{"id":2333530,"date":"2026-03-17T18:19:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2333530"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:19:30","slug":"harry-and-meghan-are-going-to-war-their-timing-couldnt-be-worse-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/harry-and-meghan-are-going-to-war-their-timing-couldnt-be-worse-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry and Meghan are going to war &#8211; their timing couldn\u2019t be worse | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s quite incredible when you think about it\u2026 <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Prince Harry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\">Harry<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Meghan Markle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\">Meghan<\/a> really will never learn. With just one move, they\u2019ve achieved the exact opposite of what they wanted\u2026 yet again.<\/p>\n<p>Proving they are the poster couple for warning against the dangers of impulsive action, the Sussexes sprang into action at the weekend to have their spokesman loudly declare that <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Prince Harry \u2018complained he\u2019s been abandoned\u2019 and 'risked assassination'\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2183010\/prince-harry-meghan-markle-assassination\">Tom Bower&#8217;s new book, Betrayal: Power, Deceit and the Fight for the Future of the Royal Family<\/a>, was a \u201cderanged conspiracy and melodrama\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps they thought this was a cunning dismemberment\u2026 a surgically sharpened swipe at someone daring to question their truth \u2013 when, in reality, what they\u2019ve just done is inadvertently turn a controversial book into a global must-read.<\/p>\n<p>By reacting with extreme vitriol, all they\u2019ve done is show that not only has the author struck a nerve, but they\u2019ve guaranteed that the most damaging claims will stay in the headlines for weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Yes, their statement might feel like a necessary defence of their truth, but Bower is a formidable opponent; he has a world-class track record of meticulously researched (<a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2182755\/meghan-markle-tom-bower-claims\" target=\"_blank\">if at times, unflattering<\/a>) books on powerful figures \u2013 a true bloodhound when it comes to sniffing out the facts.<\/p>\n<p>What Harry and Meghan seem to still not have grasped is that if you\u2019re going to take on someone of this calibre, you need to come to the ring with your facts and your steely poker face at the ready, not a slew of throwaway and overly dramatic comments that sound like you\u2019ve just cracked open your nearest thesaurus.<\/p>\n<p>Far from creating the image that Harry and Meghan are these shrewd and capable statespeople that they like to present, effortlessly straddling the worlds of philanthropy, business and self-advancement with savvy sophistication, they\u2019ve once again managed to do the exact opposite. It\u2019s really becoming impressive at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than navigate the choppy waters this book will bring with a dignified silence, or choose to discredit each of Bower\u2019s claims with a neatly presented catalogue of facts, they\u2019ve gone from 1 to 100 in a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve instantly lost their power \u2013 they\u2019re no longer the heavyweights eyeing their moment to deliver the fatal hammerblow, but rather two tantrum-throwing toddlers jumping up and down in the corner screeching about not getting their way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ironically, by using such unweighty words like \u201cderanged\u201d, \u201cconspiracy\u201d and \u201cmelodrama\u201d, they\u2019re just creating the exact same \u201cmelodrama\u201d they claim to despise\u2026 and round and round we go again.<\/p>\n<p>They may not have the tactic down, but you can\u2019t blame them \u2013 this is a high-stakes moment in the couple\u2019s world: their UK security sounds as though it is a hair&#8217;s breadth away from being restored; they\u2019re just about to trek off on another \u2018quasi-royal tour\u2019 Down Under, and are plotting their big return to the UK for Harry\u2019s home run with his beloved Invictus Games.<\/p>\n<p>It became indisputable in the summer that a thawing of his relationship with his father is what Harry craves most; meanwhile, we began to hear whispers that the King will travel to Birmingham in 2027 to open the next round of the Games.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt about it that the monarch\u2019s attendance would be the ultimate reset button for Harry\u2019s reunion with his family, but, in the time that remains between then and now, he really needs to take a step back from the fire and prove he can coexist with the institution and everything that goes hand in hand with it, without trying to dismantle it.<\/p>\n<p>Every time Harry takes a step forward, he seems to take another leap backwards. Perhaps he could take a leaf out of his brother\u2019s book and learn not to add fuel to the fire when it is really not needed, because the reality is, the King won&#8217;t walk into any public space with Harry at his side if he fears their private conversations will end up splashed in the pages of Spare 2.0.<\/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>It\u2019s quite incredible when you think about it\u2026 Harry and Meghan really will never learn. With just one move, they\u2019ve achieved the exact opposite of what they wanted\u2026 yet again. 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