The whole thing strikes me as mud-slinging in the hope something sticks. Even if proven untrue it will be brought up again everytime someone in the RF is perceived to step out of line.
The translator would surely not add anything on her own accord, it wouldn't surprise me if they worked to very tight deadlines with no time for adding unauthorised comments.
I feel sure if a translator did that, that job would have been their last one. I believe the translator when she says it was in the manuscript she was given.
When H&M left I though, okay, good for them, looking after themselves. Then the media courting started, the Oprah interview, the Netflix show, etc. All the while pushing the "poor me" narrative. Not everyone is constantly out to get them.
The half truths and outright lies told by the two of them are also just ridiculous. I mean a high speed car chase in Manhattan? Most pedestrians would have been quicker than cars. M claiming she didn't know who H was before they met was just the icing of the cake.
OS swearing on his family'´s life is just a bit much and a sign to me that he is being ecomic with the truth.
H&M should get proper advisors, stand by their mistakes if they make them and fess up how much they contributed to this book.
The relationship between W&C and H&M might be irretrievably broken, which I find sad. If there is one person who knows and understands exactly what H went through when Diana died it would be W.
At a sports event about six/seven years ago, W&C and H were handing out medals for a short period of time. I was there volunteering and observed them as they walked away, there seemed to be such a good relationship, now all gone due to, what seems like, a massive chip on someones shoulder.
Don't get me wrong, if someone was racist they have to be called out, but show the receipts.
No one knows what was said and in which context.