Meghan Markle had “mild concerns” about Prince Harry’s memoir

Meghan Markle raised “mild concerns” about Prince Harry’s decision to release Spare and worried whether it was the right move, it was claimed today.

As the Duke of Sussex’s memoir hit the couple’s popularity on both sides of the Atlantic, his wife is said to have expressed concern that it might ruffle the feathers.

The royal couple are known for putting up a united front, including during the incendiary interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021. Harry was also in the audience with schoolchildren in New York. Meghan promoted her book The Bench.

But while Harry, 38, has released his explosive memoir Spare, which criticizes his family and reveals he killed 25 Taliban fighters, Meghan, 41, has been conspicuously absent from any promotions or interviews.

She reportedly stayed away because she would have been accused of ‘trying to steal the spotlight’, but also ‘media savvy’ Meghan may have expressed mild concerns about whether the book was the right move. a source told the Telegraph.

The source said: ‘Is this the way she would have approached things? Possibly not. But she will always support him and she would never have gotten involved in promoting such a personal project. It was about her own life, her journey, and her own perspective.

The book’s release coincided with Harry’s popularity plummeting to an all-time low following the fallout from his memoirs, both in the US and the UK.

Meghan and Harry attend the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Gala in New York last month

Meghan Markle has been seen much less frequently since the release of Spare

Since its release, Harry himself has admitted that he had made changes to the book.

The duke told the Telegraph that he opted to omit several bombs because he was concerned that his father and brother would “never forgive” him.

‘The first draft was different. They were 800 pages, and now they have been reduced to 400 pages. It could have been two books, so to speak. And the hard part was getting things out,” he said.

“There are some things that have happened, especially between me and my brother, and to a certain extent between me and my father, that I just don’t want the world to know about. Because I don’t think they’ll ever forgive me.

But he warned the royals: “The way I see it, I’m willing to forgive them for everything they’ve done, and I wish they’d really sit down with me, properly, and instead of saying I’m delusional and paranoid: really sit down and have a proper conversation about this, because what I would really like is some accountability, and an apology to my wife.

The duke has faced a storm over Spare, which has driven an extraordinary wedge between him and the rest of his family.

Harry claimed that he knew that including details about intimate moments with his family would generate backlash, but ultimately decided that he couldn’t tell his story honestly without them.

However, there are other details that I knew would cross the line if I published them.

These memories were shared with his ghostwriter for context only and did not make the final cut.

Harry and Meghan are said to have signed a four-book deal worth more than £16 million ($20 million) with publishing giant Penguin Random House.

He told the Telegraph that any chance of reconciliation with his family is “unlikely at the moment,” arguing that you don’t make friends, “especially within my family,” if you talk about trauma.

He said: ‘How dare you talk about it, because it makes us feel uncomfortable?’

His message to the royal family is that while “they may not like me right now,” hopefully five or ten years from now, “maybe they’ll thank me.”

The Sussexes often form a united front, like when Harry appeared at the end of his wife’s interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021.

She’s made a number of cameos since then, from sitting in the audience with schoolchildren in New York while Meghan promoted her book The Bench, to window juggling at the end of her 40th birthday video.

“We are like salt and pepper,” Meghan once said. We always move together.

But when Harry released his explosive memoir, Meghan has been conspicuously absent.

Meghan Markle was “more cautious” about the release of Prince Harry’s memoir, the sources claimed, as the Duchess was conspicuously absent from her lengthy media tour.

The royal couple usually bond, with Prince Harry appearing at the end of his wife’s interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021.

The Duke sits with schoolchildren as Meghan reads her book The Bench in New York in September 2021.

The memoirs include claims that the Prince of Wales physically attacked him and taunted him for his panic attacks, and that the King put his own interests above Harry’s and was jealous of Meghan and the Princess of Wales.

The prince has been involved in a number of high-profile media engagements since the book’s release on January 10, including an interview with Anderson Cooper for CBS’s 60 Minutes.

He also appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Very Lonely.

The Duchess was last seen publicly with Prince Harry in December 2022, when the royal couple traveled to New York to accept an award for their ‘heroic’ stand against ‘structural racism’ in the Royal Family.

sources have said the Telegraph that if Meghan had been involved in any aspect of the book’s promotion, she may well have been accused of trying to steal the spotlight.

Others have suggested that Meghan’s absence sends a message: This is Harry’s project.

A source close to the couple said Meghan was “more concerned” about the extremely personal memories than the prince, adding that she might have raised “mild concerns”.

It has also been alleged that ‘truth bombs’ revealed in Prince Harry’s tell-all memoirs could have ‘dire consequences’ for his wife Meghan’s political ambitions.

In one passage, the prince, known as ‘Captain Wales’ while in the army, wrote that he did not think of the murdered ‘as people’ but as ‘chess pieces’ that he had removed from the board.

The prince has been involved in a number of high-profile media engagements since the book’s release on January 10, including an interview with Anderson Cooper for CBS’s 60 Minutes.

Another scene described taking cocaine “sometimes” when he was 17 and a bad mushroom trip that saw him hallucinate that a container was talking to him.

Brand experts have said the revelations could dash Meghan’s political hopes amid speculation she might have ambitions for elected office.

Nick Ede told MailOnline: ‘The revelations in Spare’s new book will have a direct effect on Meghan’s lofty ambitions to run for office.

“With her husband’s candid admissions of drug use, lurid stories about her loss of virginity, and most importantly, her admission to killing 25 people while on active duty, this could have dire consequences for her. her and her ambitions.

“We know that when someone has political ambitions, they are constantly under the microscope not only by the media but also by political opponents.”

It was claimed last week that Spare has become the best-selling nonfiction book since records began in 1998.

A source close to the couple said Meghan was “more cautious” about the extremely personal memories than the prince, adding that it might have raised “mild concerns”.

The Duke of Sussex’s autobiography has sold 750,000 copies in all formats (print, audio and eBook) in the UK since its publication on January 10.

The Duke of Sussex’s autobiography has sold 750,000 copies in all formats (print, audio and e-book) in the UK since its publication on January 10.

This makes it the best-selling memoir in its first week of publication, according to publisher Transworld, the British division of Penguin Random House.

Official figures from Nielsen BookData showed that the book, which was written by notorious ghostwriter JR Moehringer, sold 467,183 copies in print in its first week alone.

Data released by Nielsen shows that the book has broken the previous record of 210,506 set by the first Pinch Of Nom cookbook, written by Kay Allinson, in 2019.

In an American broadcast promoting the play, Harry called the Duchess of Cornwall a “villain” and “dangerous”, accusing her of rehabilitating her image at the expense of his.

As the duke continued a series of high-profile promotional interviews, he said he would “like nothing more” for his sons to have relationships with the royal family.

His comments about his son and daughter came despite criticism he has leveled at his brother William, father Charles and stepmother Camilla.

He also described his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, as his “guardian angel” and said that she is with him “all the time”.