“Personally I think the royal family should write a huge check,” Brown said, “and say, ‘here Harry, here’s a check for your security - maybe you could just sort of postpone (the book) indefinitely’.“I’m writing this not as the prince I was born but as the man I have become. When it was suggested to Brown that Harry must be anxious to publish the book in order to collect his $20 million, she said that the royals should consider buying his silence. I think it’s even possible it could have been healed after the Oprah interview, although it was a very explosive and hurtful interview as far as (the royals) were concerned,” she continued.īrown said she was told that Harry’s book would be even “more harsh” because Harry is “anxious to quote, ‘tell his truth.'” “It’s got a lot of healing to do before there’s any relationship now. It also was expected that a new round of criticism from Harry could be especially damaging to his relationship with Charles and with his brother, Prince William, Brown and other royal observers have said. Harry’s relationship with William is “pretty much non-existent,” Brown said. “Just at a point where the monarchy’s very fragile with the queen on a glide path to the end of her life.
The royal family “have (the book) now hanging over them like the sword of Damocles, that come the fall, they’re gonna get another boatload of flack from inside their own family,” Brown said. In their explosive 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Harry and Meghan famously accused an unnamed family member of making racist comments about their unborn first child.īrown said that Harry’s book was coming at a precarious time for the royal family, with the beloved queen’s increasing frailty offering a reminder that power will eventually transition to Harry’s father, Prince Charles. The family was worried Harry might “name names” and identify the so-called “royal racist,” according to Brown, who recently published her book, “The Palace Papers,” detailing the public and private triumphs, and challenges faced by modern members of the British royal family. Harry’s announcement that he was going to publish the book that was expected this fall, “was just a huge issue for the whole family,” author Tina Brown said in an interview with the Washington Post. If nothing else, the delay would would allow Harry to incorporate an account of those celebrations in his book, Nikkhah added. to participate in some of those celebrations, the first time the Sussexes have been reunited with the royal family for more than two years. Harry and Meghan are expected to travel to the U.K.
Times royal editor Royah Nikkhah said that the delay is no doubt is “a relief to the royal family and courtiers.” Among other things, it means that the book won’t overshadow celebrations for Harry’s 96-year-old grandmother and her 70 years of service on the throne. The Page Six report on Harry and Meghan’s “at-home” Netflix show offered another possible reason for the book’s delay: The Sussexes didn’t want the Netflix show to air until 2023, and the streaming giant wants it to air around the same time that Harry’s memoir is published. There could be questions over whether Harry can get the book done, although it’s been reported that he was collaborating with an American ghostwriter, JR Moehringer, to do the actual work. A spokesperson for Harry also offered a similar response, while yet another source told the Times that there was “some uncertainty” over the book’s publication date. With Harry’s memoir, Penguin Random House announced its publication with much fanfare in 2021, saying the book would be “an inspiring, courageous and uplifting human story” with Harry writing “not as the prince I was born but as the man I have become.” Penguin Random House said publication was “tentatively scheduled for late 2022.” Page Six reported that Harry had sold his memoir for a $20 million advance and would donate the proceeds to charity.Ī spokesperson for the publisher told the Times that the memoir did not yet have a publication date, and would not confirm whether the book would still appear this year as planned.
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