These are awful people. Even if the royal institution is pretty awful itself - financial corruption is major. King Charles takes money from Saudi Arabians for citizenship and titles, for his charity projects - restoring a grand old house he bought in Scotland. He also takes money to have people invited to banquets and seated near him. But this is not the subject of the book. … And What Do You Do?: What The Royal Family Don't Want You To Know is the one to read for that. So I read this to see how we got here. Everyone wanted them to succeed (their family because it would be good for the monarchy and the public because they loved Harry). It should have been a great success and yet, here we are. A biography, docuseries, interviews and even guest appearances on comedy shows later and the story keeps changing and the truths keep contradicting themselves. I'm not going to pretend it was a worthwhile read, but it only took me two days so I don't feel like I wasted too much time on it. With dedication and meticulous research, Tom Bower set the record straight on the Meghan Brand and the lies(that would destroy many people) and bring seismic changes to the Royal family and Harry's lives. She relied heavily on her version of her truth to launch herself into fame and fortune. It is a fascinating tale of an actress who wanted to establish herself as an activist, feminist and philanthropist. Her involvement in any endevour would be strictly on her own terms. Meghan rewrote her history. It was important to correspond with the stepping stones she wanted to use to rise above her own mediocrity (or social nothingness). The real Meghan had nothing to sell. The carefully curated, and forensically planned fantasy-Meghan had a better chance to succeed.

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For context: I’m writing this after Harry’s ghost-written biography came out (on top of all the rest of it). I don’t want to read it but since it was leaked I already know what it says anyway. It seemed like people couldn’t stop talking about it. And worse taking his word for it (that is a privilege that would not be given to ordinary people for good reason). I will never stop being surprised that with a war on, inflation, people who cannot afford to pay their bills, climate change, people suffering from life long effects of illness, etc this is the situation that is supposed to deserve all our compassion. Really, this is supposed to top all of that? At this point in my submersion in British Royal history, just about everyone on the planet could probably trace their heritage to Edward III so that really doesn’t impress me, MM. Now, about the subjects of this book, there's a very tiny age difference between me and her so, to hear her say in the "engagement interview", she had never heard of Harry or Diana or the RF...say what? She grew up white, never worked while in school, wasn't present with uprisings in Los Angeles, did not live in poverty in a small converted garage in Hollywood with her father, and was not bullied in school as a mixed-race child. She did not work her way through college all by herself. Did not happen. Daddy paid all the way. She claimed she spent ten years of her life on the set of Married With Children in the afternoons after school. Nope, it was her Friday afternoon treat only. She also claimed that she spent her 'entire senior year' working at the US embassy in Argentina, when it was only five weeks.I said it here, and I will repeat it one last time, for the most part I avoid reading gossip books or royal biographies, unless the subject's been dead for a mininum amount of time....Hello Queen Victoria! Great literature, of course. Perhaps the greatest. If you have not yet read it, I suggest the following: buy two copies and give one to your friend. Read the book separately. Then, sit down to discuss who the Danish Prince Hamlet really is. You’ll never finish, I promise. Hamlet is second on my list because, in terms of revenge, Shakespeare met his match in Dumas. One slowly builds up his revenge for a quarter of a century. The other engages in hasty murders and long procrastination. Update 2 If you find something in a book that is not true, it makes you doubt everything doesn't it? Meghan's 'game' in the media, especially interviews is to rely on no one actually knowing the truth (in the US) and so she gets away with it. The author is playing exactly the same game.

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The author never says it out loud, nor does it write it down, but I believe he sees the pararells with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and how that story ended....talk about another cluster& In her own terms Meghan's career had been an astounding success. Thanks to her father she had prospered despite her parent's divorce and, during her school years, her mother's frequent absence. Thereafter her acting career and personal relationships had been a mixed success. At 24 she had faced an uncertain future. Meeting Harry (which she orchestrated) had delivered the fame and fortunes she had sought since childhood. Engineering that encounter and overcoming the justified doubters among Harry's family exposed the determination of a Hollywood survivor. Toughness came with a price. She tried to claim that her distant great great great Irish grandmother Mary Bird lived in Malta and got married in 1860 to Thomas Bird. It was said that Mary Bird was employed as a cook in 1856 at Windsor Castle. However, Malta was in the mix in another way. Thomas Bird married Marry McCue in Donnybrook, Dublin in January 1860 (clearly excluding any employment in Windsor Castle). Bird was then posted with his wife to India, and briefly to Malta.

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You know when someone is negative and a dragger? That is the whole narrative, from the book conception to the choice of wording. It is a cynical and biased effort to cash some easy money by the author, the publisher and (I can’t rule out) some people interviewed for the book. In my youth, I was fascinated by the Swedish writer PC Jersild’s novel A Living Soul, in which the protagonist is in fact a free-floating brain inside an aquarium standing in a laboratory. The brain falls in love with its caregiver, which doesn’t work out brilliantly. When I, 37 years later, read Ian McEwan, I was reminded of A Living Soul . In Nutshell, the protagonist is an unborn foetus inside its mother’s womb. It’s bleak, funny, murderous – and Hamlet-inspired. One can only hope that she will have the insight to realize that the monarchy is feuling her dreams in Hollywood and the political stage in America. Her claim to victimhood might work for the dollars to role in. For now. To become rich, she needs the royals. They do not need her. She created the new Harry as a stepping stone. She will have to maintain him, cherish him and ensure his survival in her self-important Meghan Brand, or she's toast. This instant #1 internationally bestselling “explosive tell-all” ( Daily Express, London) reveals the inside story about Meghan Markle’s journey from minor actress and attempted activist to the woman powerful enough to fracture the British Royal Family. It seems that Harry has well and truly made a mess of his life. Some of the responsibility falls on the shoulders of the Royal Family, for not better instilling in him a purpose in life and a raison d'etre. Most of the responsibility though, falls on Harry himself for being a 30-something year old man baby who never outgrew his childhood trauma.