There are juicy, new clues about what Prince Harry will unveil in his upcoming memoir – and his grandmother could pay the perfect price.
The pen, at least in accordance to playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton, is mightier than the sword but then I think eight-figure book deals didn’t exist in 1839 when he was busy jotting down that famous line.
Because pens, whether a badly chewed Bic or a Mont Blanc, would possibly be effective – but a humungous deal with the world’s greatest publisher is even mightier still.
Currently, in some secretive computer drive protected by way of a password only marginally enhanced than that protecting the nuclear codes, is the manuscript of Prince Harry’s memoir. Reportedly set to be launched before the quit of the year, the creator himself has promised that he would be writing “not as the Prince I was once born however as the man I have become”.
And that man he has become? Well, that man appears like he has pretty the axe to grind, with new clues suggesting his e book could be even greater of a Buckingham Palace-rattling doozy than in the past thought.
The question that has started to take structure is this: Is Harry about to ‘betray’ the Queen once and for all?
Since bailing on palace lifestyles to swan round California in hulking four-wheel drives and to pay energetic lip provider to the thinking of service, Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex have of course carried out their darnedest to end up the loudest and most vociferous critics of the royal family for the reason that the English Civil War.
But still, even in the face of all that, some ties with the monarchy mothership, and particularly with Her Majesty, have held. After all, the Sussexes were there, albeit in the literal and figurative second row, again in June for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and they paid the 96-year-old a quickie go to lower back in April when they have been on their way to the Netherlands.
But that was then and this is now.
As the clock ticks down to the launch of Harry’s book, will – or even can – this fragile tie preserve as soon as his autobiography lands with a thud?
‘Nothing is sacrosanct’ in Harry’s memoir
For months now there have been reviews speculating about what revelations and criticisms the Duke may have been busy scribbling in his ‘My First Tell-All’ notebook.
Tom Bower, in his newly launched Revenge: Meghan, Harry And The War Between The Windsors, makes the case that “nothing and no one” have been held “sacrosanct” by way of Harry in writing his book.
Uh oh … let’s hope the corgis and dorgis haven’t learnt to read.
Rewind to February 6 this year, Her Majesty’s Accession Day, when the Queen made the unexpected announcement that it used to be her “sincere wish” that her daughter-in-law Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall would be topped alongside her son Prince Charles.
Bower writes that in the wake of the Camilla news, “any doubts about Harry’s antagonism in the direction of his us of a and family have been dispelled via his stony silence” on the count and that his “refusal to acknowledge the Queen’s selection foreshadowed the problems to come”.
According to Bower: “Occasionally, [Harry] regarded inclined to betray each cost he formerly held dear. No one realised how his hostility had grown in the course of his conversations with John Moehringer, the ghostwriter of his memoirs.”
“To earn the estimated increase of about $US20 million ($A28.8 million), Harry would be expected to give Moehringer emotional confessions and secret details. These would settle his rankings with his household and friends.”
“Among the aims without William, Kate and Charles would be Camilla. Meghan had recognized her as racist.”
In Revenge, Bower writes that the Duke of Sussex was “[edging] in the direction of betraying” some of the human beings he had been closest to.
“To tightly closed widespread sales and recoup the massive advance, the publishers had influenced Harry to criticise his family in the most extreme terms possible,” Bower said. “Easily persuaded, Harry edged closer to betraying his father, Camilla, the Cambridges and even the Queen. And then, the deed was once done. To earn out the publisher’s advance, nothing and no one had been sacrosanct.”
It is that ultimate sentence that is the most ominous.
If what Bower reviews is correct, then it sounds like the Duke of Sussex’s book should go even similarly than the denunciations of the monarchy and his family that he and Meghan have wheeled out for this reason far. (You know, the sensational costs of palace racism, “total neglect” and a callous dismiss for the wellness of The Firm’s most prone members.)
Who is in Harry’s firing line?
Meanwhile, elsewhere, the Daily Mail’s very well linked Richard Kay has said that “there is great nervousness in Buckingham Palace circles that Harry, 37, will use the memoir to settle perceived scores with household members and senior courtiers.”
“It is the disintegration of the bond between him and William over the past three years which has so alarmed courtiers.”
One individual who has routinely been named as a possible target of Harry’s literary ire is Camilla.
According to Kay, “Five years ago, lengthy before he had idea about writing a book, Harry invited pals of his mother to share reminiscences and personal images of her.
“One at least had a prolonged dialogue with him about Camilla.”
“It was pretty clear that he did now not have a high opinion of her,” Diana’s pal later informed Kay. “He wasn’t very complimentary about her and I very a whole lot doubt he forgot what we talked about that day.”
Blow to the coronary heart of the monarchy
If you take Bower and Kay’s claims together, then it is looking more and more like the seemingly perma-disgruntled Prince will be pulling no punches on the web page when it comes to his household and the monarchy.
And what that potential is that, even if he only writes in the most glowing and affectionate terms about his grandmother herself, his memoir ought to be an abject betrayal of Her Majesty.
Should Harry spend a chunk of his e book taking intention at unique household contributors and a number pinstriped staffers who run the royal dog-and-pony show, that would nonetheless represent a strike against the female who is the head of both the House of Windsor and the group of the monarchy.
Anything that humiliates or undermines the monarchy in a roundabout way humiliates or undermines the Top Lady (as Diana known as her mother-in-law).
Or to quote Louis XIV, “l’etat, c’est Moi,” which translates to “the kingdom is me”.
If Harry does go down this route, then it would be a watershed moment, the sort of line to which there is a very clear ‘before’ and a dramatically exclusive ‘after’.
In this scenario, it is tough to see how he should ever go again in any sense.
In early 2021, Harry appeared on James Corden’s Late Late Show in a dignity-defying appearance (who should ever neglect him asking a entire stranger if he may want to use their loo?) and published that the Queen had given the Sussex household a waffle maker for Christmas. This year, will any family home equipment be winging their way from Windsor to California?
So, so a good deal is on the line with this book and it may turn out that in 2022, a huge cheque may cease up being the mightiest force of them all.
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