Completely agree with all statements, and thank you that you have read my position as well . I believe that our discourse just now, and mostly from all posters within this thread reflects quite well the way in which the book has been received GB nationally, as well as internationally.

I also feel for the plight of a child that has been born into a family that bore him out of duty, and suffered the loss of the only bonding love he had experienced at an early age. And then to live in nothing less than a zoo enclosure within glass walls.

Oh, and there is so much more to dig seriously into.

I do however feel, that I would have most probably purchased a book that had been written and published with more depth and a sense of (on-going) history - as this could have been. For that, I would however have engaged a different ghost writer and publisher.

Netflix would have probably still picked-up on it pretty quickly.

Unfortunately, as is, it‘s a piece of reality TV instead. And that‘s designed only to get the ‚popular‘ audience (many in the UK). That‘s why we haven‘t bought it - the headlines are enough.

Why do we keep referring to this as Harry’s book? He didn’t write it, I’m not even certain that he’s read it. It’s Moehringer’s book

Also full of inaccuracies. If he can’t remember that he was in Klosters with his father and brother, the day the Queen Mum died what other ‘mistakes’ are there.

He narrated the audio book, so he’s definitely read it.

But yes the inaccuracies are ridiculous. I remember where I was when the QM died and she wasn’t my great grandmother and it didn’t ruin my ski holiday. I can’t believe he doesn’t remember that, I wonder if he mixed it up with being told Princess Margaret had died - but even so it would be odd.

It looks like the Swedish parliament has adopted a law in order to bring the monarchy closer to Swedish reality and the monarch opposes its retroactive application and says it should have started with his grandkids not with his children. As if it would make any difference if the law had been passed 7 months earlier....the so-called "heir" was a baby at that time anyway, he didn't grow up knowing he's going to inherit the crown.
Looks like a classic case of a father favouring his son. His only "objection" is that Victoria is still a "young woman"...whatever that means.
It just proves one more time that monarchy is an outdated institution.
All these royalties have an unprecedented level of exposure, some more than others though....as for the Scandinavian monarchies, there's more...luckily it's just not everywhere in the press, you're not assaulted with new glimpses into the saga and you're not "forced" to take a side. But that has also to do with the style of these monarchies, they're definitely more modest


https://www.ft.com/content/56c77833-...0-5df3f572ad85

Guess they'll have to stay in an hotel like anyone else now.

http://www.bluewin.ch/fr/divertissem...e-1647144.html

Or under a bridge, like other trolls!

Tom

I know someone who bought it right from the start and couldn't finish it. It is that bad, apparently.

It probably is written by him.

Don't talk so harshly about their nemesis Clarkson...he's still a human being...

Don't be silly, Harry can't write, he looks at the pictures and makes it up as he goes along !

In English:

"Frogmore Cottage: Harry and Meghan 'requested to vacate' property"

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64815383

Tom

From there:

Prince Harry and Meghan refurbished the property, owned by the Crown Estate, at an estimated cost of £2.4m in 2018-19. The cost was initially covered by taxpayers through the Sovereign Grant before being repaid in full by the duke.

Oh, so the refurbishings paid for by Harry will now be used by someone else, perhaps Andrew.

No, they will be reimbursed, this has already been clearly stated

Frogxit!!

I love how they call a ten bedroom house "a cottage".

Are they now lower in the pecking order than Prince Andrew? That would be quite an achievement.

I think it's probably down to the fact that they are no longer resident in the UK and the property stands empty except for the odd days or a week that one or both of them comes back. Presumably they'll have an apartment in one of the palaces to use when they visit.

The tabloid press is working overtime to push their reputations to lower than Andrew so I guess this is clickbait gold for them.

This is sorta hilarious. Expecting Harry to come "home" fairly soon, but also wanting to stay in the marriage so he can see his kids grow up.

https://www.news18.com/world/prince-...r-7947793.html

They apparently tried to cadge a lift on Air Force One, but were refused. Not "don't ask, don't get" but "do ask, don't get".

Prince Harry and Meghan weren’t allowed to fly Air Force One with Biden after Queen’s funeral, report says

Planning to hitchhike with the US president...Only someone with no connection between prefrontal cortex and reality can be that delusional.

Absolutely no way the translator just added a paragraph by himself. Someone put those names in the version the Dutch translator got (or didn’t remove them), be it Scobie or someone else.

The fact that Harry hasn’t come out and said Charles and Kate aren’t racist is the final nail in him ever being accepted back into the family I think.

King Charles and the Princess of Wales have been named as the royals Meghan/Harry implied were racist in a Dutch version - since pulled by the publishers - of a book, "Endgame", by Omid Scobie, who wrote "Finding Freedom", a book in which Meghan at first denied involvement then admitted in court that a contact of hers had been a source.

Endgame: Royal race row naming not publicity stunt, says author Omid Scobie

Dutch translator of Omid Scobie’s Endgame denies making error: ‘The names were there in black and white’

If I remember correctly, in his interview with Tom Bradbury, Harry blamed the press for saying that he and his wife were claiming the royals were racist. I agree that if he and Meghan just let this rumble on it will look as if they endorse the claims about Charles and Kate.