If any of the reports that
- MM wants the book to be released sooner rather than later because she wants misconceptions cleared up
- or that she contributed more heavily than the paying public think
- or that the book wouldn’t be released without her approval (it’s Omid Scobie fgs)
are true, then she’s already scored an own goal. Even if the book is filled with “that £50k engagement dress was borrowed”, “you don’t know just how tiny and poky Nottingham Cottage is”, “all I’ve ever wanted is to help people but there are so many rules to comply with I just couldn’t move a finger without permission” - there will be a tight lipped reply to all of that (ie everyone else seems to have managed).
She won’t be able to say anything, about anyone or anything, without criticising the RF in the process, as a whole or individual members. If she doesn’t say a single word about the family or the institution or any individual members, then how can it be a book about freedom? Freedom from what?
At best it’ll be a diatribe about the invasion of privacy by the press. Even that will backfire: I couldn’t even have a swanky baby shower without everyone knowing about it (so you wanted to live that life in secret?), I just wanted to watch my friend play tennis and had people hounding me (every other royal visitor to Wimbledon managed it without clearing out rows of seats around them?), our homes have helicopters circling above them with long lens cameras (every sympathy with this, those shots of TP’s house are horrific and would make anyone feel paranoid - but you can’t fill a whole book with this).
In reality, there is going to be a lot of spin and selective explanations of what went on. Staff who she hired out of the goodness of her heart, but who she painfully had to let go because the RF machine didn’t accept them. I’m a warm American who was so eager to join this family who welcomed me so readily, but in reality I realised they couldn’t be there for me so we decided why bother when we could do so much gooooooood elsewhere. A wedding day (doesn’t every woman dream of becoming a princess, getting married to their prince in a castle blah blah) ruined by press intrusion around her father.
The only way she can come out of this well is if it transpires that she’s been a closet Nelson Mandela all her life and the RF was trying to shut her down so she had to selflessly escape to help other people. What else could justify someone trying out a job and marriage and home for a couple of years before fleeing and leaving a trail of burning embers behind her, and then HAVING to write a book to set the record straight because they’ve been so grossly misunderstood?