Prince Harry’s Memoirs to be published.

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Blurb from publisher.

In an intimate and heartfelt memoir from one of the most fascinating and influential global figures of our time, Prince Harry will share, for the very first time, the definitive account of the experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons that have helped shape him.

Covering his lifetime in the public eye from childhood to the present day, including his dedication to service, the military duty that twice took him to the frontlines of Afghanistan, and the joy he has found in being a husband and father, Prince Harry will offer an honest and captivating personal portrait, on that shows readers that behind everything they think they know lies an inspiring, courageous and uplifting human story.'

@Maireas
It reminds me of cajoling / threatening my DC to behave and not show us up when we visited MIL.

Harryvaderci 😂😂

Or maybe “Haztalavista baby”🤣

I agree, @Zuluqueen and @KillingMeDeftly (my royal style friend!)
Meghan seems to have borne the brunt of the blame.

@AllTheUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken

And does “proceeds” include the $20 million advance he’s claimed to have received? What kind of profit does the publishing company make before “proceeds” are given to “charity”?

Do we know for sure that he's already received it? I can't imagine a $20 million donation would have gone unnoticed by the media or unannounced by H&M. The logical time to announce it would have been when he announced plans for the book. "I've already donated my advance to X Charity, and I intend to donate all additional proceeds to Y and Z Charities" would have gone over a lot better than "I'll donate [some unspecified percentage of the] proceeds to [some unspecified] charity." If he's already received it, I think it's safe to conclude they're keeping it.

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Some v witty replies to that!

I'm looking forward to this, although I expect it will be sanitised and not an all out attack.

Why shouldn't Harry make money out of his status? How many billions of pounds have newspapers, TV and Piers Morgan made out of talking about him over the years?

Meghan is intelligent with astute judgement. She is the one of the two of them who you would expect to be steering their decisions. It is possible that given more freedom beyond his royal duties, that Harry enjoys ploughing his own furrow. But even so, what he does affects Meghan because they are a couple. She must surely be annoyed if he makes poor decisions.

I think most people would say that you can complain once, but you can't keep going on and on about the same things like a broken record. This wisdom applies to work, families, celebrity, all areas of life. To be admirable, you have to show that you can grow. Harry has done the past, and now he needs to do the future. But he is doing the past again.

All stars with longevity, reinvent themselves and evolve. They show they are bigger than their detractors. Surely, as a successful blogger and actress, Meghan knows this. She is reinventing herself as Mother Earth, font of love, compassion and patience. ( Having done the adorable Duchess Cheeky, poking her tongue out at the children for the photographer and the feminist bride) so why isn't Harry being encouraged to emerge from his chrysalis?
I think he's going it alone and ignoring all advice.

I came across these book title suggestions on another forum

Little Man
How to Kill a Mocking Duke
The Lord of the Fibs
Fifty Shades of Dirt

If Harry can find a way to make money off of being an ex-royal while leaving other people and their personal lives out of it, more power to him. The Thomas Markle approach to paying one's mortgage was wrong when Thomas Markle did it, and it's no less so when Harry does it.

The thing is Harry is not doing anything other than sell his story, he’s cashing in on his position, and to be honest, meghans doing fuck all too. Her book was hardly the work of genius.

The two of them are simply selling their name, their stories, and trading on being royal there’s nothing else, that’s it.

The thing is, if you look at their trademark woes, they always intended to cash in on being royal. They always wanted to monetise it, but for some reason I expected better, I thought there would be other worthwhile stuff, charity, Africa, the Un, something, but it’s just constant selling stories and cashing in on being royal, and nothing else. Literally nothing, it’s about how much money can they make.

I think Meghan is ambitious but not so sure she can read a room very well, nor harry and he has had more practice at it. Either they are tone deaf or have American advisors who are tone deaf. I think if diana was here she would understand harry's desire to be a free spirit and leave the RF but would discourage the endless whingeing. Diana whinged too but interspersed this with fun, humour and what looked like genuine caring works and she'd been at it for longer so we knew her better. Rather than h and m's charity works which look more like good works by numbers.

I don’t see much evidence of Meghans astuteness.

I really do wish him well and hope he builds a lovely happy new life, but my thoughts on this were that either his current personal brand isn’t sustainable or things must be emotionally very tricky for him if he wants or needs to keep ‘setting the record straight’. Wasn’t that what Finding Freedom was for? Was it all a commercial wheeze to distance from that in order to write a self-penned memoir? It’s not a great look really.
He needs to build a niche based on something of his own like all his good charity work. There’s only so many times he can set the record straight and talk about his own take on the royal family, isn’t there?

Let me get my violin

He needs to build a niche based on something of his own like all his good charity work. There’s only so many times he can set the record straight and talk about his own take on the royal family, isn’t there?

A few other posters have said similar and it's surely a point that must have occurred to him. Once the book is published and his story has been told in his own words (although it is I believe the third time at the last count) then what is his next move.

He's almost 40 so surley he's not lacking the understanding that rehashing his terrible life thus far isn't going to pay the bills for potentially another 60 odd years?

I wouldn't say this is all Meghan's fault, but I do think compared to her Harry is an absolute dope. Meghan does at least sound reasonably intelligent. To a dope like Harry I imagine that's quite compelling, plus he's basically got to run just to keep i with her. I just wonder, in all of this, if she is actually as intelligent as she thinks?

What are the rest of us missing? When they say "we have a compelling story", "we can bring change" and we're all thinking but what it's just you slating your life Nd your family.

Will they be like the couple equivalent of poor Katie Price who has sold her body, her stories, her kids, her face and all that's left is to do it again and again but even less public interest, until what you had is gone and what you have isn't worth a hill of beans.

Bit of a cross post there @GreenCrayon, sorry

Mostly because he actually is a Prince

A fact he's all too determined to ram down our throats at the slightest opportunity including the blurb for this monstrous act of navel gazing and despite the new slant implying it's all a bit behind him now he's become A Man.

The issue I think they habe is companies are only going to pay big bucks for them to spill the beans. They habe nothing else to offer. Now they could go and do charitable work. But it doesn’t pay does it. So they aren’t using their name to do good, they are simply monetising their royal connection.

It’s unpalatable in the extreme.

Actually I rate Katie Price pretty highly she does a shit ton of charity work for disabled children and their families while raising her own son with serious disabilities and her other kids, plus any media or public interest in her personal or professional life she absolutely created for herself. I don’t think they are even in the same ball park as public figures. Sorry not trying to be mean to the royal kids who can’t help being born in that privileged world, but Katie Price is a proper grafter.

Nice to hear someone say something good about Katie Price; I rate her too, always have.

I don't make comparisons between her and others with a completely different background and life, there's no point in that.

@ktel1

I came across these book title suggestions on another forum

Little Man
How to Kill a Mocking Duke
The Lord of the Fibs
Fifty Shades of Dirt

My suggestion:

Tapping Out

Doria hasn't cashed in in any way at all. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a person without good things to say about her. She exemplifies the Queen Mother mantra of never complaining and never explaining. She's a model of how to become connected to the royal family and keep things going well. She has handled the role with great dignity, no doubt helped by the fact, that if her bearing is anything to go by, she is a person with innate dignity as well as grace.

@smilesy

Harryvaderci 😂😂

Or maybe “Haztalavista baby”🤣

'I'll be back' and back and back and back