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Post by Admin on Oct 5, 2020 5:58:41 GMT
An explosive new biography today lays bare the depth of the Royal Family’s anger and frustration at Harry and Meghan’s decision to quit.  Written by respected royal biographer Robert Lacey, Battle of Brothers forensically charts the catastrophic breakdown of Prince William’s once rock-solid relationship with Harry – and reveals how the acrimonious fallout has infiltrated every aspect of royal life. The book, which is serialised from today in the Daily Mail, claims the future king was so infuriated by Harry’s behaviour that when the Queen called them together for January’s ‘Sandringham Summit’, he refused to have lunch with his brother beforehand. Instead, Harry dined with their grandmother alone.  The book also alleges: The Royal Family were ‘hopping mad’ over Harry and Meghan’s trademarking of Sussex Royal products and services, which was regarded as the ‘commercialising of the crown’; The Queen, Prince Charles and Prince William were not consulted over the multiple legal actions against the media announced by Harry and Meghan on their Africa tour a year ago, which they believe have affected the image of the monarchy; A ‘powerful constituency’ inside Buckingham Palace, headed by the Queen’s right-hand man, her private secretary Sir Edward Young, believed Meghan’s interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby during their tour of Africa last year – in which she bemoaned her life – showed a ‘bizarre tone-deafness’ and was ‘miserably self-indulgent’; Harry saw a charming official picture of his nephew Prince George with William, Charles and the Queen, released by Buckingham Palace in early 2020, as a signal from his brother and the rest of the family about his place in the order of succession; Dealing with Harry and Meghan over ‘Megxit’ was like negotiating with ‘a hard-nosed Hollywood lawyer’, according to one senior palace source. ‘The Sussexes wanted guarantees on every single point as if it were a contractual negotiation,’ they said.  Mr Lacey has previously written well-received biographies of the Queen, Sir Walter Raleigh and modelling entrepreneur Eileen Ford. He is also known for consulting on Netflix’s hit royal series The Crown. His new book – for which he spent months speaking to royal insiders, he says – will be seen as an antidote to Finding Freedom, the detailed but ultimately slavishly flattering biography of Harry and Meghan that was published earlier this summer. |
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Post by Admin on Oct 6, 2020 19:22:29 GMT
Prince William angered his brother Prince Harry when he called upon their uncle Charles Spencer to intervene at the height of their rift. William, 38, was met by a “bitter explosion” from Harry, 36, after involving their late mother’s brother, according to a new biography.  William believed Harry was moving too fast in the early days of his relationship with Meghan Markle and had asked his brother to take things more slowly. According to an excerpt from Battle of Brothers: William & Harry – The Inside Story of a Family in Tumult in the Daily Mail on Monday, veteran historian Robert Lacey writes that Harry reacted to the initial concern with “a brusque and offended pushback. Then, the older prince turned to his uncle Charles Spencer for help." “From time to time Diana's younger brother had played something of an honorary godfather to both boys in the years since the death of their mother, and their uncle agreed with William to see what he could do,” Lacey continues. “The result of the Spencer intervention was an even more bitter explosion. Once again Harry refused to slow down.” Harry “didn't blame his uncle. He understood why Diana's brother should want to help. Yet he was furious with his elder brother for dragging other family members into the row,” the excerpt says. And the “anger and mistrust - that distance - has lasted to the present day.” Lacey puts the request into perspective in his book, explaining how William had taken almost a decade to commit to wife Kate Middleton “for the sake of the monarchy. He had been auditioning her for a job all those years," he writes. While Harry “could not help but wonder whether Wills was really concerned about his personal happiness - or whether he was, once again and as per usual, thinking about the make-up and fortunes of 'the Firm' whose boss he would become one day?” Lacey continues.  Throughout his work on the project, Lacey said he has been “astonished” by some of what he has uncovered. “I have been astonished and sometimes moved to tears by the fresh details and insights I have discovered in researching this story of family conflict. It has been both enthralling and painful to trace this drama through the memories of close witnesses and some of the people most intimately involved,” he said in a press release. Lacey, who is a historical consultant for Netflix's The Crown as well as the author of Majesty, a 1977 study of Queen Elizabeth, went on to explain that the book will also give readers an inside look at the British monarchy. “These two brothers — once inseparable and now separated by much more than mere distance — have been acting out the contradictions that go back into their childhoods and even before that: into their parents’ ill-fated marriage,” he continued. "We have seen conflicts between heir and spare in every recent generation of the royal family — but nothing so profound as this.” |
