The expectation generated by the release of the book on the relationship between Prince Henry of England and Meghan Markle is only comparable to the security measures that the US publisher in charge of its publication has taken to prevent it from being fully leaked before its launch in the United States. United on Tuesday, August 11.
The authors of Finding freedom , which in Spain goes on sale this Wednesday with the title Meghan and Harry. In freedom , edited by HarperCollins Ibérica, they affirm that they have not had the collaboration of the Dukes of Sussex and that with this book they have only tried to “make a faithful portrait of Meghan and Enrique, a couple who have often been portrayed inaccurately and that he has been the victim of spurious interests ”.
The details provided in their story by Omid Scobie and Carloyn Durand, members of the group of correspondents experts on British royalty, are meticulous and if they have not had the direct collaboration of their protagonists, at least that of people very close to their environment who they certainly have not spoken at their own risk. Perhaps for this reason, the British tabloids claim that it is the reckoning of the Dukes of Sussex. A couple who lived the closest thing to a honeymoon of overwhelming popularity when they announced their commitment to face, almost immediately, furious criticism not exempt from a racist and classist background that is not unrelated to the African-American origin of Meghan Markle and her previous I work as an actress.
Enrique is portrayed in the book as a man historically anxious to lead a normal life, clinging to utopian ideals and who likes to get close to people without the tinsel and commotion that his aristocratic origin causes. A child who suffered the loss of his mother, Princess Diana, and who was battered by pain that surfaced years later in the form of aggression and anxiety. To the point of stating that after his time in the Army he was "very close to an absolute collapse, when pressure, lies and misrepresentations of all kinds come to you from all sides."
His brother, Prince William, was his main support: "The only person in the world with whom I can really talk about anything," came to say the Duke of Sussex. Until Meghan showed up. In her Prince Henry found authenticity, a self-confident person with whom he shared basic values that made him excited from the first night they met for a blind date in London.
The privacy and jokes that Markle shared on his Instagram wall and that only he understood, were blown up just six months after their romantic relationship began, when they were discovered and everything changed suddenly. He had already told her that his life was "surreal" and although she was used to acting in front of the cameras, she faced "a role without breaks", facing the relatively normal life of an actress who succeeded with the series Suits.
The romanticism of the prince, his details, his spontaneity with her were enough to believe that with him he would overcome all problems. She was willing to learn and excited to undertake a job of greater depth than acting, although ceasing to be an actress was "terrifying" at first.
The first problems came with the racist comments in the tabloids and the frontal confrontation that they provoked in Prince Henry, who had already seen the consequences on his own mother. The British royal family's warm welcome to Meghan, especially from the cautious Elizabeth II and Prince Charles, also found cracks in the protective counsel that her brother William and one of her childhood close friends, Skippy, insisted on. give Enrique. His indications that he take all the time he needed to "meet that girl" fell like a jug of water on the enamored prince and only managed to cool their relationships to the point that the book states that for months they hardly spoke. .
On the part of Meghan Markle's family, the statements and performances of her brothers, Samantha and Thomas, with whom she had almost no contact and who she had not invited to her first wedding with producer Trevor Engelson, did not help either. Nor those of her father, Thomas Markle. All of them demanded their share of leadership with obvious mistakes and poorly concealed economic interests.
The fact is that the attacks began for everything and nothing: protocol errors, supposed haughtiness, too much proximity. The excited Meghan could not find respite despite the fact that the British redoubled their cheers on the visits she made with her fiancé. The book details that the future Duchess of Sussex found help in her "faith in God, in her family and in those closest to her."
During her pregnancy, the media gave her a break. Then the attacks returned and the couple felt that the royal house was not supporting them enough to deny the hoaxes, as it did with other members of the family. Another major problem the Duke and Duchess of Sussex encountered, according to the biography, was not being able to speak for themselves and having to delegate to what the publication describes as the "slow and cumbersome machinery of the monarchical institution." The Instagram account @SussexRoyal was a certain liberation for Meghan, who had had a hard time getting used to not being able to address the public directly. She became the main source of communication for the couple and in just 24 hours accumulated 2.1 million followers.
They were happy to be able to control their speech, but Enrique, eager to do many things, became frustrated because they were relegated to the background. They respected hierarchies, but everything was still slow and ceremonious for them. Friends of the couple referred to the old guard of the royal house staff as "the vipers," and they described the Sussex team as "the third squeaky wheel" of the palace, as the biography written by Omid Scobie states. and Carloyn Durand.
They decided to spend the second half of November and all of December in Canada, tired and exhausted by the media harassment and the lack of support from the royal family and there, isolated and focused on their family life, they had time to reflect. Before leaving the United Kingdom the biography assures that Enrique had spoken several times with his father and his grandmother: they wanted to find a space within the monarchy in which they could feel comfortable. But it was in Canada where they understood that they could not return to the previous thing, and that disengaging was the only possible way out.
Upon his return to the United Kingdom, The Sun leaked that they planned to live in Canada, and his team did not doubt that the information came from within the palace. The royal house denied it and returned the ball to them, stating that they were upset at forcing the decision by making the matter public. For Enrique his "little family" was above and he was more confronted than ever with the one he had known since he was born. The gestures told him that they had been relegated, and not even the words of his father assuring that he and Meghan were part of the future of the royal family, served to convince him. The option of partially fulfilling his official duties was untenable. The Megxit had materialized.
At the farewell, the biography assures that Meghan Markle told a friend: “I have given up my whole life for this family. She was willing to do whatever it took. And here we are. It is very sad". Many questions remain, but the first was revealed just this Tuesday. Without titles, released, Meghan Markle will vote in the next US elections.