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The final half of this project was a forensic examination of the couple’s acrimonious split from the Windsor clan, and it was clearly presented through a Sussex lens. But Harry and Meghan’s goal has never been to take down the monarchy. It was to speak their truth and defend themselves against how they have been represented in the tabloid press. The fact that some of their comments have had a negative effect on the family was an unfortunate result of speaking up.
The first three episodes of the project were released on Thursday after months of speculation that the couple would star in a tell all series.
Under the watchful eye of Harry’s grandmother Elizabeth II, beloved as she was, Britain’s royal family was never known for being open and forthcoming. By contrast, Meghan, very much a child of her generation, explains in the the documentary that “a big part of life is connecting and communicating.” If there was a culture clash, it would be.
Buckingham and Kensington Palaces will likely be braced for the fallout from the series, after sustained tensions between Harry and his father, King Charles, and brother, Prince William.
It’s hard to remember what happened now, but what happened in the past? Like how did we end up here?,” Harry said in a video diary shown in the first episode, recorded shortly after the pair finished their final royal duties in March 2020.
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He said he became “genuinely concerned for the safety of my family,” attacking the intrusion of the media, which he has frequently lamented in recent years.
Prince Harry didn’t fully understand which part of what he was talking about. He may have predicted what the British press was going to do.
The couple said their popularity with the public caused issues within the royal household, with their tour in Australia being described in the documentary as a turning point.
It marks the first major public relations test for the monarchy and King Charles III, who has been criticized by his son Harry since their split from the family.
Buckingham Palace said it wouldn’t comment on the documentary on Thursday. The prince and princess of Wales are going to join King Charles and his wife, the Queen Consort, for a Christmas service in London and visit a community kitchen.
The couple have spoken before about the constraints placed on them while members of the royal family, and that frustration re-emerged repeatedly in the documentary.
The relationship of Harry and his bride has come under intense scrutiny in the last year, with special attention being given to the duchess.
“The lies, that’s one thing. You kind of get used to that when you live within this family,” Harry added. “But what they were doing to her, and the effect it was having on her… enough. Enough of the suffering and the pain.
“I said the difference here is the race element,” Harry added. The pair decried against racist undertones in the tabloid coverage of a biracial woman.
“These are the skeletons in the closet that frequently make an unwelcome appearance in daily life in this family – sometimes, you know, you’re part of the problem rather than part of the solution and there is a huge level of unconscious bias,” Harry said.
“The thing with unconscious bias is actually no one’s fault, but once it’s been pointed out or identified within yourself, you then need to make it right,” he said.
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In a telling section on his experience of other royal marriages, Harry said: “I think for so many people in the family, especially the men, there can be a temptation or an urge to marry someone who would fit the mold, as opposed to somebody who you perhaps are destined to be with.
“The actress thing was the biggest problem, funnily enough,” said Meghan. There was a big idea about what it would look like in the UK. Hollywood – it was very easy for them to typecast that.”
Harry also compared Meghan to his mother, Princess Diana, who died in a car crash while being chased by paparazzi in 1997. “So much of what Meghan is and how she is is so similar to my mum … She has the same confidence, she has this warmth about her,” he said in the first episode.
I remember wondering how can I find a person who would be willing and capable to stand up to all the baggage I bring with me. He said what he said.
The duchess discussed her estrangement from her father following a controversy over whether he staged a series of paparazzi style photographs in the lead up to their 2018 wedding.
“Of course, it’s incredibly sad what happened – she had a father before this and now she doesn’t have a father. The fact that I shouldered that is because if Meg was not with me then her dad would still be her dad.
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The first three episodes were released on Thursday, with three more scheduled for next week. Interviews were completed in August, the month before the Queen’s death, according to the series.
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There are going to be more revelations over the palace gates this Thursday as the first three episodes of a series on the relationship between Prince Harry and his wife are released.
Prince William, the heir to the throne and Harry’s older brother, defended the royal family after the interview, telling reporters, “We’re very much not a racist family.”
Let’s just stipulate that racism probably played a role in the scurrilous press coverage and barely-disguised slights – including from some within the royal family – that Meghan Markle has been subjected to in Britain.
In the United Kingdom, the program will be watched carefully because the program contains misleading images to back up the emotional narration.
