Harry and Meghan biography

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Hasn't Prince Harry learnt anything from his mother's experience of having someone write her biography 'to set the record straight'? Couldn't they have at least waited until after his grandmother's death, however long that might be?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8257071/Meghan-Harry-biography-bombshell-Royals.html

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52503363

Duchess of Sussex: Mail on Sunday wins first round in Meghan privacy case

She hasn’t lost her court case! It hasn’t happened yet.

MoS original headline said the case had been thrown out. Was rapidly changed to numerous claims thrown out.

You’d think they could report their own court case proceedings correctly.

Mariposa - I would imagine from their own funds. Prince Harry was left millions by both the Queen Mother and Princess Diana.

Can't believe she tried to blame the Mail on Sunday for the estrangement between her and Thomas. She's looking more and more ridiculous.

I imagine within a few years, this marriage will fail and Harry will move back to the Royal fold. But the legacy it will have on his disdain for the press who he sees as having played a pivotal role in his mother's death will be immense.

I can see the media being blamed for:
driving them out of the UK,
hounding them in Canada and LA so that round the clock security was needed at H&M's expense,
creating financial pressures due to legal bills which strained their marriage

and ultimately causing the marriage to fail so he is no longer able to live full time with his son.

The narrative will be pushed along by Meghan who needs to come out of this blame free to pursue her global ambitions. By 40 Harry will be a very bitter, unhappy man IMO.

He’s already bitter and unhappy five years ahead of schedule.

Omid Scobie looks like he could be son of David Gest

He so does!

@7Worfs He’s already bitter and unhappy five years ahead of schedule.

Agreed but I think we ain't see nothing yet. This is just the beginning.

Why do lawyers, especially top lawyers, allow their clients to push for things that won't stand up in court?

@Mamamia456 true, but has it been established how much of that he can access? Otherwise why are they still getting the allowance from Charles? They aren’t financially independent yet!

MissEliza publicity probably? Don’t think it’s money alone

@misseliza ultimately the lawyers act on their clients' instructions. You can tell a client until you're blue in the face that something they want to do is unlikely to succeed but if they still tell you to go ahead then that's what you do.

Why do lawyers, especially top lawyers, allow their clients to push for things that won't stand up in court?

I guess they figure that eventually a firm of lawyers will take it on, be stymied by their client's refusal to deal with reality, lose but get paid a lot for it - and decide that someone has to do it, and it might as well be them.

I'm quite relieved to see that the Judge has thrown out the claim that the press had an organised malicious campaign to discredit her. That will be a huge blow to her. She may well lose the entire thing.

His inheritances from his mother and his great grandmother will undoubtedly be tied up in investments or trusts; they will be able to spend the income (not much at current interests rates) but will soon run into trouble if/when they start dipping into the capital, given their lifestyle choices.

Yes, but there is reputational risk here, that could arguably outweigh any fees esp if a loss results in a dissatisfied client not paying anyway.

What I read of the judgment would (should) make for painful reading for her lawyers. Admonishment much?

First blood to the MoS then, but I fear this will just feed into H&M's victim/the world's against us mindset. Several legal experts opined that their case against the MoS was overblown and should have concentrated on the privacy and copyright issue of the letter solely and I wonder if M's legal team advised her likewise regarding the addition of the claims that have now been struck out.

Already a bill of £110,000 racked up in legal costs, provided the MoS get their costs against M awarded which I imagine they will, with more to come when the case is eventually heard. Expensive and damaging and so easily avoided. H&M do seem to be on some sort of crusade against the press, the RF, and even the British public, it's quite astounding.

The Mail on Sunday's QC is a brilliant cross-examiner. Even if she wins the case on a technicality she's going to lose the war. She's going to have huge lumps taken out of her reputationally.'

Perfect summing up, @TimeLady. Also the bit in the article where it's going to boil down to whether she or her father is in fact a liar. Wake up and smell the dysfunction, Harry!

How many people could take the stand against their own parent in a case that will get massive publicity worldwide? Yes, TM made mistakes around the time of the wedding but apparently he and MM were so close before she met Harry. What a vicious thing to do to the person who brought you up, put you through school and gave you a leg-up into a difficult industry.

I'm pleased that these "best friends" will have to take the stand. I can't fathom how People magazine managed to wangle juicy gossip from FIVE close friends for the same article. Surely 'best friends' only become so by proving their loyalty over the years, not by feeding gossip to the press. I don't see how it can have happened without MM sanctioning it. We should find out who they are when they give evidence and that will speak volumes, if they are truly within the inner circle, etc. I'd love to know what Harry has been told about them speaking out without her permission. If it turns out she did authorise it and told him she hadn't, I'd imagine that would be hard to come back from.

MM's barrister is quoted as saying 'This is the way my client wants to run her case', which I think was a big hint that she wasn't taking his advice. I didn't think too highly of her before, but crikey, her ego must be some size if she thinks she knows better than to take legal advice from her barrister.

@OVienna it's the issue of the lawyers' reputation that I was thinking of.

Right, me too. A real risk.

Meghan may not have lost the court case just yet, but she will because she does not have a legal leg to stand on (and that is probably the only thing the DM and I will ever agree on) but she is has already lost everything she just doesn't know it. Her dignity and creditability were the first to go,, the much cherished privacy she says she wants more than anything, the private texts and other information have/and will have to be presented in court, next we will no doubt hear all about the simmering family tensions, to put the case into context, and this will all take place on the world stage - but this time without a sympathetic (perhaps even a hostile) audience.

This case has as much to do with family revenge, and the grave injustice of her father's untimely heart attack, as it does with the media.

Harry has just become a sideshow to the Meghan show, he is nothing more than a limp supporting role now, reduced now to an unemployed middle aged man with no plan whatsoever for the future, her plan is now complete. Harry is just where she wants him, decapitated his confidence and he is now relying solely on her. It does not get much more toxic than this. Meghan has managed to shrug off the shackles of RF duties and responsibilities that she married into willingly, and besides trading away a few handy titles, and a few country houses she may now feel she has the world at her feet.

She is about to meet reality, because they have overnight become a contaminated brand. Something any decent company with a grain of sense would hesitate to affiliate themselves with.
We will see many big names back away as the court case turns into a bloodbath, and I can not think for one minute why she hasn't been advised to walk away whilst she still can, or why Harry is letting her do this (oh wait, she has replaced honest experienced royal aides with a bunch of American PR hacks, and Harry was muzzled years ago)

Come the winter Sussex brand will be dead in the water for a second time in less than a year, and they will become even more desperate for a few dollars. The LA sharks will be waiting, teeth glinting in the dark..

But remember, she knows how to fight a case because has a background in the legal profession. In Suits.

I'd love to know who these 'best friends' are - and how many 'best friends' she has left, now that she's not a member of the RF.