Opinion That if Meghan this that if Meghan that... Long live the queen!
Meghan and Harry are "a threat" to the British royal family, the Duchess of Sussex is doing "something terrible against the United Kingdom" and the queen's favorite red-haired grandson "has become her accomplice"... So far some of the accusations made against the famous couple by the journalist Tom Bower, author of an
unauthorized biography
that makes things clear from the title:
Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war of the Windsors.
Tom Bower maintains that
his initial idea was a more impartial approach to the figure of Meghan Markle
, whom he even aspired to interview for the book.
As he progressed, and after speaking with eighty "acquaintances" of the duchess, he was able to verify the animosity that he left behind throughout his life and that in his opinion could have its roots in having grown up in
a "broken family"
(The same thing that curiously happened to
Boris Johnson
, the protagonist of
The Gambler
, the immediately preceding biography of the popular British author who has also written about the lives of Prince Charles, Tony Blair and Robert Maxwell).
Revenge
has just gone on sale in the UK and Bower himself has been in charge of making all the noise possible with the help of
Piers Morgan
, the television presenter and one of Meghan's biggest detractors.
"When she was nine or ten years old, she said to her father, '
I
want to walk the red carpet,'"
Bower
recalled on camera.
to have been an almost unknown actress, was
to marry Harry, who fell in love with her in a ridiculous way
.”
To illustrate her quest for prominence, Bower recalls the behind-the-scenes scenes of the Platinum Jubilee…
"Meghan asked to be present on the balcony of Buckingham Palace
, in large part because she knew the value of being close to the queen for
the documentary they are shooting for Netflix
. Prince Charles was the one who most opposed their appearance. In the end They only made a short appearance at St. Paul's Cathedral and left with pent-up anger at
not getting the featured role they would have wanted
."
Another revelation from the book is the expression of great relief ("Thank God!") that the queen blurted out to her staff as soon as she learned that Meghan and Harry were not traveling for
Philip of Edinburgh's funeral.
in April 2021. Meghan was pregnant with a girl she would call Lilibet (something that the queen did not like either).
The monarch was still pinning the couple's interview with Oprah, in which they accused the royal family of covert racism and disdain for Meghan.
Tom Bower accuses Meghan in her book of lying and
playing the victim over the incident with Kate Middleton
during her wedding in Windsor.
As Meghan declared on her day, Kate was the one who starred in the moment of tension between the two that made her cry: "But then she apologized and sent me flowers."
Bower's story, however, completely turns the situation on its head...
"It was Kate Middelton who shed a few tears at the way Meghan Markle compared Princess Charlotte to Ivy, her friend Jessica Mulroney's daughter. Both had already had
their ups and downs from the fact that the ladies of honor whether or not she was wearing stockings
, and because of the hem length of Charlotte's skirt, which she believed was too short".
The book also recounts how the queen and Prince Charles had a long call in which they
tried to persuade Meghan
to travel to personally convince her father, Thomas Markle, to
attend the wedding in Windsor .
.
The bride retorted that it was "very unrealistic to think that she could discreetly travel to Mexico and arrive unannounced on her doorstep and elude the '
paparazzi
'."
In
Revenge
, Tom Bower
illustrates Meghan's "abusive" treatment of her own entourage
, "and in particular towards four women who worked for her and towards British diplomatic staff" during the couple's visit to Australia.
"In a fit of rage, she ended up throwing a cup of tea into the air," Bower writes.
"Although his anger may have been fueled by Harry himself: every night, he
dives into social media
for comments about the couple."
"Meghan is a smart person,
Bower concludes.
"She's a woman who was nobody, born into a broken family, an unknown actress who wanted to have been on the
British
reality show
Strictly Come Dancing
, and who suddenly found herself turned by Harry into a global star, which is what always wanted".
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