Meghan Markle’s debut as Harry’s girlfriend in September 2017 – holding hands with the young royal while watching the wheelchair tennis at the Toronto Invictus Games – was not the casual appearance it seemed to be, but was in fact the end result of a highly organised, choreographed operation.
The timing of their walk in, her seating at prior events at the Games, and even her clothes – the Misha Nonoo designed “husband shirt” (a cheeky nod to their secret): it all had to hit the right note.
Meghan’s mother Doria’s presence at an event later during the Games was a further signal Harry wanted to make clear that Meghan was The One.
The details behind Meghan’s debut are included in the new book Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family, which goes on sale on Wednesday.
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While the book was not officially authorised by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand had unprecedented access to more than 100 sources for their account – and Scobie at least was on good enough terms with the royal couple to be at one point the recipient of a nickname (from Harry) and a hug (from Meghan).
While Harry and Meghan may have landed the optics of their debut perfectly, the future Duchess’s troubles with the royal family’s aides began very soon afterwards, the book reveals.
The Suits star was chastised by a Kensington Palace official, who rang her in Toronto to criticise her for wearing a $300 Maya Brenner necklace featuring the initials ‘M’ and ‘H’.
Snapped wearing the love trinket while running errands, Meghan “was advised that wearing such a necklace only served to encourage the photographers to keep pursuing such images and new headlines”.
Disputes with the royal aides are a recurring theme of the book.
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Prior to the wedding, Harry was enraged by the Queen’s personal dresser, who repeatedly ignored his request for a tiara fitting for Meghan, prompting him to take the matter up with Her Majesty herself.
And later, as the couple first communicate their intention to step back from royal duties in an email to the Queen and Prince Charles, details of the private message are leaked to the press, and in a meeting to make the arrangements, one royal aide cattily predicts Meghan will launch a line of beauty products. Another is quoted as saying the couple did not communicate their future plans in a “private, dignified way”.
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In one of the book’s more intriguing sections, it is revealed that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex sacked baby Archie’s night nurse halfway into the employee’s second shift for being “unprofessional and irresponsible”.
Although no details about the nurse’s behaviour are provided, the experience reportedly made the new parents so jumpy that “neither found themselves comfortable sleeping through the night without going to check on Archie regularly”, making a replacement night nurse redundant. Although this second nurse does a “fine job”, they are let go after just a few weeks.
While the book is at pains to dispel reports that Meghan was demanding of staff, the briskly mentioned episode does make the reader wonder how a presumably well-vetted professional could let the couple down so dramatically.
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Details of the couple being snubbed by William and Kate during their last engagement as official royals are so intimate they may have come straight from Harry and Meghan themselves. After being left out of the official procession for the church service on Commonwealth Day, the Sussexes reportedly greet the Cambridges with smiles, who show “little response,” with William offering just a curt nodding “Harry”, and Kate “barely acknowledging” Meghan. The Cambridges then turn to chat freely with Prince Edward and Sophie, while Harry and Meghan sit there ignored.
The sections of the book regarding the couple’s decision to break away from the family offers little that has not already been reported, or at least surmised by the press. It is revealed that Harry’s greatest sorrow is losing his military honours, while at a private lunch between him and the Queen the tantalising suggestion of a return to the family fold is floated. “ (T)hey can come back whenever they want, when they’re ready,” the book quotes an unnamed source as saying.
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At times the authors seem determined to present Harry and Meghan in the best possible light. The cringe-making footage of Harry spruiking Meghan’s voiceover credentials to then Disney CEO Bob Iger at the London premiere of The Lion King is batted away with the rather confusing explanation that Meghan had already signed on for voiceover work on a Disney project.
Reporting on Meghan’s baby shower in New York organised by Serena Williams, the authors reveal attendees did a flower arranging class and dined on a menu prepared by a Michelin-star chef, while a harpist “played in the background”. In these parts of the book, it is the little details that tell the reader all they need to know.
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