In one section of the footage, clips of paparazzi are spliced together with old footage of Princess Diana being followed by the media as Harry says in a voiceover: “The pain and suffering of women marrying into this institution, this feeding frenzy. … I was terrified that history would repeat itself.
However, one of the clips used to illustrate his words appears to show reporters and photographers waiting for TV star Katie Price arriving outside Crawley Magistrates Court, Sky News reported.
Prince Harry is also expected to go into greater detail about his life in and out of the Royal Family in an upcoming television interview with British network ITV, in which he has said, “I want a family, not an institution.”
There is a picture of a photographer on a balcony as the couple and their son are walking down the balcony. While the scene suggests the photographer was covertly snapping pictures of a private moment, the photo actually shows an accredited press photographer who was covering the couple’s meeting with Desmond Tutu in 2019.
The royal couple are not trying to destroy the royal family, but are simply doing their job. Judging from the reaction of some critics, they are speaking their truth as unpleasantly as it could be.
The Daily Telegraph, one of Britain’s most influential papers, picked up on this theme in their coverage of William and Kate’s trip to Boston, where they handed out environmental prizes and met with anti-violence advocates.
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Meg and I had met on the photo-sharing website. I was reading through my feed. Someone who was a friend had this video of the two of them with the like Snapchat thing … like dog ears.” Harry said, “Who is that?”
Harry recalled: “I was panicking, I was freaking out. I started sweating. Unaware of this, Meghan began to doubt that the date would go anywhere, thinking he might have an “ego.”
During a visit to Africa in August 2016 the couple said they had been together for a long time, and had only met him twice before.
He recalled learning as a young child how to handle the attention, saying: “Within the family, within the system, the advice that’s always given is ‘don’t react. Don’t feed into it.’”
Footage of family ski holidays was included to highlight this. The video shows a group of people in front of a crowd of photographers, including Prince William, Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice, as well as Harry. In the video, they are seen agreeing to be photographed by a crowd of photographers in order to give them privacy later in the holiday. But that was followed by another more intrusive clip which led to his mother confronting the photographer.
Prince Harry thinks that is pretty shocking to people. Especially when you realize how many palace sources, palace insiders, senior palace officials, how many quotes are being attributed to those people, some of the most heinous, horrible things have been said about me and my wife, completely condoned by the palace because it’s coming from the palace, and those journalists have literally been spoon-fed that narrative without ever coming to us, without ever seeing or questioning the other side.”
Growing up, he witnessed “pain and suffering of women marrying into this institution.” He added: “What happened to my mum … I didn’t want history to repeat itself.”
Making decisions with your head or your heart is different. Most of my mum’s decisions were made from her heart. And I am my mother’s son.”
“I accept that there will be people around the world who fundamentally disagree with what I’ve done and how I’ve done it. But I knew that I had to do everything I could to protect my family, especially after what happened to my mum.”
“He was 6’1”, a handsome man with red hair, really great manners. He was just really nice. And they looked really happy together. Yeah, like he was the one,” she said.
Describing the early years of her daughter’s childhood, Ragland – who is African American – recalled repeatedly being asked if she was the nanny as her daughter’s skin was lighter.
Oblivious to royal protocol, she said she was “barefoot” and wearing ripped jeans at the time. She described herself as ahugger but said it can be difficult for some British people.
“I guess I started to understand very quickly that the formality on the outside carried through on the inside,” she said. It was surprising to me that the formality carried over on both sides.
Harry asked how she could explain to her grandmother that she bows to her. And that you all need to curtsy. Particularly to an American. That is weird.
He went on to say that members of his family were “incredibly impressed,” though were uncertain about the difference in their backgrounds and thought that her being a Hollywood actress meant “this won’t last.”
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Harry even addressed the time when he wore a Nazi uniform to a private party in 2005, saying it was one of the “biggest mistakes” of his life, adding that he felt “so ashamed afterwards.”
Meghan opened up about her half-sister Samantha Markle, who she said she hadn’t seen since her early twenties but who frequently spoke of her in the media.
Mek said he did not know your middle name. I don’t know your birthday. You’re telling these people that you raised me, and you’ve coined me ‘Princess Pushy.’”
