To think Prince Harry should now do whatever it takes to cancel his book contract?

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And withdraw his book?

A rapprochement looks possible if he meets the RF halfway.

People aren’t afraid of the book. They’re concerned about the potential damage it will do all parties, including Harry and Meghan. And some of us are also concerned about the damage it may do to our country.

I really hope it is true that Oprah has backed off from a second interview.

This.

As long as Harry is in the thrall of a manipulative narcissist this won't end well, book or no book. 😞

It’s bad enough that British taxpayers had to fork out for Prince of Nonces Andrew’s payoff, now we have to pay for Prince Harry’s publisher pay off too? FFS. They really are leeches aren’t they?

Why would he ‘need’ that?

it seems the very opposite of what he is saying he needs, which is to protect his own family.

Not sure what the problem is, he wants to publish a book about a life he has left behind. It’s not an unusual thing to do. Some people will read it, most won’t. I hadn’t watched that video but he is clearly damaged by his past and dealing with it as best he can. Good for him.

Does no one care about facts? Proceeds from book is going to charities.

Should the countries that suffer brutality while the monarchy smiled in complicity forgive and forget because King Charles visits and make meaningless gestures?

You cannot expect victims of abuse to pander to the whims and faux smiles of the abuser.

There is no genuine reconciliation there. Even this stupid debate about the titles for the King’s mixed race grandchild says it all. I don’t know what the rules are but the optics are terrible on the world stage. It looks like all the fuss is connected to them being mixed race.

The Queen’s death and funeral arrangements have woken the world to Britain’s cruelty towards a woman of colour and the punishment given to Harry for marrying outside of his race.

I eagerly await his book.

Posters upthread have mentioned public obsession with them and I do wonder why that is. I dislike the pair but have occasionally commented whereas in real life I'd avoid them like the plague and stay as distant as possible. But it's the same fascination as watching a very upmarket soap opera - you can see the train wreck in slow motion but the are so remote/unreal that you don't feel like you should mind your own business. They continually put themselves out there, so we become entitled to comment.
If he wants out they should ditch the titles and live their lives however they choose but without mentioning the royal family. Stay private and quiet - no-one has the right to comment. Everyone would respect them for that. It's the hypocrisy of it though. Their actions indicate don't want "out", they want to set up an alternate Hollywood-style court and make money off it by dissing their own family. They are terrible, spoilt, entitled people so it's naturally become a public sport to dislike them. It's awful for the monarchy.

When they say "proceeds are going to charity", that doesn't mean all the proceeds. It means some, undisclosed, potentially tiny amount and potentially when only when all other costs are covered. He wouldn't do this for charity.

I find this perceived “right” to tell “my story” whilst trashing the very little privacy the relevant others have utterly reprehensible. The fact that he and his wife have proved their tenuous grasp of truth doesn’t help.

Meghan 'doesn't even look black'?

@Watapalava, you don't know how racism works then. It clearly didn't stop Archie being completed to an ape and you know that very well.

The fact she 'doesn't even look black' is exactly why some people feel emboldened to be racist. And then pretend 'she doesn't even look black so how could I be racist'.

It is all about the money for them. I think it should be published because it seems like they are using it to hold the RF to ransom. They have both behaved appalling in times where it wasn't appropriate (e.g around Prince Phillip's death). It should be released, then their titles should be removed and they should live the life away from the royal family which they so desperately craved. Meghan thought she would come in and be the star, she thought they would surpass William and Catherine and that the palace would run around her. The monarchy doesn't work like that so she upped and left. Whilst some people are racist, that is not the reason why the majority of people don't like her. They don't like her because of her behaviour (and they are probably the same people who didn't like Catherine in the early days after her marriage when she and William were dubbed the reluctant royals). When you are in the Royal Family, you are expected to perform the 'duties' which come with the immense privilege. She had no intention of doing so.

Depends what’s in the book but it may look hypocritical now after the apparent reproachment

No the problem has always been that Meghan has never accepted the royal family and what being part of it entails, despite deciding to marry into it.

Im with youI all this. I can't believe how hypocritical some people are.

I'm no fan of Meghan for the reasons @PipinwasAuntieMabelsdogand @Havehope21outline. I have however seen an article about these two photos stating Peter Phillips and David Linley are looking at her with disgust. I would simply think they look unhappy because of the occasion?

They certainly have form for paying off victims of their family so yes, this is a definite possibility.

The press are stirring things up. But I think Harry and Meghan being uninvited from the state reception after the funeral is a palace own goal. Can’t help comparing their treatment to that of Andrew….

The manner in which she has treated her own father, has had nothing to do with the Royal Family. Her actions in regard to her own family are far more telling of the person than anything else is alleged against her.

She and only she is responsible for her relationship with her family

We don’t really know what Peter Phillips and David Linley were thinking anymore than we know what Meghan was thinking in this photo, where she appears to be looking at the Queen, with a rather interesting expression. These are all likely fleeting glances and I see no disgust on the men’s faces. I see solemnity.

Meghan’s every move and look has been scrutinised and a lot can be misconstrued. The same applies in reverse.

Gossip and mud-slinging sells papers after all and this story is just like the ridiculous hand-holding story.

Why should they?

It’s all a bit Jeremy Kyle in the upper classes. Cashing in on victim status.

Current events feed into Megan’s hands, how much money to be made out of being at the heart of such an Historic British event. Meghan performing her duty as an English Duchess.

Then the inevitable leak of how she couldn’t return to her children and how this made her feel yada yada.

I’ve never been convinced that Harry had any choice to leave the RF after MM fled to Canada, she wasn’t coming back and he chose her.

Initially I believed she was offering him the alternative way of life that he needed, thinking they could be half in half out. Once the Queen ruled out that option the speed and content of the interviews and books suggest he is merely a cash cow.

Its all so crass.

If anything I think he’ll add another chapter about his experience of losing his grandmother

Not that from the get go she was Straight Outta Compton with DNA far too exotic for the Royal Family, leading 70 female MPs to write an open letter denouncing the racism towards her? What of the picture with Meghan and Harry leaving hospital with Archie depicted as a monkey?

Sure, let us gaslight and forget history. The world has been looking on.

I guess the problem with Meghan was that she is too “uppity” giving writers for the Dailymail a “niggling” feeling that she was out of order not to stay and accept the abuse in silence.

The British Media has destroyed the Royal Family. Many movies will be made from this and none will portray the UK and the Royal Family well. History will paint a terrible picture of UK on this.

See how the history of Britain’s past ills are ramping up in volume? The world no longer has patience for this nonsense.

He's got as much right to publish his autobiography as the rest of us have.

He's no longer a working royal, so doesn't have to answer to any of them.

If anything isn't true, then the RF can refute the allegations.

It might have been a better idea not to invite and then disinvite them to a state reception though. That will just throw more fuel on their fire.🙄

Literally the only people who bring up her ethnicity are people who want to make claims of racism. Its crazy. Start from the first page of each thread, look for the moment racism is first brought into the mix, this is always how it goes.

And yeah let's not forget her complete alienation from her own family, and her lack of friends too. You have a wedding and the closest person you can think to invite is....Oprah?

What an unfortunate coincidence for Meghan. That relationships with friends and family be so strained and distant on her own side and for that to happen AGAIN with her inlaws. Its almost like theres a common factor or something...