Palace insiders have slammed the “one-sided” book chronicling Prince Harry and Meghan’s falling-out with the Royal Family – warning that the wounds it inflicts will never fully heal.
Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family was published yesterday with explosive claims about their decision to quit their royal roles for a new life with son Archie in the US.
It includes the claim Meghan got SAS training after a white powder feared to be anthrax was sent to Kensington Palace.
Well-placed sources believe the Duke and Duchess of Sussex sanctioned the biography, billed as the “truth” behind the parting of ways.
Authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand say they did not interview the couple but spoke to “more than 100 sources, with access to the couple’s inner circle… everything corroborated with at least two sources”.
But a Palace insider said: “One may indeed wonder who those two sources are. It’s fair to say there is a great deal of scepticism over the involvement of the book’s two primary subjects.
“It’s hard to imagine a world where this
won’t do lasting damage to many of the personal relationships explored in this very one-sided account.”
However, asked if Harry and Meghan cooperated on the book, royal reporter Scobie told ITV’s Lorraine show yesterday: “That’s really not
the case.”
Here we explore some of the claims that have emerged in the book.