Right and left in Britain are very different these days. “Harry & Meghan,” the intimate Netflix series released Thursday, is quickly shaping up to be the exception.
The Independent, a more centrist player in British media, was less savage, but not exactly admiring, calling the series both “self-aggrandizing” and “wildly entertaining.” In her review, the couple is adorable and sympathetic, and the points they made aboutracism in Britain are eloquent.
Piers Morgan, who has been vociferously critical of the couple in the past, wastes no time laying into the series in his scathing review in The Sun, a tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch:
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What are the biggest victims right now? You might think it’s the poor people of Ukraine as they’re bombed, shot and raped by Putin’s invading barbarians. Those that have lost their lives to the Covid outbreak continue to suffer long-term illnesses. The cost-of- living crisis has caused financial hardship for millions of people.
But no. The world’s biggest victims are Prince Harry and his fiancée, the model, actress, and reality show star, Diana, Princess of Wales.
Morgan warned viewers that they may need a sick bucket. He was not the only one to evoke gastrointestinal distress. The first three episodes were so sickening I almost brought up my breakfast according to the headline in the left-leaning Guardian.
She points out that the series so far has many sweet moments, particularly of Prince Harry and Megan being charming and funny together, but she eventually finds the finished product wanting.
What are we left with in the end? Exactly the same story we always knew, told in the way we would expect to hear it from the people who are telling it. Those who don’t care won’t watch. Those who watch the soap operas are voyeuristically invested in the real-life soap operas and will still read anything they want to and confirm their previous ideas. There is plenty here to start another round of tabloid frenzy, particularly in Harry’s mention of members of the royal family who consider the pressure placed on anyone “marrying in” a rite of passage and resist allowing anyone else to avoid what their own spouses went through, and who bow to internal pressure to choose a wife who “fits the mould.” Which is to say — it is hard to see who, beyond the media, the villains of the piece, will really gain from this?
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But who’s to say that people haven’t gotten a glimpse of who they are? Their version is heavily produced, edited and controlled, more honest than any other version that has come before. It’s striking how much the filtered version of events functions in the series as their version of real life. Meghan recalls how when she first got connected with Harry, she wanted to review his Instagram feed as a way to get to know him, and social media posts comprise a significant portion of the archive that guides their narrative together.
Just as disappointing is the series’ content, which is a lot of the same we’ve already seen or heard. There are new aspects but there is little payoff and little to change peoples’ minds about them. It is self-aggrandizing and a little boring. They are not more likeable and maybe a lot less so. Notably, it’s perhaps the first time that much of the dislike is directed toward Harry, instead of just Meghan.
Whereas once he may have been viewed by the public as a hapless victim of a cunning attention seeker, or suffering from a form of “repetition compulsion” in which he’s repeating in his adult life a scenario familiar to him from growing up Princess Diana’s son, viewers will surely now have less sympathy. With “Harry & Meghan,” it’s clear that he’s willfully chosen to see what he wants to see.
“It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that simply weren’t true, and my grandmother quietly sit there and sort of take it all in,” said Harry.
According to Harry, the Queen told him that she was busy all week. “I was like, wow,” Harry said. “This is when a family and a family business are in direct conflict … really what they’re doing is blocking a grandson from seeing his grandmother,” added Meghan.
There are ways to do things from the perspective of the family. She is going to go on the advice she is given and that is her ultimate goal.
Harry said that there was jealousy from the other royals because of the amount of media attention she was getting. He said, “The issue is when someone who is marrying in, who should be a supporting act, is then stealing the limelight or is doing the job better than the person who is born to do this.”
That makes people upset. The balance is upset by it. Because you have been led to believe that the only way that your charities can succeed and your mission can grow is if you are on the front pages of those newspapers.”
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Meghan recounted how she suffered a miscarriage in July 2020 after moving to Santa Barbara, California, recalling how she was stressed about how UK newspaper the Mail on Sunday had published a private letter to her father, Thomas Markle.
She described experiencing suicidal ideation, telling the filmmakers she believed “all of this will stop if I’m not here. And that was the scariest thing about it, it was such clear thinking.”
In the fifth episode of the show, she said she did everything she could to make them proud, and that she was a part of the family. “And then the bubble burst.”
