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I read this after sitelinkMEGHAN: A HOLLYWOOD PRINCESS.
I actually recommend you do that, too, because AHP is a biography of Markle before her life with Harry, and this book basically takes over where the other book left off.
They are both also written from the same sympathetic perspective, and the details sync up nicely,
I bought this book because of all the negative reviews for it on Goodreads or Amazon from people who seemed to be antiMeghan.
Honestly, the hate this woman gets astounds me especially compared to the other royals, If you think it's due to anything but racism and classism, I suggest you check out sitelinkthis BuzzFeed article by Ellie Hall comparing the coverage that Meghan gets compared to Kate from the same media outlets.
If you ask me, I'd say that Markle is guilty of nothing but "princessing while Black, "
Having read FINDING FREEDOM, I will say that it reads like a puff piece, but it's an engaging one, and a harmless one, IMO.
If you hate Markle, it probably won't change your mind, but if you're neutral or positive, it's a pretty fascinating read, I liked
reading about Markle's interactions with her famous friends including the daughter of PM Mulroney, Serena Williams, and Eddie Redmayne, her passion for crueltyfree and local goods one that I share, and her notsofairytale romance with the prince.
I kept annoying my family with facts I thought were interesting,
I respected Markle before reading this and I still do, now, I can't imagine the pressure of being in the public eye the way she does and I'm glad that she and Harry were able to do what they needed to do for the sake of their respective mental healths and those of their children.
to,UPDATE: I finally read the book, Yes, it is praising them, But I actually think they are also criticized on occasion, If there wasnt a full on smear hate racist campaing in the brit tabloids, then I wouldve said it is a bit much.
But as it is, with them still vilified and the duke and duchess of Lazy still touted as “perfect”, this book is a pertinent defence.
It actually makes me happy that they escaped such a toxic environment, Looking forward to what they do, because its heaps more interesting than what what the rest dont, And dont me until “top CEO” lazy waity actually does back to back work, and above all, prince Pedo deems it appropriate to renonunce his titles.
So sick of racist brits who have no clue about their history, their empire built on enslaved persons backs, And of course, what is Brexit if not racism/xenophobia at its best Go in a corner please and eat an avocado,
Cant wait for this one! While Im betting there wont be spilled tea, at least it may provide some insight into how they were racist bullied out of their country.
Its crap, but what can one expect from a book about Meghan Markle and Just call me Harry, Without this book, gossip would have mellowed down and they would have been able to come and go as they please, as they intended, while maintaining a somewhat healthy relationship with their families and countries.
I can only imagine the welcome they'll receive now,
This book is written in the style of a saint in the making, a "leftist saint, " With the amount of times this book mentions Obama, you'd think he was running again, I understand the authors' need to defend Meghan after some negative press but the authors of this book are very narrow minded and only have that one goal in mind throughout the whole book.
Words to describe this book gossipy, fashion oriented, yoga, name dropping, teacher's pet, sensitive emotions, . . I can only imagine some of the guys rolling their eyes while reading this book, . . It's like a Cosmopolitan magazine article,
Beginning isn't that bad, mostly her accolades, then boom the working class Londoners are covert racists, mad shade is thrown at William and Kate, and obvious praise and adoration to the Queen and Charles.
Most people can and will see through this debacle,
This book certainly doesn't help HampM, only helps those who profit off it, the authors,
The royal establishment is set in their rules, traditions, and ways, No one can change that, not even any of the senior royals, I know there are some snubs who wish to maintain the status quo forevermore and keep everyone in their place, Even Kate had to deal with those but she rose above it, I also know what it's like to have to ice some family out, I wanted to see Meg and Harry succeed despite their family drama, Meghan obviously didn't know what she was getting into, although she did know who the princes were come on, don't lie, She knew she'd have power and influence but had a different idea entirely of what royals can and cannot do with that,
Royals are there for perpetual charity, to listen to the people, to put others before themselves, and to be the head and/or members of the Church of England, not to promote political agendas and/or organizations on tax payer's money or with a title or to profit as business people.
That's royal life, nothing new here,
Meg and Harry have made some mistakes as we all have like inviting Rick Hoffman to their wedding, who was rolling his eyes the whole time through at Westminster Abbey, like being vocal about a president they don't like as a royal and otherwise, like promoting disgusting people like Ellen.
See how low Ellen has fallen How many accusers are saying she's a monster, the writers mention Ellen three times in this book, . . and her new "wife. " Ellen was even in Rising Phoenix which harry was part of, This is why royals aren't public about their lives, I liked Meghan a lot before I knew too much about her, Hasn't it gone through their minds that perhaps the same happened in London
Meg and Harry can and could have learned from their mistakes, shrugged off the silly media, the prejudice, let bygones be bygones, and moved forward in the UK.
Obviously, they don't want to conform to the royal lifestyle, they have different plans in life, Americans have a different form of life, where you can be great despite your family or heritage, where people don't have a "place", where you're afforded more freedoms.
We'll see how it goes, not so great so far the social media bad comments thing censuring the people, campaigning with the dems.
. . BTW, I don't think Meg and Harry are "bad," I just don't agree with their every move, My advice, don't get into the Hollywood scene, marriages don't last in that cesspool, It's a book about the worlds greatest hypocrites, INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF THE TOPBESTSELLING ROYAL BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME
When news of the budding romance between a beloved English prince and an American actress broke, it captured the worlds attention and sparked an international media frenzy.
But while the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have continued to make headlines from their engagement, wedding, and birth of their son Archie to their unprecedented decision to step back from their royal lives few know the true story of Harry and Meghan.
