Soon after attending the Platinum Jubilee with the royal family, Prince Harry will be making major headlines with the publication of his first memoir.
The tell-all book from a high-ranking royal family member, who is currently in line for the British throne, is highly anticipated and is predicted to be a bestseller.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have more or less given many previews of how far they are willing to go when it comes to dishing out the Palace secrets and selling sensitive information about the royals.
The pair signed a massive $20 million deal with a publishing company so expect truth bombs to be dropped.
After they stepped down from their royal duties in 2020, Markle and the British prince sat down with Oprah Winfrey.
They shared numerous jaw-dropping revelations that made it impossible to look at the British royals the same way. Racist and abandonment accusations were levied.
Prince Harry also accused the famous family of causing him generational pain. The Oprah interview angered many and further damaged the Duke and Duchess of Sussex‘s relationships with the royals.
However, that did not stop Prince Harry from quickly reproducing the same chaos by appearing on NBC just days after private meetings with the Queen and Prince Charles.
Prince Harry claimed that Queen Elizabeth shared secrets with him, and he stirred the pot by saying that she needed to be protected.
It is believed that Prince Harry will spill the tea in his book in the same capacity because he has to get his truth out, no matter how harsh it might be.
Tina Brown, the author of the new book The Palace Papers, has claimed that Prince Harry’s memoir will be “very harsh” in an interview with the Washington Post.
The royal expert revealed what readers should expect from the renegade prince by saying: “I’m told it’s [the book] going to be very harsh. I am told it’s going to be a harsh book because he’s anxious to quote, you know, “tell his truth.”
In the fall of 2020, Prince Harry announced the book via a press release where he promised to talk about “mistakes and lessons learned” during his life and explained that his words would be “accurate and wholly truthful.”
Prince Harry made this confession about the book: “I’m writing this not as the prince I was born, but as the man, I have become.”
Brown revealed how the royals feel about the announcement: “Harry’s announcement that he’s also going to do, you know, a tell-all memoir coming out this September was just a huge issue for the whole family. It’s like, and they have it now hanging over them like the sword of Damocles that come the fall, they’re gonna get another boatload, you know, of flak from inside their own family just at a point when the monarchy is very fragile with the Queen, you know, on a glide path to the end of her life. So, there’s a lot of anger about that, in some ways.”
The publication of the book comes as Queen Elizabeth is celebrating the joyous milestone of her Platinum Jubliee or 70 years on the British throne.
Many have called out Prince Harry for taking the spotlight from his grandmother’s accomplishments.
Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams shared his thoughts on the matter via Express: “The idea that Harry is publishing a memoir, I think, has potential problems — serious potential problems. It’s the wrong year for it — commercial considerations like that which will involve serialization linked to the Platinum Jubilee — this is a special year in royal history; the focus should be on the Queen.”
Some believe that Prince Harry will mainly use his memoir to share details about his complicated relationship with his stepmother, Camilla Parker Bowles, and Her Majesty will be spared.
Omid Scobie, Markle and Prince Harry’s pal and bestselling author, revealed that the book’s content would surprise many.
Speaking on an episode of Royally Obsessed, he said: “Harry really is going out of his way to make sure that there isn’t material in there [the book] that can be seen as negative towards the Queen or her reign in any way whatsoever, and he really wants to celebrate her life and his relationship with her in that book. I think as much as the press wants this to be a burn book and an attack on the institution, this is more just about his story, and of course, his story is so much more than just the few years of his life as the Duke of Sussex. I think for people expecting that warts and all moment, it’s not going to happen. That said, it’s still going to be fascinating.”
Prince Harry’s book will have many layers.