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Post by Admin on Oct 7, 2020 20:30:57 GMT
As a young boy, the truth of Prince William’s reaction towards Princess Diana’s relationship with James Hewitt was always wrapped in secrecy, however, a recent report has come forward to unearth those claims and provide a raw look into the young Prince’s feelings. 'Squidgygate' as the princess was known in the royal palace had a rather averse reaction to an unearthed explicit phone exchange between Prince Charles and Camilla, however, when she turned her attention towards another man, namely James Hewitt, it was Prince William’s turn to throw the biggest royal tantrum ever seen.  From 1994, all the way up to 1995, 13-year-old William witnessed his parent’s public battle, in all its raw realities. After bottling up his feelings regarding his father turning towards mistress Camilla, the young teenager was sent over the edge when his mother did the same and publically announced details of her affair with James Hewitt. Per a report by the Daily Mail, when Prince William’s housemaster returned to his personal study, the prince was slumping down on his sofa, visibly upset. It was only two days later however that the prince truly ‘blew up’ and told his mother that he is just “so angry with her.” Sources reveal, “All hell broke loose. He was furious . . . that she had spoken badly of his father, that she had mentioned Hewitt . . . He started shouting and crying and, when she tried to put her arms around him, he shoved her away.” By the next day, the young royal extended an olive branch and apologized to his mother, however, the damage was still done none the less. “'What have I done?'” Diana kept asking her closest aids. "'What have I done to my children?'" |
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Post by Admin on Oct 20, 2020 19:39:21 GMT
Royal historian Robert Lacey's extremely extra book BATTLE OF BROTHERS is truly the gift that keeps on giving for people thirsty for tea—and the latest revelation to emerge offers some interesting insight into Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's final royal engagement. And by that I mean a lip reader revealed what Prince William allegedly said to Kate Middleton at the event.  Before you grab popcorn, the comment is *not* to do with the Sussexes—despite reports of extreme tension between the "fab four" during the day in question. Instead, Robert Lacey revealed that William's "longest coherent sentence that TV-watching lipreaders could work out" had zero to do with his brother and everything to do with hand shaking concerns. According to reporting from Lacey's book (via The Sun), William whispered to Kate: "This whole handshaking thing is weird. We're going to have to put a load of hand gel on after this." I mean. Considering we were on the brink of a pandemic when this event took place, William's concerns over handshaking make sense! Either way, anyone who previously thought he was whispering about his brother can officially chill. |
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Post by Admin on Oct 23, 2020 7:14:22 GMT
Robert Lacey's bombshell new book, Battle of Brothers: William, Harry and the Inside Story of a Family in Tumult, continues to shed light on Prince William and Prince Harry's strained relationship and how it affected their families. In the latest report, Robert makes it abundantly clear that William reportedly thought he had a say in how Harry and Meghan Markle announced the birth of their son. On May 6, 2019, Meghan and Harry welcomed Archie at 5:26 a.m., but it wasn't until they and Doria Ragland were already headed back home—eight hours later—that the palace and royal family announced Meghan went into labor.  According to Robert, Meghan and Harry's desire to delay the news to ensure a safe and private return home was simply too much for William to understand. The author added that William "did not think too highly of Harry and Meghan’s 'prima donna' maneuvers to conceal the birth of their son." And, it seems William definitely didn't take into consideration that he doesn't know what it's like to be a pregnant woman and should mind his own business instead of worrying about Meghan's delivery plan and decision to keep that private. Apparently, William was so upset by their expectation of privacy that he and Kate Middleton waited "a full eight days" before they finally visited the Sussexs and met Archie. And when they did show up, they didn't even bring along Archie's cousins, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis. It was a shocking contrast to how "the Queen, Prince Philip, [Prince] Charles and Camilla [Parker Bowles] all turned up within hours to coo over the baby." |
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