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I've not heard this before!!
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I understand that Harry may have felt the third wheel when he was with William and Kate but how has he allowed their lovely friendship to be totally destroyed?![]()
Prince Harry 'felt like a third wheel' with William and Kate
Speaking to ET Canada, about bombshell new biography Finding Freedom, royal expert Katie Nicholl said Harry feeling like a third wheel is a 'recurring theme' of the book.www.dailymail.co.uk
Same here just watching, what struck me was the Gatcombe horse trials take place on Princess Anne's front lawn, her and her children and grandchildren mixing with the general public and not a large black privacy screen in sight.....Just watching the Princess Anne documentary on +1. It should be compulsory viewing for Meghan and all of her sugars. As Anne has said (more or less) “been there, done that, got the t-shirt.” Meghan’s Stans think she’s so special, but Anne was a true trailblazer.
Have you seen her sorority pictures? Lol. I don't think there's a black girl in the crowd. Maybe some hispanic girls but that's it.she claims everyone treats her bad bc she's black, yet she surrounds herself with white girls...
oh wait, i can't say "girl" or Haz will get offended![]()
Very interesting article, especially the part about the staff departures. We've mentioned this bit about the nanny before, but it seems to have been confirmed now:The courtiers turn for their side of the story!
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After Harry and Meghan biography, royal insiders give their side
Finding Freedom contains score-settling and vicious swipes at the Royal Family, courtiers and the media. Here, the Mail outlines some of the most astonishing allegations.www.dailymail.co.uk
I had a short-lived unhealthy habit of reading Mumsnet when I was feeling particularly miserable about being single - because the variety of stories about nasty feckless or controlling "OH"s, bratty "DC"s and vile interfering "MIL"s made me feel grateful to be free.I was CurlyWurlyTwirly on that thread. (I was there from the first one)
However, I left and deleted my account as I used to call out Meghan from years back and used to get slated for it; came to a head when they left in January and people were still defending her.
Mumsnet is way too woke. I much prefer tattle!
This is a false argument by "Prof" Williams - it wasn't genuine happiness which Harry found and this is what William (and the rest of us) could clearly see. I don't think anyone would begrudge him the love of a good woman who brought out the best in him.
Total disaster for Haz's reputation - he looks dim, entitled and petulant. I'm sticking with my gut instinct that Omid and Meg jointly threw Haz under the bus to set up the divorce narrative.not sales wise. But for them it has.
Truth serums are highly unreliable. Chemicals only really work on those who are easily manipulated and a bit dim......Oh waitAlso I reckon “mom” Doris is probably giving him a truth serum before the yoga sessions, and getting him to spill more and more secrets to hold over him.
Nobody who is on her payroll in any form will ever say no, or even "Maybe that's not the thing to do your High Highness" because they're enjoying sending another invoice for their services and it's all very easy money ... ker-ching! Nor do they have friends who give a shit enough to point out potential own goals or mishaps. Nobody cares about them. Just Haz's family(about him) and they are keeping their noses out and letting the farce play outso they can't be accused of shit stirring.How did Scobie and his mistress ever come to think that exposing what is so obviously emnity, spite, treachery and cowardice was going to rehabilitate them? I know were talking a massive delusional bubble here but in truth, apart from the poor sad creatures who think shes Diana come again only better, EVERYONE else can see it. Surely someone at some stage would have said "are we sure this is good idea?" Its another fascinating aspect of the story - I mean have you heard one defence of the book or its subject matter anywhere but Sugarland?
Extremely PROUD!!!!Loving you’re avatar MO5. Showing your heritage there.![]()
Total disaster for Haz's reputation - he looks dim, entitled and petulant. I'm sticking with my gut instinct that Omid and Meg jointly threw Haz under the bus to set up the divorce narrative.
The publishers will be happy though. So many brand name checks just in the extracts - have they cut a deal for paid product placement?
Finding Freebies has a long book review in the Times today by very respected Valentine Low. It was pretty damning.
Another forum(thank you) has spotted that it's been taken down (still in the print edition though). It's always interesting to have a second read of the stuff that disappears to have a think about what they didn't like.
It's long so I've spoiler tagged.
The Times Review
Finding Freedom by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand review — the truth behind Megxit? This new book gives the Sussexes’ side of the royal feud, writes Valentine Low
Friday July 31 2020, 5.00pm, The Times
Harry and Meghan met on a blind date in 2016
In the years to come, when historians come to unravel the chain of events that led to the downfall of the House of Windsor, perhaps they will pay particular attention to this book. Finding Freedom purports to be the first proper attempt to tell the truth about Megxit: how the Duke and Duchess of Sussex went from the golden couple who were going to modernise the monarchy for a new, emotionally literate, socially aware generation to the pair who found their lives so filled with misery and rancour that they ran away to California.
It is quite a journey. It takes us from Meghan landing in London in June 2016 when, apparently, she was a woman on a mission: no, not to bag herself a prince — that was to come later — but to go shoe shopping. Off she goes to Selfridges where, we are told, she enjoyed looking at her favourite designers, including Stella McCartney, Chloé and Marc Jacobs.
In between shopping trips, she is busy networking. Within a few days she is being set up with a blind date with Prince Harry. “Do you know what you’re letting yourself in for?” her London agent, Gina Nelthorpe-Cowne, asks over lunch.
“Well, it’s going to be an experience,” Meghan says. “And at least it will be a fun night.”
