Prince Harry booked a one-way ticket to the UK for Prince Philip’s funeral in hopes of resolving the alleged cracks with his family, biographer Omid Scobie said in the new chapter of Finding Freedom.
The new excerpt from the book, which will be published in a new chapter that chronicles the life of the Sussex in recent months, states that the 36-year-old Duke of Sussex booked a one-way ticket because he did not know how the trip would go. will carry out “and therefore planned to return later.
Published in PEOPLE magazine, the excerpt, co-written by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, continues: “There was a feeling that this trip could also present the opportunity to meet and talk without the filter of staff as interviews, a number of whom the Sussex had come to discover were behind many of the media leaks they treated as royal workers.
He also claims that the exchange between Prince William and Harry that took place outside St George’s Chapel after the funeral was his first face-to-face conversation in 15 months.
According to an updated book, Prince Harry booked a one-way ticket to the UK for Prince Philip’s funeral in hopes he could get together and talk to his family.
Prince Charles, Prince Andrew, Princess Anne, Prince William, Peter Phillips, Prince Edward, Prince Harry and Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence during the funeral of Prince Philip on April 17, 2021 in Windsor
Published in PEOPLE magazine, the excerpt, co-written by Omid Scobie (pictured) and Carolyn Durand, says: “There was a feeling that this trip could also present the opportunity to meet and talk without the staff filter. as interviews.
The book goes on to state that they continued to hold “at least two more conversations” during their return journey, while the king also allegedly spoke with his father Prince Charles, but his problems remained “unresolved”.
The biography, which was a brilliant portrait of Scobie’s Sussex and co-author Carolyn Durand, first published in August 2020, concludes that the trip “broke the ice” and that it brings her to an approach she is now “slightly open.”
It comes after Finding Freedom author Omid Scobie claimed that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle found it harder than they had ever imagined to leave their royal roles, but eventually made the decision to cut all ties. with the monarchy for fear that they would not. They cannot carry out their own “financial efforts and business decisions.”
He claimed that Prince Harry and Meghan initially tried to “find a way to engage” with the royal family that would have allowed them to be “half in, half out” in terms of their roles.
However, Scobie told People that the couple made the “tough” decision to leave the royal family because they knew that “there would always have been problems related to the financial efforts and business decisions they made” if they had kept any. link with the monarchy.
In the months since Harry and Meghan moved away from their royal roles, the couple has made profits on streaming and podcasts with Netflix and Spotify, which are estimated to be worth more than $ 100 million.
The Duke has also landed a job as a “head of impact” at a $ 1.73 billion mental health training start-up, a role that will see him weigh heavily on product strategy and contributions. benefits of the company.
Finding Freedom author Omid Scobie has claimed that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle chose to sever all ties with the royal family out of concern over the exploration of their “financial efforts”.
Had they maintained their real role, the couple, who now live in a $ 14 million mansion in Montecito with their son Archie and daughter Lilibet, would not have been allowed to run any commercial business with the goal of making money.
Members of the monarchy are paid their actual real work through a taxpayer-funded grant and are therefore prohibited from earning additional income through other jobs.
According to Scobie, this was the main reason for Harry and Meghan’s decision to leave the royal family, rather than trying to reach a “compromise” that would have seen them balance their official duties with more business opportunities.
The royal author made the claims in the new issue of People, in which he also promotes a new version of his biography about the couple, Finding Freedom, which will be released with new details about their lives in recent months.
However, despite the financial motivations behind his decision, Scobie, who is known to have a close relationship with the Sussex and is among a small handful of media with whom he actively communicates, to say that severing ties with the monarchy was “harder than [Harry and Meghan] I would never have imagined it ‘.
Speaking to People magazine ahead of the release of the new chapter of Finding Freedom, which is due to be published on August 31, the anniversary of Princess Diana’s death, she said: “The hardest thing for them was to do these first steps of their royal functions. “
He added that the couple “tried to find a way to get involved and find half to half,” but considered that “those ties with the institution would have been still strong and there would have been constant problems over financial efforts and business decisions. that they took ‘.
Scobie further stated that this potential examination of their business would probably have pushed Harry and Meghan to leave the royal family once and for all in the long run, claiming that delaying the decision would have prevented them from reaching the “level of happiness and security”. . that they have today ‘.
Their latest quotes about Harry and Meghan come when the couple responds to claims that they have “revived their breakup” with the queen through claims made in the updated version of Finding Freedom, which they say they believe did not act on their allegations. of racism.
The new edition of the book suggests that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were “not surprised” by the perception of a lack of action for their claim that a royal king expressed “concern” for the color of his son’s skin. not born.
It implies that they made an exception to a carefully worded statement from the Queen, following her interview with Oprah Winfrey in March, in which she expressed concern about the couple but insisted that “some memories may vary”.
Scobie’s latest statements about Harry and Meghan come after the couple responded to claims in their book that they believed the queen (seen last week) did not act on her accusations of racism.
Days later, Prince William told reporters that the royal family “was hardly a racist family” and admitted he still had to talk to his alienated brother after Oprah’s interview. Now, the updated edition of Finding Freedom has stated that the Sussex were far from happy with the official response from Buckingham Palace.
But his legal team at Schillings told MailOnline today that it was false and defamatory to claim that the couple had “rekindled a breach” with the queen or to suggest or imply that they had made statements about it.
His lawyers insisted that there was no news on the subject and that the allegations were from the book’s authors, Scobie and Carolyn Durand, who do not speak for the Sussex and are based on unnamed sources.
The updated version of Finding Freedom, which Scobie is co-authoring with Carolyn Durand, will be released on August 31, the anniversary of Princess Diana’s death.
Scobie also tried to clarify the situation, tweeting: “Back to this reel and predictably the words are already twisting. The comments made by a SOURCE (a detail that some outlets have deliberately ignored) were about the lack of ownership of the whole of the royal institution. There is no “attack” on the queen anywhere in the book. ”
An excerpt from the new version of Finding Freedom, published in the new issue of People, states that the couple believes that members of the royal family have not assumed “accountability”, which prevents a major thaw in the fracture between the Sussex and the rest of the monarchy. .
“Those three words,‘ memories may vary, ’did not go unnoticed by the couple, who a close source said they were‘ not surprised ’not to take full ownership,” the extract says.
He then quotes a “friend of Meghan’s” as saying, “Months later and little responsibility has been taken. How can you move forward without this?
Claiming that Harry and Meghan do not regret their actions, despite their family’s toll, the book says, “What started [as a] the fairy tale romance became a story that reinvented the genre: an independent, self-made woman who played an equal role alongside her knight. “