That’s it, The King: the life of Charles III, the biography of the monarch signed Christopher Andersen, is now available in bookstores. This book was eagerly awaited, as it promised new and crisp anecdotes about the son of Elizabeth II. And it seems that this promise has been kept since we learn that when meeting Meghan Markle for the first time in 2016 – at the request of Prince Harry who had not yet formalized with the actress – he had not “no idea Harry’s new girlfriend was mixed race.”
“Not that it would have mattered at all, of course. But I didn’t realize that until later,” he would have admitted to one of his American friends at the time, reveals the writer. A “detail“which could surprise more than one, while the writer adds that Charles III has already been at the origin of a few “blunders”, including one also in relation to a physical appearance. “He told a Guyanese-born writer she didn’t ‘look’ like she was born in Manchesterprobably because she was black and wore dreadlocks”, said Christopher Andersen. Recently, we learned that he would also have had an unflattering remark with regard to Prince Harry, about the color of his hair.
“Very charming” and “absolutely delicious”
Revelations not really to his advantage, when he has already been the subject of several controversies since taking office for various reasons, in particular because of a pen which had caused immense anger on his part. But despite all this, he would have greatly appreciated Meghan Markle from their first meeting.
He would have found her in particular “very charming” and “absolutely delicious”, with an air of Pippa Middleton, confided relatives of the family to Christopher Andersen. The latter also took the opportunity to tell this time in his book the first meeting between Queen Elizabeth II and still Meghan Markle.
“The Queen, who has had countless personal encounters with people of all races, ethnicities and religions during her reign, is appeared totally devoid of prejudice. Not once did we hear [la reine] make an inappropriate comment on the skin color of his interlocutors”, he wrote. Prince Philip also reportedly liked Meghan Markle when they met, and would “immediately“attached to her.