Meghan Markle's fairy tale romance has been
far from idyllic.
Since becoming a royal, she has been hounded
by the press and, while she was prepared for
some of it, the situation quickly became unbearable,
as she revealed in the 2019 ITV documentary
Harry & Meghan: An African Journey.
"I never thought that this would be easy,
but I thought it would be fair, and that's
the part that's really hard to reconcile."
A few months after the documentary was released,
she and Prince Harry announced that they would
be stepping back from the royal family and
giving up their positions as senior royals.
The couple have since moved to Los Angeles
and are pursuing new projects, including a
new charitable foundation.
Meanwhile, two upcoming books claim they will
shed more light on what was really going on
before the Duke and Duchess of Sussex broke
away from the royal family.
Celebrity biographer Sean Smith promises to
reveal why Meghan was "so upset" before leaving
the royal family in Meghan: Misunderstood,
slated for publication in November.
Per Express,
Smith said,
"Last November, I watched the TV documentary
in which Meghan Markle confided it was not
enough to survive something, that was not
the point of life.
I immediately wanted to know how it had come
to this: why was the most charismatic member
of the Royal Family clearly so upset?
Meghan Misunderstood is her story, her amazing
journey."
And Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and
the Making of a Modern Royal Family, set to
be published in August, claims that it wasn't
Meghan's unhappiness that spurred the couple
to break away from the family, but Prince
Harry's.
A source told The Sun that the book will reveal
that ...
"The seeds of Megxit were sown before they
even got married.
The truth is that Harry had been deeply unhappy
for a long time.
And he and Meghan openly discussed going in
a different direction well before they got
married."
While Meghan was undoubtedly upset in the
months leading up to Megxit, the book will
provide a more nuanced view of the situation.
The source continued,
"The reality is Harry drove that decision.
The book will make that clear and explain
why it had to happen.
The truth is Harry had been unhappy for a
long, long time."
Prince Harry himself has said that he is the
one who made the decision to break away from
the royal family, although he did hint that
Meghan played a large role in that decision.
In January, he spoke of the decision at a
private charity dinner, saying,
"Once Meghan and I were married, we were excited,
we were hopeful, and we were here to serve.
For these reasons, it brings me great sadness
that it has come to this.
The decision that I have made for my wife
and I to step back, is not one I made lightly.
It was so many months of talks after so many
years of challenges.
And I know I haven't always gotten it right,
but as far as this goes, there really was
no other option."
A close friend of his had also confirmed that
Prince Harry had long wanted to distance himself
from the royal family, and revealed that this
led to Megxit.
Professional polo player and model Nacho Figueras
said in the ABC special Royal Divide: Harry,
Meghan and the Crown,
"[Harry] has suffered a lot from all of the
things that have happened to him.
He wants to live a normal life, as normal
as his life is going to be, right?
Because when you have a thousand paparazzi
outside your house in Canada waiting to get
one picture of your son, that's not very normal."
One of the factors that may have driven the
Duke and Duchess to break away from the royal
family could be the double standard used by
the press in their treatment of Meghan.
In January 2014, for example, the Daily Mail
applauded Prince William and Kate Middleton
for setting up their own companies.
The outlet wrote that this would enable the
couple to, quote, "bring out, should they
ever choose to, myriad items of officially-endorsed
merchandise from tea towels to coffee cups."
Six years later, however, when Harry and Meghan
made a similar move, they were criticized
by the same outlet.
The couple moved to trademark the Sussex Royal
brand, which inspired a very different tone
from the Daily Mail, who called it, quote,
"A right royal cash in!"
The media's ongoing harsh treatment of Meghan
so upset the couple that they eventually sued
the Mail on Sunday for unlawfully breaching
her privacy.
"My British friends said to me, I'm sure he's
great but you shouldn't do it because the
British tabloids will destroy your life."
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