After all, has been said and done, King Charles III will be the one getting his cake and eating it too.
According to a renowned royal expert with sources within The Palace walls, there is a huge possibility that Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, will have to make one of the biggest sacrifices of their lives — destroy the tell-all book and return the massive check.
It is believed that The Duke of Sussex received an advance of around $20 million for the first memoir.
The project was supposed to be released in the late fall or early winter of 2022, but the sudden passing of Queen Elizabeth II called for a drastic change of plan.
King Charles’s no-nonsense way of doing things and expectations that the monarchy be respected and protected demanded many revisions be made to the book.
However, according to royal biographer Tina Brown, the changes Prince Harry has been trying to make to the book might not be sufficient for the King.
The journalist believes that Prince Harry will have to press the nuclear button and eliminate the book as a whole.
The royal expert said the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would be banishing themselves for good from the royal family if that book is published.
The author of The Diana Chronicles and The Palace Papers spoke to The Telegraph and revealed that she does not think the “contentious biography will ever see the light of day.”
She revealed to the British publication: “If the book continues, I don’t think there is any way for Harry to return. So my view has always been that the book won’t see the light of day.”
She added: “They are now in this bind, where they’ve taken all this money, and Harry has made this book deal where he’s supposed to spill everything about his horrible life as a royal, but now he’s actually tortured about it because he understands there is no way back if he does it.”
A friend of the King recently revealed that he is looking for ways to possibly stop the book from being released.
The pal told The Daily Mail: “The question inside the Palace is: “Can the book be stopped?” It may be that even Harry can’t stop it at this stage, but the feeling at the very top is that there’s no good that can come of airing grievances in public.”
Prince Harry and Markle are already on thin ice with King Charles, who is said to be eying their “permanent exile” after their revelations and bombshells that stained the mnarchy after “Megxit.”
Releasing a book with humiliating secrets and never-told stories that might potentially cause damage to King Charles’s reign might give him enough reasons to carry on his plan to reduce them to irrelevant royals who stepped down from their duties and self-exiled to California.
The Daily Beast revealed: “Prince Harry faces a life of permanent “exile,” with King Charles plotting to follow the playbook drawn up by the royals as they overcame the crisis triggered by Edward VIII, the King who abdicated in 1936 and was obliged to live the rest of his life outside the U.K.”
A friend of the King’s told The Daily Beast this about the banishing plan: “The royals handled the abdication crisis by exiling Edward, which meant he and Wallis ultimately came to seem like unimportant, misguided, disloyal, and even treacherous individuals to almost the entirety of the British people. It was a masterful operation in the service of which the Queen Mother, in particular, worked tirelessly. The same thing is already happening with Harry and Meghan and will only gather pace over the next few years under the rule of King Charles. And, of course, a wayward second son is far less of an existential threat to the fabric of the Monarchy than a wayward king.”
The Sussexes have a difficult choice ahead of them.
