Members of the royal family are weakened by the loss of Queen Elizabeth II, who died on September 8, 2022 at the age of 96. Everyone is now trembling for another reason: the upcoming arrival of Prince Harry’s written memoirs, which should be published worldwide in the spring of 2023. According to Random House, the publishing house that handles the book and its promotion, Archie and Lilibet’s dad is about to produce a “honest and captivating personal portrait“but also to tell”ups and downs, mistakes, lessons learned“… an “explosive” content which has reason to worry the Buckingham Palace teams.
According to media outlet Page Six, Prince Harry’s memoir does indeed promise to be “juicy” and should reveal some “new stories about the past that he hasn’t talked about before, about his childhood”. The royal family, particularly nervous, fears enormously for its reputation, in particular because of two points which could well be addressed in the book. Firstly, the Duke of Sussex could reveal the name of the racist person who resides at Buckingham Palace, who questioned Archie’s skin color before he was born, which Meghan Markle mentioned during her punch interview with Oprah Winfrey. Harry could also expand on the “difficult relationship“which he maintains with his mother-in-law, the queen consort, Camilla Parker Bowles.
Everyone has known for a long time that Prince Harry is working on his book. This initiative had also played tricks on him during the British national mourning and the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. Meghan Markle’s husband had indeed been excluded from several official dinners and his relatives had great difficulty speaking to him, fearing that their words would be modified and used against them. The Duchess of Sussex had been squarely suspected of wearing a microphone, under her dress, to record the slightest of her interactions during the various processions moving the body of the queen…