Harry and Meghan’s biography says “Relations with the Royal Family will reach a new level” as Palace experts fear the couple “use the book to settle accounts”
- Experts believe the ‘resentful’ couple will use the biography to ‘settle accounts’
- Excerpts from ‘Finding Freedom’ to be seen for the first time this weekend
- It is written by the royal watchers of ‘cheerleader’ Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand
A biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, dubbed by palace insiders ‘The Gospel According to Harry and Meghan’, is set to plunge relations with the royal family to a new level.
Sources believe the “resentful” couple will use the book, excerpts of which will be seen for the first time this weekend, to “settle accounts.”
Finding Freedom: Harry, Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family, has been written by royal observers Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, described as the ‘cheerleaders’ of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
The authors boast that the book published next month has been written “with the participation of those closest to the couple.”
There have been reports that Harry and Meghan have spoken to the authors personally, although this has not been confirmed.
A biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, dubbed by palace insiders ‘The Gospel According to Harry and Meghan’, is set to plunge relations with the royal family to a new level. Photo Shows: The couple in Rabat, Morocco, in February last year.
The question of how far the couple have cooperated with the authors is interesting given the context of Meghan’s legal battle with The Mail on Sunday over the publication of a letter she wrote to her father.
Thomas Markle says he only released the letter after some of his closest friends revealed their existence to an American magazine. Meghan states that she had no idea that they were going to do this and that the letter should have remained private.
Interestingly, sources told the Mail that Harry and Meghan had initially been concerned when they learned of the plans for the biography and ordered their staff to speak to the authors to find out what was going to be in it.
It is believed that several meetings and dinners were later held. “When they realized that it was likely to be a great hagiography anyway, it appears that the Sussexs kindly decided to kill her,” a source said.
Pictured: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex with Prince William and Kate at the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey in March last year
Finding Freedom: Harry, Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family, has been written by royal observers Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand
Sources told Mail that the biography will expose the “pressure cooker” of anger and resentment the couple felt as members of royalty.
Harry and Meghan claim they were “spectacularly unsupported” by what they described as the “institution of monarchy,” and top staff are expected to be in their line of fire.
“Regardless of the truth, it will make headlines around the world and give Sussex’s long list of complaints a complete air once again,” said one well-positioned figure.
Another source told the Post that they had been warned to expect a “revisionist” version of events related to their engagement, marriage, and a brief stint as royalty.
“It is going to be the gospel according to Meghan and Harry, so to speak,” they said. ‘Everything that has happened in terms of Megxit will be seen through the prism of its taking of events.
However, it is unlikely to reveal how it subsequently emerged that Harry and Meghan had quietly planned their ‘departure’ from the Royal Family for at least nine months before they finally announced their decision to resign in January this year.
“That hurt many people who had leaned back to protect them.” Members of the couple’s circle say that Harry, while loyal to Meghan, was very divided on how to resolve the situation. But Meghan was extremely vocal about how unhappy he was and Harry, who had always hated the media and the so-called ‘men in gray suits’. [at the palace]they finally saw this as a way out too, “they said.
The Mail understands that Buckingham Palace fears the book will destroy any hope that Harry and Meghan will mend their relationships with the rest of the Royal Family.
Sources say the Sussex are “still somewhat shocked” by recent events.
“Truth be told, they didn’t think things would end the way they did,” said one. “But they are stubborn and they are firmly convinced that they have done the right thing, regardless of the consequences.”
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