{"id":1964961,"date":"2025-08-17T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1964961"},"modified":"2025-08-17T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T07:00:11","slug":"royal-family-recap-meghan-markle-and-prince-harrys-new-netflix-deal-a-slap-in-the-face-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royal-family-recap-meghan-markle-and-prince-harrys-new-netflix-deal-a-slap-in-the-face-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family RECAP: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry&#8217;s new Netflix deal &#8216;a slap in the face&#8217; | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Disputed claims that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-andrew\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Prince Andrew<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Prince Harry<\/a> were involved in a physical altercation that left the former with a bloody nose will remain in a new biography, its author has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke of Sussex insisted that the incident had never happened after the book began being serialised in the Daily Mail &#8211; and his lawyers sent legal letters to both the newspaper and publisher William Collins. A passage alleging that Andrew told his nephew <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Meghan Markle<\/a> was an &#8220;opportunist&#8221; and that the marriage wouldn&#8217;t last was also denied by the prince&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p>But Andrew Lownie, author of Entitled, which focuses on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-andrew\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Prince Andrew<\/a> and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, told an upcoming episode of Newsweek&#8217;s The Royal Report podcast that it wouldn&#8217;t be removed from the published text.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Harry wasn&#8217;t in my book at all,&#8221; the royal expert and historian said. &#8220;And I think when the book came in, the publisher said, maybe just out of interest, &#8216;What was the relationship between Andrew and Harry?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I went to my source and they gave me that little paragraph talking about the altercations in 2013 and then over Meghan in 2017. I didn&#8217;t think any of us thought that it was anything but a sort of passing moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had to double down with my source and make sure it was accurate, which we believe it is,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Collins have responded in a responsible way, they&#8217;ve added a line actually, and I recorded the line for the audiobook a couple of days ago, just saying that Harry denies these allegations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I hope that will be the end of it. I mean, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s defamatory. I think it actually presents him in quite a positive light, and certainly, there was no desire to cause offence. It was just a sort of reflection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disputed claims that Prince Andrew and Prince Harry were involved in a physical altercation that left the former with a bloody nose will remain in a new biography, its author has confirmed. 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