Finding freedom biography
Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family
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The first, epic and true story of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s life together, finally revealing why they chose to pursue a more independent path, despite Harry’s deep devotion to his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II, and the reasons behind their unprecedented decision to step away from their royal lives, from two top royal reporters who have been behind the scenes since the couple first met. Finding Freedom is complete with full color photographs from Harry and Meghan’s courtship, wedding, Archie’s milestones, every unforgettable moment.
When news of the budding romance between a beloved English prince and an American actress broke, it captured the world’s attention and sparked an international media frenzy. But while the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have continued to make headlines—from their engagement, wedding, and birth of their son Archie to their unprecedented decision to step back from their royal lives—few know the true story of Harry and Meghan.
For the very first time, Finding Freedom goes beyond the headlines to reveal unknown details of Harry and Meghan’s life together, dispelling the many rumors and misconceptions that plague the couple on both sides of the pond. As members of the select group of reporters that cover the British Royal Family and their engagements, Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand have witnessed the young couple’s lives as few outsiders can.
With unique access and written with the participation of those closest to the couple, Finding Freedom is an honest, up-close, and disarming portrait of a confident, influential, and forward-thinking couple who are unafraid to break with tradition, determined to create a new path away from the spotlight, and dedicated to building a humanitarian legacy that will make a profound difference in the world.
The indelible cultural imprint that revolution left means that, even if you snoozed through history lessons and know nothing about the real reasons this seminal moment in the 18th century actually occurred; you’ll probably have heard of Marie Antoinette, and her famous quote: ‘let them eat cake.’
The saying was one of the earliest examples of ‘fake news’ (she never actually said that) and the power of a nasty media campaign that has dominated our view of this woman - over two hundred years later.
In , do you imagine we will attribute the crumbling of the British monarchy to Meghan-Antoinette? I’m beginning to think so.
Before it was Marie-Antoinette, dozens of famous historical queens. The 15th century queen Elizabeth Woodville (a witch!), Henry VIII’s second wife Anne Boleyn (a church-changing-adulterer!) and Charles I’s queen Henrietta Maria (a French spy!) were all made targets for their royal husband’s unpopularity. The archetype is so well-worn by now. Behind a prominent man who does wrong, or makes what we perceive as an uncharacteristic or unpopular move; there is probably a woman we can blame for it.
We do this not only to royal women, but to any woman. Think of Jeffrey Epstein and how much more magnified our collective hatred has been for Ghislaine Maxwell, the woman at his side. Think how much the public came for Hillary Clinton for the sins of her husband. Cherie Blair was more vilified than her husband, even Michelle Obama received more vitriol than Barack when he ran for president.
From Eve and Lady Macbeth to Marie-Antoinette and Meghan Markle; for some reason - let's call it centuries of institutionalised misogyny- we swerve the man as target, and shoot straight for the woman.
The most natural comparison to Meghan, of course, is Wallis Simpson- another American divorce, blamed for de-throning an English prince.
In her case, this was quite literal. Instead of abandoning her, Edward VIII abdicated his throne in , became the Duke of Windso biography Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of A Modern Royal Family is a biography by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, revolving around the married lives of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The book was written with the Duchess's contribution through a third-party source. It was published on 11 August by HarperCollins. The biography describes the lives of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, over the course of their courtship, marriage, and eventual departure from the British royal family. The book goes into detail about their relationship, royal household and personal lives. In May , two months after Megxit, HarperCollins announced the forthcoming publication of Finding Freedom, a biography of the Duke and Duchess authored by royal reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand. Durand is a producer and writer with two decades of experience with the Royal Rota. She has previously interviewed multiple members of the royal family and contributes regularly to print outlets. Scobie is the royal editor for Harper's Bazaar, and regularly contributes to Good Morning America and ABC News. He reportedly "maintains strong access to the Sussexes' working world." The book was reported to detail the events leading up to Megxit and reveal "unknown details about the couple's life together" with "participation of those closest to the couple". The information in the book was stated to have been drawn from "more than one hundred sources". Media outlets reported that the Sussexes had contributed to Finding Freedom, which representatives for the couple initially denied. In November , Meghan's legal team admitted that she had permitted a close friend to communicate with Scobie and Durand, "so the true position cou Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family
I have no respect for any of these people. Meghan equates success with fame and big, big money. So it is endlessly milking of her connection to the Royal Family. She hasn't got anything else to say that anyone was ever interested in. Two animal metaphors - she was the spider who lured the fly into her web as her main means of climbing the ladder of 'success', he is the lamphrey, the jawless fish that attaches itself by suckers to a shark or other fish and derives everything it needs in life from it.
What I think is the worst, is not the 'we moved to California for privacy and only brief our two PR teams once a day and do Oprah, Netflix, anything that will pay us for our Royal stories' is that she cut off her father because he sold pics to the paparazzi - so wtf was she doing briefing them to photograph her laying a wreath, doing anonymous charity etc - and all her family. And has done the same with Harry. He got on with his brother, was best friends with his sister-in-law, his grandmother before Meghan, and now he joins her in her poisonous and often lying statements about them.
I'm no royalist. I'm not exactly a republican either. In other words if the UK became a republic, I have no issue with that, if it says a monarchy, the same. I think the royal family are self-entitled people who exploit everything they can for more, even more money and have laws enacted to protect their greed and privacy, see … And What Do You Do Finding Freedom
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