While he didn’t want to discuss the situation with the rest of the family, Harry did mention it to his father and brother. Prince William and King Charles were both focused on misinterpretation of the situation.
The couple criticized the Queen’s aides but were complimentary of the monarch, who died in September at the age of 96.
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A Netflix episode of Prince Harry and the rifts with his family in recent TV series ” I was being fed to the wolves”, by R. J. Bradby
The rifts with his family are some of the things Harry describes in these latest installments.
The couple said that media coverage turned negative because of her association with racists such as drugs, criminality or terrorism.
We’ve all read the headlines about how Meghan recounted even considering taking her own life as she unsuccessfully tried to navigate what Harry called a “drip feed of constant attack.” He said that he and his wife had to endure institutional gaslighting. One of the most quoted lines from the series was ” I was being fed to the wolves”, in whichMeghan describes feeling that she had been thrown to the wolves. The allegations made in the series were not responded to by Buckingham Palace.
She was remarking on an interview a few years back in which a reporter had simply asked her, “Are you OK?” Her response, as tears welled in her eyes, made world headlines: “Thank you for asking, because not many people have asked if I’m OK.”
A narrative developed that the couple were being selfish for not doing a traditional photo call shortly after the birth of a royal baby, and Harry remembers seeing a post on social media of a couple walking either side of a chimpanzee alongside the caption: “Royal baby leaves hospital.”
“The seriousness of what has happened to her and what … happened to us, and what continues to happen to her, that needs to be acknowledged,” said Harry.
“It’s not just some tabloid. It’s not just some story. You are frightening me. That’s real. Are my babies safe? And you’ve created it for what? I don’t think people understand why you are bored or selling your papers.
Prince Harry told Bradby that the British press want to create conflict and that is what they are talking about. “The saddest part of that is certain members of my family and the people that work for them are complicit in that conflict.”
In this Netflix episode, Harry claims he was not aware of the statement. “No one had asked me permission to put my name to a statement like that,” he said.
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Do we know that the miscarriage was caused by that? We do not. He said that the miscarriage was created by what they were trying to do to her, and that the stress caused by lack of sleep, and the timing of thePregnancy, how many weeks in she was, were all factors.
It took reporters six weeks to find out that the couple had moved into the Hollywood home of Tyler Perry, before they published the location of their new home.
“These large poles are basically the construction of a fence to stop paparazzi from taking photographs from three, four hundred meters away,” said Harry. “And as ridiculous and as absurd as this is, you kind of have to laugh about it, because it is madness.”
Harry tells viewers that Archie had moved to California before Lilibet was born, and that he spent only the first five months of his life in the UK.
“This is home to him, this is home to Lili, and this is our home,” said Harry, who added that life is very different for the family in the US. I get to do things with our kids that I would never be able to do in the UK.
The episodes picked back up from 2018 as Prince Harry married Meghan at Windsor. The pair recalled fond memories, such as the time Prince Charles stepped in to escort her down the aisle after helping with musical arrangements for the big day.
With few real revelations in last week’s Netflix release, these episodes were more forceful. The picture Harry painted of the royal household wasn’t especially flattering. He presented a frosty, siloed environment, where suspicion and mistrust guide household staff, who are unsympathetic to their experiences.
In the recent six-part Netflix documentary, Prince Harry didn’t hold back when he blamed the press for causing stress to his wife and then she had a baby.
The duke recalled how his brother lost his temper during a crucial summit at the Windsor Estate when he and Harry discussed the couple’s long-term future.
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Part of his responsibility is the continuation of the institution, and that is something that has already been ingrained in him.
As Harry himself says, “I’ve always felt this was a fight worth fighting for” even if it’s come at the cost of his relationship with his father and brother.
He said in the end of the final episode that he had had to have peace with the fact that we are probably never going to get a genuine apology. “My wife and I are moving on, we’re focused on what’s coming next.”
In both those royal exposés, the couple outlined their acrimonious split with the House of Windsor and blamed the media for invasive, unrelenting coverage, particularly of Meghan.
The premiere of the mostviewed documentary in the first week of its debut featured some of the most famous members of their generation. The Sussexes are speaking their truth in language that isn’t used by their royal betters.
