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

Interesting SheStops.

Or maybe just very familiar with Google 'right to be forgotten' requests...

I find it odd that the DT article says the friends were willing to go on record but that it was felt the article would have "more impact" if they remained anonymous.

I would have thought that someone actually putting their name to a story and being willing to stand by it publicly would have given it far more credibility and "impact".

Also wonder exactly who "felt" it gave more impact and whether, if the names were better known (such as George & Amal Clooney, Serena Williams etc) whoever it was would have "felt" it better to have them attached to the story, instead of the 5 (five, count 'em) names mentioned in the DT.
None of whom are immediately recognisable. At least, not to me.

Exactly LaMar . The logic doesn't work.

The two usually go hand in hand @OVienna... 🤔

I also think OS is somebody for whom pronouns are important.

I'm wondering if there has been confusion over these friends and who "leaked" what. Wasn't there an article published, supposedly from unnamed friends about what a fabulous friend and hostess Meghan was, detailing such things as candles and cozy fleeces being provided at (?) their "cottage" at Kensington Palace when they went to stay (as if the staff wouldn't have done all that anyway).
That article about the Thomas Markle letter seems to me as if it has come from just one person, so perhaps the other four friends colluded to "set the record straight" from Meghan's point of view on other, less controversial matters.

Maybe the magazine was hoping its readers would assume that the sources were the big names like Serena or Priyanka hiding behind anonymity, rather than these five nobodies?

Emma is lovely and oozes warmth. I hope the prejudice she suffered has been crushed from within. If Meghan suffered the same prejudice, it will not have come from HMQ and I would have thought high society to take their cues from her. At least this is how high society seemed to work in the bygone days in any case. But if not, the majority of the British public is not to blame for her acceptance or otherwise. I was really hurt at the time like many after the accusations and big announcement.

Thank you for the telegraph article. TimeLady.

Emma Thynn, Marchioness of Bath, was brought up in wealthy circles as her mum was a socialite. She knew her future in laws from childhood as her half brother married Lord Bath's aunt. So I would say the difficulties she faced were more due to racism. All below:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Thynn,_Marchioness_of_Bath

@niveaessential I noticed as well that the online people article does not mention the letter. I assumed it was because they normally post shorter versions of the story on the Web and keep the longer versions with the juicy stuff for the print version to encourage people to still buy hard copy. I could be wrong though.

Here's the full Telegraph article; I managed to access it via press reader.

www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/0/meghans-closest-friends-have-dished-dirt-broke-rank/

It's behind a paywall for me.

I also think OS is somebody for whom pronouns are important

Tactfully put

Is it possible to copy and paste? Paywall for me too

I've attached a couple of screen snips; they might be hard to read on a phone

From the same writer of the original article, again published in People:

“After the wedding she wrote him a letter. She’s like, ‘Dad, I’m so heartbroken. I love you. I have one father. Please stop victimizing me through the media so we can repair our relationship.’ Because every time her team has to come to her and fact-check something [he has said], it’s an arrow to the heart. He writes her a really long letter in return, and he closes it by requesting a photo op with her. And she feels like, ‘That’s the opposite of what I’m saying. I’m telling you I don’t want to communicate through the media, and you’re asking me to communicate through the media. Did you hear anything I said?’

people.com/royals/meghan-markle-dad-thomas-markle-letter-after-wedding/

Those quotation marks might be significant, if they show the wording (as detailed by the friend) is identical to what is in the actual letter.

The original magazine appears to be available on this site

www.magzter.com/US/Time-Inc/People/Fashion/329846

but is blocked to UK readers.

shes like

Who wrote that rubbish?

And she feels like, ‘I’m telling you I don’t want to communicate through the media, and you’re asking me to communicate through the media

Is she trolling everyone?

Strikes me that it was all left far too close to the wedding date to be properly sorted. They announced their engagement in November. As soon as they'd done that they should have organised for Harry to meet Thomas Markle. All the talk in that article of 'he knows her phone number' seems very distant.

Slebs posing as their own PR person is definitely a thing: reportedly Donald Trump used to do it!

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-alter-ego-barron/2016/05/12/02ac99ec-16fe-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html

Finding Freedom? That is just bloody ridiculous.

All those stories of William being entitled and obnoxious to women, I had forgotten about those, hopefully he has sorted himself out in his thinking. I hadn’t forgotten how Kate and her family were sneered at in the press for being ‘middle class’ and she was chased in the street by paps. I remember feeling sorry for her at the time and people saying that royal girlfriends needed to be giving police protection.

I have to hand it to them thinking about the current W&K coverage, the Palace PR people are very good. I don’t doubt W&K lead absolutely blameless lives, but I just mean that their positive PR is excellently done.

The blurb on the Finding Freedom book reads like a parody.