The hits keep coming. The first excerpts from the new Harry and Meghan biography Finding Freedom revealed a lot of animosity between the Wales brothers. However, we found one thing surprising; the Duke and Duchess of Sussex did NOT contribute to the book.
Okay, we’re confused. It is now being said that Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan did NOT contribute to the writing of the Finding Freedom biography that is coming in August. Instead, they probably knew about the book but chose to distance themselves from it as they thought the authors, Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, would do a good job telling ‘their side of the story’.
From the excerpts that have been released, it is revealed that Harry and Meghan were, in fact, jealous of William and Catherine getting the better engagements. While this certainly doesn’t surprise us, they believed they weren’t being taken seriously enough.
Please! They were being demanded and throwing fits when no one listened to them. If Royal correspondent Katie Nicholl’s recent Vanity Fair article is anything to go off, the Sussexes were ‘put under an umbrella’, which means when they set up offices in Kensington Palace, which they saw as a disappointment. The reason? Because they saw themselves as equally as important as William and Catherine.
Anyway, let’s dive into the Sussexes’ jealousy of the Cambridges.
Meghan Doesn’t Like Playing Second Fiddle
What do you get when you’re married to the heir to the throne’s second-born son? Less opportunity than Prince William and Catherine do, that’s for sure. Well, little miss, I want everything… ah! Meghan, sorry. She wanted everything done her way and would not contribute to the royal protocols she was expected to follow.
She and Harry had so many staff members quit that it was almost impossible to keep track of how many nannies they’d lost before Archie was even six months old. What does that tell you? If a staff member couldn’t comply with Meghan’s rules, they were likely fired or quit on their own accord. But, again, this is NOT Hollywood.
Meghan should’ve married William if she wanted to be high up in the pecking order. In Katie’s article, it is established that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex felt that the palace prioritised the Cambridges over them, which was one of the many reasons they stepped away from royal duties.
Seriously though. What did Meghan expect when she found out Harry wasn’t going to be king? Sure, she loves him, but did she want the pressures of being a Queen/Princess consort? Honestly, she wouldn’t have been able to cope. Catherine has been excellent and will be a terrific support to her husband when he ascends the throne.
Limited Understandings
Since Harry will never be king, he and Meghan seem to have a limited understanding of why they had to take a ‘backseat’ when prioritising their duties. They were popular, but so were William and Catherine. However, this means little when only one of Prince Charles’ sons becomes monarch. Also, the Duchess of Sussex has allegedly described her treatment in the media as ‘death by a thousand cuts’.
Also, the couple failed to understand why Prince Charles and William’s projects were more of a priority than theirs were. Ahh… they’re the heirs to the throne. They matter more than the sixth-in-line and those underneath.
Charles and William will be king someday so that people will value their opinions more. Yes, the other members of the family’s opinions matter too, but the heirs will make the decisions.
Harry and Meghan will not contribute too much to those decisions and now that they’re out as senior royals, their opinions don’t matter. So while Charles will likely listen to their ideas, it will be William’s ideas that get preference.,
Hounded By The Press
We understand that Harry hates the press and the media. They’re a menace when they cannot take a hint and leave people alone. However, Harry and Meghan are at fault for bringing the paparazzi to their front door. So while all the Markle stans will go, ‘she doesn’t deserve this!’ let us speak first.
The paparazzi were the ones who hounded Diana the night she died in that Parisian tunnel. We understand that Harry suffered tremendous grief over his mother’s death. However, the way he and his wife are saying, ‘Oh, we didn’t ask for the bad press, we’re going to sue everyone who prints something terrible about us’ is just ridiculous.
Harry should’ve known there was zero that could be done to stop a publication from printing something terrible. The old royal saying goes, “Never explain, never complain.” So they should have just tolerated it. However, Meghan was in the right to sue the newspaper that published her letter to her dad, though it was likely to have been quashed. The same applies to the photos of Archie.
Though, Harry and Meghan are going about it in the wrong way. You can’t go around suing every publication that says something terrible. That’s a waste of money. If you’re having trouble with your mental health, go to a therapist. You have enough money to do that. So what if the royal PR department or whatever says don’t do it?
They’re looking out for the best interests of everyone, but at the end of the day, a person’s mental health is much more critical. Back in the day of the Queen’s early reign, no royal would’ve spoken up about such a private matter the way Harry and William have.
Brought On Themselves
Back to what we were saying about Harry and Meghan bringing on the media mistreatment themselves. Trying to right a publication’s wrong is like adding gasoline to a fire you’re trying to contain. Trying to ‘defend’ themselves will only create more of an issue.
Were they paranoid in thinking family members, friends, and courtiers were leaking stories to the press? Yes. What proof do they have? You can’t just accuse that without actual evidence. It’s simple detective work/journalism 101.
Meghan even said in the African documentary that her British friends warned her the UK press would tear her apart if she continued dating Harry. At the time, she naively said, “I’m American, the paparazzi isn’t that bad. I’ll be fine”, or something along those lines. What makes this an even bigger headache is that she and Harry didn’t devise a game plan to conquer the media without creating a bigger problem.
There needs to be a line drawn in how members of the royal family, whether financially independent or not, handle the press. No one, no matter who they are, should be facing the struggles many royal newcomers face. Look at the husbands of Princess Beatrice and Eugenie, for example. They haven’t gotten the same treatment Meghan has as their wives are not working royals.
Meghan and Harry are making every story sound worse than it probably is. Just IGNORE the article. Yes, things written can hurt, but if you add weight to what is written, people will perceive it to be true.