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“Be the One You Need: 21 Life Lessons I Learned Taking Care of Everyone but Me” by Harry and Meghan, a British divorcee
One organization governing the media in the UK admitted that there was a lot of work left to be done when it came to covering race issues. Journalists of color protested over the coverage they received of Prince Harry and his wife, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, after their interview with Oprah Winfrey. The current firestorm over their new Netflix docuseries suggests to me that the media’s work in confronting this bias remains unfinished.
But the decidedly chilly reception that the Duchess of Sussex received as a “mixed-race” American divorcee – one of the major through lines of the six-part series in which she and Harry bare their souls – wasn’t really the main point of the project.
I “get” Harry and Meghan. I wrote my book, “Be the One You Need: 21 Life Lessons I Learned Taking Care of Everyone but Me” because some of the same things I experienced in my family are what I need in my life. What I find fascinating is how clueless many people seem to be about family estrangement and break-ups, rife as they are in these modern times.
It’s a vivid lesson in how to look after oneself when the people around you not only don’t seem to care if you survive, but also seem to be secretly, actively making sure you don’t thrive. And it provides an in-depth window into surviving familial conflict, navigating outsize personalities and cavernous gulfs dividing close relatives. That can be especially hard when you’re struggling to maintain your sense of autonomy and your own integrity while trapped in a system that affords you very little of either.
At least, that’s the plot line that resonates most for me, because I have lived aspects of their story, although on a much more modest scale. In fact, my guess is that many of the millions of people who have watched the series can relate. We’ve had to learn over the years that no matter how much you may want to heal broken relationships, you have to know ultimately when to walk away and how to take care of yourself.
The Sussexes both experienced unhappiness in childhood because of divorce. She describes moving between her mother’s home in California and her dad’s home in Colorado.
Harry’s story is not just sad, but tragic: The second son born to Diana, who died in a car crash in 1997, he marched solemnly behind her coffin, showing Britain that even as a 12-year old, he was already a perfect, stoic member of the royal family. That is a lot to ask of a child.
I’m surprised at how shocked some people seem to be that as members of a millennial generation famous for sharing and sometimes oversharing, Meghan and Harry did not hold back when it came to airing their dirty laundry about the dysfunction within the royal fold.
They don’t want to be saddled with strictures of tradition even if it comes adorned with a tiara and conveyed in a golden carriage. When millennials spill the tea, they do so publicly – in videos and on social media.
The comments gave us insight into the toll that being a new duchess can take. They were also eerily reminiscent of remarks made by a young Princess Diana, who in a now infamous BBC interview described how she too had been hung out to dry in a family that does not always warmly welcome outsiders who marry into their ranks.
The British monarchy is an aging institution defined by tradition, delusion, even hubris. The monarchy has waning power, influence, and relevance. The royal family had a unique opportunity to evolve after Harry and Monica met. They could have made it relevant in a diverse and complicated world. While the Commonwealth comprises 56 countries, King Charles reigns as monarch over the United Kingdom and 14 Commonwealth realms, lingering vestiges of British imperialism. A documentary notes that the people of the Commonwealth are mostly people of color. Here, the royals had a biracial woman joining their ranks. Many Black Britons believed that the power and reach of the monarchy could be expanded to them, because of its attractiveness to them.
Meghan might have been the very addition to the family who could have helped build a bridge to the next generation of Britons – and to the overwhelmingly Black and brown inhabitants of Britain’s Commonwealth nations. It was an opportunity that has been wasted.
The series showed the footage and the images don’t lie. Kate and William, two young royals, received chilly reception in majority-Black Jamaica this year as the island contemplates leaving the Commonwealth. The Prince of Wales and his father King Charles III sat stony-faced as the Caribbean island of Barbados ended its membership in the body.
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The problem is that it can work against your own interests when wielding that kind of control. In one of the early episodes, Meghan discusses being biracial and says, “People don’t talk about what it’s like to be mixed race.” I went back to the beginning of the caption and was sure that I heard her correctly. There is a robust and longstanding discourse about being biracial or multiracial. How could she not know that? She was no longer protected from the wildly inaccurate statement.
