However, in June, Keeper of the Privy Purse Sir Michael Stevens confirmed it would not be published despite leading to a change in palace HR policy. broadsheet The Times in March 2021 days before CBS was due to broadcast Harry and Meghan's Oprah Winfrey interview, which would contain claims of racism in the heart of the royal family.Īt the time, Buckingham Palace launched a review of the handling of the complaint which journalists were initially led to expect would be published in the Sovereign Grant report. The bullying accusations were leaked to U.K. If Bower is preparing to publish the accounts of palace employees who say Meghan mistreated them it could reignite a saga that Buckingham Palace moved to sweep under the carpet as recently as June 2022. Prince Andrew 'Newsnight' Interview to Be Turned Into 'Thrilling' New Drama.Meghan Markle 'Unfairly Targeted' for Causing 'Megxit'-Tina Brown.Prince Charles Has 'Stage Fright' Over Being King.The Duchess of Sussex was accused of driving two PAs out of the royal household in a 2018 email from her communications secretary Jason Knauf to a superior in Kensington Palace.

And it's a really gripping story.'īower gave no indication whether the 'victims' he spoke of were the palace staff who Meghan was accused of bullying or people from further back in her life story. The victims are keen to talk and they have spoken. It is an astonishing story of a woman who came from nothing and is now a world figure and has trampled on all those others on the way which is classic for the sort of people I always choose, whether it's a politician or a tycoon. He added: 'It has turned out to be.a very, very hard slog because people were pretty reluctant to speak and she and her lawyers had done very well to keep people silent, but I got through enough. And I think that the public perception of her will be either confirmed or outraged or in any case, it'll be a great surprise.' Mark Metcalfe/Getty ImagesĪ confirmed publication date was announced on July 14, with just a week to go before the book hits shelves and with little fanfare from the publisher, BLINK Publishing, an imprint of Bonnier Books Ltd.Ī review in The Mail on Sunday described Bower as the 'undisputed Witchfinder General of contemporary biographers.'īower himself has done little to quell speculation it will be a hatchet job on Meghan and told GB News in May: 'I have found out things which are really quite extraordinary about her. Above, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle visit the Sydney Opera House in Australia on October 16, 2018. A biography by Tom Bower is expected to be heavily critical of Meghan Markle.

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