For the very first time, FINDING FREEDOM goes beyond the headlines to reveal unknown details of Harry and Meghans life together, dispelling the many rumours and misconceptions that plague the couple on both sides of the pond.
As members of the select group of reporters that cover the British Royal Family and their engagements, Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand have witnessed the young couples lives as few outsiders can.
With unique access and written with the participation of those closest to the couple, FINDING FREEDOM is an honest, upclose, and disarming portrait of a confident, influential, and forwardthinking couple who are unafraid to break with tradition, determined to create a new path away from the spotlight, and dedicated to building a humanitarian legacy that will make a profound difference in the world.
UpdateMarch Goodreads Support have replied and said I am allowed to rate a book twice if it is materially different.
An audio book and a hardback are considered different enough so that I can replace my rating, The ToS makes no mention of any difference being necessary, only that all editions can be reviewed and rated as many times as you want.
This is apparently going to be amended,
In February, Goodreads Support asked me to remove the rating from this book because I have rated it twice and it is 'skewing the ratings'.
I thought we were allowed to rate books we had read twice, twice Feb
Update I haven't changed my opinion of the book, but in the interests of fairness, there must have been a lot of skewed information in the media fake news about 'the letter' that was released in part by Meghan's friends to a magazine, but she sued the DailyMail for printing saying it was an invasion of privacy.
ALL the media was that the Daily Mail was in the clear, But in fact, they lost the case, So why do the media dislike Meghan so much and like the Daily Rag no one likes the Daily Rag, it just has good comments and other media that they won't print anything in her favour Feb
Update This is thend review, not the original.
Soon that was Aug.Scobie is reissuing this book with an extra chapter which naturally hasn't been collaborated on but he has palace 'sources', Why anyone in the palace would speak to this apologist for these two I don't know, They left the UK for privacy and have done nothing but trade on their royal titles to get tv interviews, Netflix, Spotify and lord knows what else million dollar deals, have a huge PR team that almost daily puts out something, like a long one about Meghan being speechless about Afghanistan.
Harry is a bit like a lamprey to a shark, if you don't know what that is, look it up!
There are some American reviewers giving this bookbecause of the racist campaign by all the media in the UK.
What campaign What racism She was so welcomed when she married Harry, She was thought to be a breath of fresh air into the stuffy stultified royals, Black, American, beautiful, divorced, lots of interesting things to shake them up.
But she was just MeAgain on the make, A sociopath who has cut out all her family, every single one except her mother, and it seems cut out all of Harry's family for Harry too.
But that's not what the Finding Freedom's about!
Why was this book written The author has called Meghan's detractors, "morons", was it to right that situation since the author is such a fan Would anyone devote a couple of years of their life to writing something like that without any other benefit Now being the mouthpiece of or ghostwriting implies a much closer connection to the subjects, Meghan and Harry.
That would make sense. But I don't think it was quite that,
Omid Scobie is "Bazaar, com's Royal Editor at Large and has covered the lives and philanthropic work of the younger members of the British Royal Family for over eight years.
" So he writes puff pieces about the royals who then give him free trips abroad to cover their work, It's all about recognition and publicity the charity, the school or the toilet manufacturer that has built a new factory bringing more employment to an area.
He saw a gap in the marketplace, an offering the fans would buy, a way to endear himself to his bosses and royals and hopefully climb the ladder of predecence of journalists with access to the Royals and their extensive foreign tours, balls, and glittering social events.
Why else That is a respectable reason, who wouldn't want to advance their career The problem is that it rebounded on him,
We see what Meghan does and Harry follows, we see the single photographer at events meaning it wasn't paparazzi, it was one she hired.
We see that she fired the PR team at Kensington Palace to steer her through Royal life and hung on to her NY and Hollywood team of PR, Accountants and even her Agent proving her intent all along was to use the royal marriage as an opportunity to advance her career and not to become a British royal.
So there is not one niche but two, Meghan's going to want someone on her side to report on her showbiz, political and socalled environmental and woke activities on this side of the pond.
Clever man. This is good business. But it's all been scuppered now Meghan is calling him a liar,
Despite the end of the book containing a note saying that Harry and Meghan were consulted, despite writing things like, 'she gave a secret smile and thought to herself' Meghan is now saying that it's fiction, fantasy, out and out lies.
He wasn' there, she didn't do it, he made it up, She lost a legal battle to keep the book and authors out of court saying it was irrelevant,
Since the book and its authors will be admitted into the court case she has brought against newspapers publishing her father's letters which he told them and for which he received no money we will see.
It is apparently all right for the 'secret' who will be identified in the court case, to leak to People Magazine, the nasty stuff that Thomas Markle is supposed to have done.
Meghan says essentially it was her copywright, no one should have published them unless it benefited her without her permission,
No one writes letters to their parents and keeps copies, They email them! The letter was written to be leaked for publication by her 'secret' her side of just how rotten her father was.
She expected retaliation, she wanted it, She said to someone or other she wanted to be the most famous person in the world and realised she would need controversy for that.
But her father couldn't affford lawyers and so went to the newspapers,
Well she's got controversy, Either she or Scomid will come out of this looking like liars or both, and I think everyone feels sorry for her father.
Other than her mother she's not even on speaking terms, let alone weddinginvite terms with a single member of her family and has managed to estrange Harry from his.
The court case is January, And Meghan won, and the Daily Mail lost which was unexpected, Meaning can you trust anything the media put out Perhaps if the information had been correct it wuold have been expected!,
Gather Finding Freedom: Harry And Meghan And The Making Of A Modern Royal Family Authored By Omid Scobie Expressed As Volume
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