Given that there aren’t many grand revelations in “Harry & Megan,” it seems clear that the Sussexes made this project, in large part, because they needed the money. The prince has a certain lifestyle. Security details are costly. The mortgage must be paid. The story is the most valuable asset for now for the Sussexes who were exiled from the royal family. You want people to know the truth as you have experience it, even if it’s for a brief time. Because you want to be seen and understood, you wrongly assume that if people know every last detail, finally they will empathize with your suffering. Alas.
As if to substantiate the Sussexes allegations, the British broadcaster Jeremy Clarkson unleashed an incoherent, rage-filled rant about Meghan in a column for The Sun. He thought that he hated her so much that she would have to go naked through every town in Britain and the crowds would throw garbage at her. It’s worth noting that Clarkson joined the Queen Consort and others for a Christmas lunch days before he penned his vile thoughts. And thus far, the royal family has said nothing about Clarkson’s words. They refuse to protect her.
The first interview the royal is doing to promote his upcoming book is a 90-minute one-on-one with ITV. His “60 Minutes” interview with Anderson Cooper will air on CBS later Sunday.
“I wanna get my father back,” he told The Guardian in a letter to the duchess of Sussex (Mumford)
“And every singly time I tried to do it privately there have been briefings and leakings and planting of stories against me and my wife,” he said. The motto of the family is never complain, never explain. It’s just a motto.”
“I would like to get my father back. He told Tom bradby in the clip that he would like to have his brother back.
Prince Harry has accused his brother, William, of physically assaulting him during an argument over his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex in 2019, according to The Guardian.
The UK newspaper claims to have seen an advance copy of Prince Harry’s highly anticipated memoir, Spare, in which Harry, the Duke of Sussex, reportedly alleges William, the Prince of Wales, knocked him to the floor during the altercation.
The two brothers had a conversation, during which William called his brother “rude”, “abrasive” and “difficult”, according to The Guardian.
It is now known the duke has made a slew of damaging accusations against the British royal family in “Spare” after several outlets obtained early copies of the book before the weekend. CNN has asked for an advance copy of the book from the publisher.
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The article quotes Harry: “He set down the water, called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. It was very fast. He ripped my necklace, and then knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.”
Elsewhere in the Guardian report, Harry recalls returning to the UK for the first time since stepping back as a senior royal in April 2021 for the funeral of the Queen’s husband, Prince Philip.
Since William spoke to Oprah for his interview, he hadn’t been with his family since the somber occasion.
Harry’s retelling suggests tensions with William remained high and quotes Charles pleading to his sons not to “make my final years a misery,” according to the Guardian article.
In the latest preview clip of the ITV sit-down released Thursday, Harry says he “still believe[s] in the monarchy” but when asked if he anticipates playing a part in its future, he replies, “I don’t know.”
“There’s a lot that can happen between now and then,” Harry says in the short clip. There is a door that is always open. The ball is in their court. I hope they’re willing to sit down and discuss it.
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It was not known who she believed stopped her from going somewhere for help, but she did say she wanted to go somewhere for help. In her interview with Winfrey in 2021. she made similar comments.
We are seeing a little brother desperate to fight back against feeling inferior and doing so in the dirtiest way possible. And, well, it seems pathetic.
William will be king, and Harry will not. William is unsure if that is something he wants or if he will fulfill it out of sheer patriotic and familial duty. That’s because William is taking the high road of silence. Isn’t it ironic that we know so much more about Harry and Meghan, the couple who resigned from royal life because they wished to remain private, than the couple who opted to stay?
While we can, and should, have some disdain for how Harry has chosen to approach his life circumstances, it’s also possible to have some compassion for him — and understanding. He did not completely create himself. And, sheltered and uber-privileged as he was for much of his upbringing, he is likely a fairly immature 38 year old.
He thinks he knows how to make his own money and live on his own, and that is the reason he is pushing back against the machine. He felt exploited as a child and younger adult and now he earns an enormous amount of money for his family.
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A challenging start to the year was already in the cards with the release of the memoir by the Duke of Sussex on January 10. A number of media outlets are reporting that they have obtained copies of Harry’s new book “Spare.”
Everyone has their favorite wizard and there should have been similar precautions taken. Not since the release of “Harry Potter” has there been a book publication so hotly anticipated. At the height of Potter-mania, huge lengths were taken to ensure a spoiler-free experience for J.K. Rowling’s young readers. There were also measures like publishing staff being sworn to secrecy, print staff being allowed to only view parts of the book, and retailers signing agreements.
