In the explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey, Harry and Meghan did not skimp on the revelations, addressing untenable media pressure, racism and the lack of support from the royal family to justify their withdrawal from the monarchy.
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From confession to confession, Prince Harry spoke of his mother Diana's trouble with the British Monarchy.
A memory that has brought to light the book
Diana: Her True Story - In Her Own Words (Diana's true story,
in French
),
the controversial biography, released in 1992, the princess died tragically in 1997. According to the site
Rolling Stone
magazine
, sales of this book rose to the top 10 Amazon UK sales this week.
During the interview, broadcast last Sunday evening in the United States and Monday in France and Great Britain, Diana's name appeared when Harry raised the question of his financial situation, with Buckingham Palace having cut him off in 2020. .
The Duke of Sussex has revealed that with the money inherited from the late Princess, he was able to support his family.
Without hesitating in passing to establish a parallel between her own difficulties (and that of his wife, Meghan Markle) and the tragic fate of her mother:
"I can not imagine what it was for her to go through all this alone for all these years, because it's been incredibly hard on both of us - but at least we could count on each other.
"
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The biography of the one nicknamed the "Princess of Hearts", written by journalist Andrew Morton, is the result of several face-to-face interviews with Lady Di.
Harry's mother delivered there in particular his fights, his unhappy marriage to the Prince of Wales, his discomfort, his suicide attempts as well as his lack of support from the royal family.
"Many who knew the real Diana really believed that life couldn't be worse for her"
Andrew Morton
When Meghan told millions of viewers that she had contemplated suicide suffering from harassment by the British media and lack of support from the monarchy, her husband expressed fears that history would repeat itself.
“A lot of those who knew the real Diana really believed that life couldn't be worse for her
,” wrote Andrew Morton.
Yet one of the encouraging aspects of the story was how Diana struggled, with mixed success, to come to terms with her life, to get her destiny back into her own hands.
“It was a process that the princess continued until the very end.
"
Since its publication, the journalist's book has been at the top of the bestsellers.
According to several sources, it would have brought him nearly two million euros, having sold more than seven million copies in more than 80 countries ...
