the next 10 months, Colthurst would act as a go-between, transporting interviews that Diana taped to Morton while working on a book about her.

Diana knew that the publication of the book and its revelations about his eating disorder, suicide attempts, and details about Charles’s infidelity would be incendiary. However, by all accounts, she made the decision to participate because she felt that going public once and for all was the final and desperate move she could make.

After a decade caught up in a farce of marriage to a man whose love lay elsewhere and after years of irritating himself against the starched stiffness of a family, in his opinion, deeply indifferent, dramatically revealing his whole hand was the last and boldest play he had. As Brown writes: “Diana’s friends … believed that she was faced with a choice: to explode or implode.”

When the book was first published in 1992 in the Sunday Times, it sent shock waves through the royal family, Britain, and the world, leaving the public paralyzed by the revelation that tore the discreet curtain that had protected the lives of Windsor. Gone are the discretion and the appearance of real kindness, and here was a decade of rage and searing pain that immediately struck the monarchy’s image hard.

While Morton’s book firmly put the public’s favor on Diana’s side, always placing the victim’s cloak on their shoulders, it infuriated the royal family and ultimately condemned its relationship with them.

This particular history lesson is worth considering, given the news that a new biography of Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, will soon hit the shelves. On August 11, Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and The Making of a Modern Royal Family will be released.

New details about the book, written by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, two real reporters known to be sympathetic to the couple, emerged over the weekend when it was listed for online presale (based on previous orders, it’s already a best seller on Amazon. )

According to the book’s description, the long-awaited title will go: “beyond the headlines to reveal unknown details of Harry and Meghan’s life together, dispelling the many rumors and misconceptions affecting the couple.”

While the Daily Mail reported last week that Harry and Meghan had been interviewed for the book, the recently revealed details instead promise that the authors had “single, written access with the participation of those closest to the couple.”

It remains to be seen what that realistically translates into, but this book has the potential to be as explosive and potentially damaging as Diana’s book.

While we don’t know exactly what level of cooperation there was between the couple, their inner circle, and the authors, this biography could also potentially open Harry and Meghan to allegations of hypocrisy.

Let’s start with the title of the tome because what exactly are the “Sussexos who find freedom”? The royal family might be a tough group that avoids hugging and enjoys killing small birds for sport, but they are generally seen as a benign, if boring, group.

Similarly, real life could be a combination of the tedious (Buckingham Palace garden parties requiring hours of devious pranks) and the stunning (hours spent trampling vast Scottish moors in the rain in summers), but it is almost as if they are trapped. behind enemy lines or suffering behind bars.

If The Firm is so abhorrent, why are they still resolutely using their titles, even liberally spraying them through official releases? If monarchy was something they needed to escape from, why still keep property on the Queen’s Windsor estate and accept money from Prince Charles?

Also, if, according to the authors, the couple is “determined to create a new path away from the spotlight,” why have they moved to the paparazzi capital of the world?

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Several members of the royal family have cooperated with friendly journalists and writers over the years, including Prince Charles and Prince Philip, but these efforts were essentially blatant public relations gambits to project the particular HRH in a rosy, flattering light .

Here, the choice of title seems to suggest that this work could go beyond simply extolling the wonders of Harry and Meghan and could also target monarchy.

If Finding Freedom offers an incendiary view of the royal family, it is emphasized if, and it is evident that the renegade couple has somehow collaborated with the perpetrators, then this would be straying into particularly dangerous territory. This type of movement could seriously, perhaps fatally, damage the already delicate relationship between the Sussex and the Windsor.

If this is the case, it seems likely that they (like Diana and Fergie before them) will be pushed to the periphery of real life and be the death sentence for any future meeting with the Queen and the Company.

And that is neglecting the fact that it would be profoundly painful, especially for Queen and Prince Charles as Harry’s grandmother and father, and given that they have both worked tirelessly for a decade after a boring and boring decade in the service of the monarchy .

No matter what salacious details are not offered in this biography, news of his impending arrival will surely be as welcome behind the Palace gates as a troop of PETA’s most ardent supporters in a shooting at Sandringham.

The publication of the book is likely to trigger a global media storm, even if that just means having to deal with a bag of rumors already running that have been reaffirmed in thousands of news reports.

Given that the royal family is currently enjoying a particular purple patch in terms of public support thanks to its chipper efforts during the coronavirus crisis, this type of personal media disorder is exactly what they would be desperate to avoid.

While the couple have yet to confirm or deny their participation in Finding Freedom, or comment on it at all, August 11 is likely to be a particularly stressful day on both sides of the Atlantic. The stakes have never been so high.

Daniela Elser is a real expert and writer with 15 years of experience working with several leading media titles in Australia. This article was first published on news.com.au.