In the UK, several bookstores revealed they are under a strict embargo to avoid jumping the gun ahead of release day, according to Britain’s PA Media news agency. One shop confirmed signing a document to make sure the memoir wasn’t put on sale ahead of schedule and they told PA they expected book deliveries late Monday to avoid copy leaks.
The promise of new revelations will likely make Prince Harry’s tome one of the top sellers of the year, even though it won’t spark the same frenzy of eager readers outside shops.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/06/entertainment/royal-news-newsletter-01-06-22-scli-gbr-cmd-intl/index.html
Does the Palace Need to Respond? Telling Prince Harry’s Story of a Trouble with the Royal Family, as revealed in an Interview with ITV
Many will be able to sympathize with the sibling rivalry the prince describes and other elements of his experience, but the harsh reality is that the monarchy is by its very nature hierarchical. He was given an elevated royal role so that he wouldn’t feeling like a spare part. Leaving the claims unanswered by the palace means his narrative will become part of our collective memory of the royal family.
Harry has indicated he would be open to a rapprochement, but it’s hard to see how that’s possible right now in the midst of this massive royal exposé. What’s clear from the leaks is the extent of the duke’s anger at being a supplementary heir and being put behind his brother.
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According to the Telegraph, Prince Harry stated that while serving in Afghanistan, he killed 25 people in order to be considered a hero. The Telegraph also said it obtained a copy of the Spanish version of the book ahead of its official release.
In the interview and in excerpts from his memoir shared by ITV, the Duke of Sussex addressed how strife in his family has been fueled by the relationship between Buckingham Palace and media outlets.
The palace planting a royal source to the press is only one of the ways that the leaks are covered by being unnamed.
He spoke about how his mother was hunted by paparazzi, recalling the traumatic night his father told him Princess Diana had died from injuries sustained in a car crash.
I don’t want history to repeat itself. I do not want to be a single dad. And I certainly don’t want my children to have a life without a mother or a father,” Prince Harry said in the interview.
The Duke of Sussex wanted to tell his own story, after having his story told by so many different people over the course of eight years. I’m actually really grateful that I’ve had the opportunity to tell my story because it’s my story to tell.”
“It never needed to get to this point. I have had conversations, I have written letters, I have written emails, and everything is just, ‘No, you, this is not what’s happening. He said you are imagining it. “That’s really hard to take. And if it had stopped, by the point that I fled my home country with my wife and my son fearing for our lives, then maybe this would have turned out differently. It’s hard.”
“You can’t just continue to say to me that I’m delusional and paranoid when all the evidence is stacked up, because I was genuinely terrified about what is going to happen to me,” he said.
The passing of Prince Harry: Forgiving his family for what they have done, and appearing on ABC News Live, ABC News, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
We have a transition period of a year and a half. My wife has experience with it. The institution and the tabloid media both doubled down, he added.
“There’s probably a lot of people who, after watching the documentary and reading the book, will go, how could you ever forgive your family for what they have done? People have already said that to me. And I said forgiveness is 100% a possibility because I would like to get my father back. I would like to have my brother back. At the moment, I don’t recognize them, as much as they probably don’t recognize me,” Prince Harry said.
The following day his sit-down with “Good Morning America” co-anchor Michael Strahan will air on the ABC show, followed in the evening by a half-hour special on ABC News Live. And to top things off, the duke will make an appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” hours after his book is released on Tuesday.
I have to wonder if there will be anything left to read after the public gets a chance to read it. For the past few days, leaks from the upcoming to book have sparked headlines around the world.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/08/entertainment/prince-harry-tom-bradby-anderson-cooper-interviews-intl/index.html
Prince Harry and Meghan Announce their First Year at the University of Bath – The Journey Across the Desert ‘Grand Unification’
Prince Harry said his brother never tried to dissuade him from marrying Meghan, but expressed some concerns and told him, “‘This is going be really hard for you,’” Prince Harry recalled during his interview.
In 2020 they announced that they would be leaving their jobs as senior royals and work towards becoming financially independent. The couple agreed with Queen Elizabeth II that they would not return to work as members of the royal family.