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Harry & Meghan biography

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Serendipity22 Sun 03-May-20 18:48:53

How many others would be interested in reading Harry & Meghan's biography as I would ?

Happygirl79 Tue 05-May-20 10:04:54

I will read it out of curiosity if its free then I will be furious with myself afterwards for wasting my time

rowyn Tue 05-May-20 10:03:13

All the 'juicy' lies_oops sorry - BITS will be in the newspapers anyway. No way would I pay money for it.
PS How does one do that thing where you put a line through a word?

katy1950 Tue 05-May-20 10:02:47

Not in a million years

maryhoffman37 Tue 05-May-20 09:57:21

No.Not interested in them or the rest of the Royals.

Tanjamaltija Tue 05-May-20 09:53:44

I am not British, so please take this with a pinch of salt. Some of us here do not want to pay the full price for the book, but we will read it when it's being sold at the charity shop. This is much like vegetarians and their soya steaks... they don't want to eat meat, and yet... they sort of want to. Having said that, I don't appreciate official biographies, because they are what the person they are about, wants us to believe.

annsixty Tue 05-May-20 09:48:45

To be so openly and blatantly “money grubbing “ is not a good or enviable trait.

Shortlegs Tue 05-May-20 09:45:05

Curious that a couple that demand their privacy seem to do so much self publicity.

eazybee Tue 05-May-20 09:24:29

I agree with you Annie.
This worthless pair are making people question the validity of the monarchy, because they represent all the bad aspects and none of the good.

Anniebach Tue 05-May-20 08:58:41

They do have support in this country, there are posters on this
forum who defend them.

Republicans will see it as a step closer to get rid of the monarchy.

Jabberwok Tue 05-May-20 08:54:29

These two are certainly hoping to make mega bucks from this 'book' Their motives are so obvious as to be ridiculous, but then they are!! Papers of course will love it and will probably make a killing to! An all round win unless you're the RF and the British racist public! Lets hope it's a complete flop and goes the same way as certain other 'biographies '!

Bridgeit Mon 04-May-20 22:43:25

Papers more than survived, they must have made mega bucks from the ‘stories’ about Diana.

Bridgeit Mon 04-May-20 22:40:55

But folks never seem to tire of this particular topic, do they.

Anniebach Mon 04-May-20 22:39:07

There are always stories to grab the headlines, papers survived
the Diana years

Bridgeit Mon 04-May-20 22:36:02

Of course papers would still sell Annie, but certain topics & headlines are guaranteed maxim sales.

Bridgeit Mon 04-May-20 22:33:51

Newspapers know what sells & which topics to put as front page headlines.

Grannynannywanny Mon 04-May-20 22:33:36

The time on the front pages will be short lived for this publication. Then it will take up its rightful place in charity shops around the country.

Anniebach Mon 04-May-20 22:27:10

People buy newspapers, fact, if this couple remained silent and avoided cameras papers would still sell ,

merlotgran Mon 04-May-20 22:20:08

The papers are more than happy for the opportunity to have storylines guaranteed to sell their papers,

Of course they are and H&M are an easy meal ticket.

They bring it on themselves.

Bridgeit Mon 04-May-20 22:18:20

Yes that would be brilliant, If people stopped buying & showed no interest, but I doubt that will ever happen .

Sussexborn Mon 04-May-20 22:15:24

Interesting question! What a shame the press don’t get together and totally blank them for a month (or 50 years).

Bridgeit Mon 04-May-20 22:14:13

Are they the Editors Annie?

Anniebach Mon 04-May-20 22:10:44

They are choosing to be on the front pages, fact

Bridgeit Mon 04-May-20 22:08:16

The papers are more than happy for the opportunity to have storylines guaranteed to sell their papers, if no one was interested in this couple they wouldn’t bother.

merlotgran Mon 04-May-20 22:08:01

It doesn't make sense does it?

They put out a statement saying they will no longer co-operate with certain tabloids then publicity begins for an authorised biography which, as Annie says, will fill the front pages.

Omid Scobie, one of the co-authors, is described as 'Meghan's mouthpiece who has covered her for many years.'

He looks about twelve. grin

Anniebach Mon 04-May-20 21:54:24

The book is guaranteed to fill the front pages of the press , does blame lie with the press ?

Telling newspapers they will no longer cooperate with them was guaranteed to be on the front pages , does the fault lie
with the press?