Something is happening with all of these royal commentators and royal biographers: they’re lazy as hell and they’re terrified of simply writing a dedicated book dealing with the Sussexit and the fallout from Prince Harry and Meghan’s move to America. That’s why we have Robert Lacey and Andrew Morton “re-releasing” their 2019 and 2020 books with “new chapters.” I guess we can include Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand in there too, because they did the same thing with Finding Freedom’s paperback release. Why not just write a completely new book? I guess they’re scared that a new book would have “gossip” which would be completely obsolete by the time they got the book published. Speaking of, Morton is promoting the re-release of his 2019 book Meghan: A Hollywood Princess. We barely covered it in 2019, but Morton has added new chapters about how Meghan watched Diana’s 1997 funeral, and how… Meghan and Harry’s relationships with the Windsors were at rock bottom by the end of 2019.
Andrew Morton, who wrote a famous biography of Princess Diana with her help in 1992, has re-released a biography of the duchess. In new chapters of Meghan: A Hollywood Princess, he wrote: “It was clear that Meghan had ruffled feathers in the family and that they felt she and Harry were very difficult to deal with. For her part, Meghan found some of its members—not the Queen or Prince Philip—unfriendly and jealous. At a personal level, then, their departure from Britain was quietly welcomed by some in the Windsor family and their courtiers, but on an institutional level it was a heavy blow.”
Morton also suggested Prince William welcomed their decision to take a break at an earlier stage, when they spent Thanksgiving and Christmas 2019 in Canada. Meghan and Harry began negotiations to quit royal duties while they were on that trip, staying at a rental property on Vancouver Island.
Morton wrote: “Like many others, Prince William breathed a sigh of relief when Harry and Meghan announced that they were stepping back from royal duties for six weeks or so and spending Thanksgiving and Christmas in North America. The couple ended up in a remote luxury mansion on Vancouver Island loaned to them by a patriotic Canadian businessman. Palace aides, who had been urging the couple to slow down, were pleased to see them take a breath.”
The thing about the palace welcoming their break in late 2019 was reported at the time. Pretty much as soon as Meghan and Harry returned from their African tour, William was incandescent with rage and H&M wanted to get some physical and psychological distance from the Windsors. That part of it isn’t some piping hot tea, unless Morton is prepared to talk about how William’s goal from fall 2018 to fall 2019 was to exile his popular brother and sister-in-law. And of course Meghan found members of the royal family “unfriendly and jealous.” Because they were unfriendly and jealous!
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