Meghan was right in one respect: the evening did go well. They chatted for nearly three hours, over beer for him, martini for her; he spoke about his charity work, she talked about her rescue dogs. There was no goodbye kiss, but the romance was on; by the time she was back in her hotel room, Harry was already texting her.
Meghan did not know what she was letting herself in for. There were warning signs early on, when Harry was so furious with what he saw as the racism and sexism in the tabloid coverage of his romance that he issued an angry statement condemning the “abuse and harassment” of Meghan. Prince Charles, meanwhile, was on tour in the Middle East, and only had 20 minutes’ notice of Harry’s incendiary statement. He was not best pleased. It was another harbinger of how Harry and Meghan would come to fall out with the other royal households.
By the time Meghan was pregnant with Archie, it was not short of all-out war. According to the authors, Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, senior courtiers in other households — the “men in grey suits” — were intent on reining in Harry and Meghan’s global popularity.
Who are these men in grey suits? It is never clear. They are not named. But they are a bad lot, it seems. The “establishment” even feared that Harry and Meghan’s popularity “might eclipse that of the royal family itself”. Really?
At this point the reader might reasonably ask, what exactly were these rotters doing? And how do we know? Scobie and Durand do not claim to have had interviews with Harry and Meghan, but they have spoken to them on occasions. They have also been introduced, with the help of the couple’s staff, to Harry and Meghan’s closest friends.
The result is that we get the pure, undiluted voice of H and M (as their staff call them). That makes this book an important contribution to the understanding of the biggest crisis in the royal family for more than 20 years. However, it is not necessarily an edifying experience, or indeed a reliable narrative. The main complaints, as far as one can tell, is that the Sussexes sometimes had to take a back seat in the royal pecking order when their proposals clashed with initiatives from Prince Charles or Prince William.
Did no one explain to Meghan that Charles is the heir to the throne, and William the next in line? And that the concept of monarchy is built upon the notion of hierarchy? If not, it was a woeful omission.
There are occasional attempts at balance, as when it is conceded that the way Harry and Meghan announced their plans to step down caused ill will in the rest of the family. Yet when Meghan is quoted as saying things such as “I gave up my entire life for this family. I was willing to do whatever it takes” one has to wonder about her capacity for self-awareness.
This is not to say that they weren’t genuinely unhappy, or that they did not feel unprotected by the Palace. They did. But this book has only one story to tell: how Harry and Meghan are the innocent victims of a wicked Palace and an even more wicked media, and it’s all everyone else’s fault. It cries out for a decent account of how things really fell apart.
The prose has its Mills & Boon moments. We learn that when Meghan moved in with Harry she immediately felt at home because “she’s always been able to bloom where she was planted”. When Harry took Meghan to Zambia, she “stretched her body into the perfect warrior pose”, which as well as being stunningly irrelevant raises the question: how did the authors know which yoga pose Meghan chose to adopt? Other than by her telling them?
Worst of all, on the evening she first visited Harry at Kensington Palace, we read that he was “every bit the gentleman” who would always gesture for her to go first. “The short walk from the living room would have been no different.” Please: too much information.
On and on it goes, detail after exhausting detail: the food they ate, the designers she wore, the finer points of Meghan’s packing technique. There are some exclusive nuggets, such as the fact that they got engaged several weeks earlier than anyone has realised. The name of their labrador, kept a secret for so long, is Pula.
However, for a book that sets out to put the record straight, there are curious omissions. There is nothing on the controversy over why they refused to divulge the names of Archie’s godparents, or what happened when she had an apparent meltdown on an official engagement in a market in Fiji. Their decision to set up their Megxit website on the sly without telling any of the royal family is skimmed over.
Some of it is just plain wrong. When they flew to Canada to get away from everyone in November last year, it wasn’t on Air Canada, as the authors claim, but a private jet (whoops). The authors use a couple of jobs undertaken by the couple to berate the press, complaining that coverage of their first trip to Wales omitted to point out that the reason they were an hour late was because their train was delayed. Not true: every newspaper said that their train was late. Instead of the couple being “pummeled with criticism”, the coverage was overwhelmingly positive. The Daily Mail, bête noire for Harry and Meghan, said she passed her initiation “with flying colours”.
A few days later, she wore a trouser suit to an awards ceremony. The book says she was “lambasted” for her fashion choice — in fact, she was widely praised. Laziness by the authors, who could have checked? Or cynicism?
Harry and Meghan had so much to offer. He was a popular and charming member of the royal family, with a drive and a sincerity that reached parts other royals could never reach. Meghan had glamour, intelligence, initiative and a fresh approach that could have transformed the monarchy. They could have done so much, which is why their departure was such a loss. They deserve a better account than this.
I remember that, she said they were feral just because they weren't wearing shoes.I don't think it's true either. But she is alleged to have been over heard saying that the cambridge kids are feral. Supposedly when the images of them appeared running barefoot and splashing in the little shallow stream in the garden Kate created.
She is going to be a helicopter mum and god help her kid, his life won't be his own and he'll be so sanitised that any future virus out there could have serious consequences. She's a fool.
It's Australia, where England would send convicts rather than to jail in England.
It's the first time we've read that Prince William blocked MM's access to the TQ's jewels after the wedding. That wouldn't have been done lightly. They must have thought there was a serious risk of some sort.Is this it? Apologies if not, I haven’t read it yet.
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Harry & Meghan book is a huge misstep...you actually think worse of them for it
VICTIMHOOD now seeps through celebrity culture. Hard-working folk are regularly expected to feel sympathy for multi-millionaires moaning from Hollywood mansions about all manner of minor inj…www.thesun.co.uk