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Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family
by Omid Scobie, Carolyn Durand
This book is one of almost 3 dozen summer reading options for the students in the high school where I work. I brought home a copy to read because I figured it would be dishy beach reading, and it is.
It’s amazing to me the anger and vitriol that is evident in the reviews here on Goodreads. Get a life, people. The choices the Sussexes have made have nothing to do with you; just let them be! The authors of the book make it clear at the outset that they had access to Harry and Meghan. If you went into this thinking that it was going to be an unbiased book, that’s on you. It is clearly an inside job - just like Andrew Morton’s book about Princess Diana was an inside job, and is a similarly easy read.
The true villain in the story is the British press (though Kate Middleton comes across as being absolutely no fun). The dysfunctional relationship between the British tabloids and the monarchy is explained very well in this book and it is no wonder that Harry and Megan now live in Montecito. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be criticized relentlessly in tabloids and not be able to stick up for yourself. Not only that, the same family that actively maintains the dysfunctional relationship with the press - your family! - doesn’t stick up for you either. It really is madness and as previously illustrated in the Morton book, “it’s all just a little bit of history repeating…”
This is a 2 to 3 star book, but I gave it 4 stars to counteract the trolls, many of whom clearly joined Goodreads to give bad reviews.
It’s amazing to me the anger and vitriol that is evident in the reviews here on Goodreads. Get a life, people. The choices the Sussexes have made have nothing to do with you; just let them be! The authors of the book make it clear at the outset that they had access to Harry and Meghan. If you went into this thinking that it was going to be an unbiased book, that’s on you. It is clearly an inside job - just like Andrew Morton’s book about Princess Diana was an inside job, and is a similarly easy read.
The true villain in the story is the British press (though Kate Middleton comes across as being absolutely no fun). The dysfunctional relationship between the British tabloids and the monarchy is explained very well in this book and it is no wonder that Harry and Megan now live in Montecito. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be criticized relentlessly in tabloids and not be able to stick up for yourself. Not only that, the same family that actively maintains the dysfunctional relationship with the press - your family! - doesn’t stick up for you either. It really is madness and as previously illustrated in the Morton book, “it’s all just a little bit of history repeating…”
This is a 2 to 3 star book, but I gave it 4 stars to counteract the trolls, many of whom clearly joined Goodreads to give bad reviews.