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A review by sharpsusan
Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by Omid Scobie, Carolyn Durand
3.0
I'm not a monarchist. I think the whole institution is garbage. If I were a Brit I'd want the whole institution demolished. Yet I love The Crown and The King's Speech and the sort of glamorous, but duty-soaked escapism that type of royal story telling offers. Also, I'm not a Brit...I'm an American stuck inside during a pandemic looking for a distraction.
Finding Freedom offers the exact kind of glamorous adventure I was hoping for when I checked this out from the library. It read like a season of The Crown unfolding in real time. I crushed it, chugged it, inhaled it.
My opinion of the monarchy is even lower than it was than when I started the book. So is my opinion of the British press. But I didn't start with high opinions of either entity. Weirdly, my opinion of Harry and Meghan is also a wee bit lower having finished the book, despite the authors' clear agenda of propping then up. All the royals just seem so butthurt and dysfunctional all the time, The Sussexes included.
I'm sad The Crown will end before these events can be covered!
Finding Freedom offers the exact kind of glamorous adventure I was hoping for when I checked this out from the library. It read like a season of The Crown unfolding in real time. I crushed it, chugged it, inhaled it.
My opinion of the monarchy is even lower than it was than when I started the book. So is my opinion of the British press. But I didn't start with high opinions of either entity. Weirdly, my opinion of Harry and Meghan is also a wee bit lower having finished the book, despite the authors' clear agenda of propping then up. All the royals just seem so butthurt and dysfunctional all the time, The Sussexes included.
I'm sad The Crown will end before these events can be covered!