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A good word for Meghan: She chose admirable role models for herself, like Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton(politically), with Emma Watson and Angolina Jolie(philanthropy and Hollywood). Strong women who set a perfect example of how to rise from obscurity to respectable prosperity, come what may. When Hollywood was not producing the fame and fortune, politics would. Or so she schemed. She grew up white, never worked while in school, wasn't present with uprisings in Los Angeles, did not live in poverty in a small converted garage in Hollywood with her father, and was not bullied in school as a mixed-race child. She did not work her way through college all by herself. Did not happen. Daddy paid all the way. She claimed she spent ten years of her life on the set of Married With Children in the afternoons after school. Nope, it was her Friday afternoon treat only. She also claimed that she spent her 'entire senior year' working at the US embassy in Argentina, when it was only five weeks. This instant #1 internationally bestselling “explosive tell-all” ( Daily Express, London) reveals the inside story about Meghan Markle’s journey from minor actress and attempted activist to the woman powerful enough to fracture the British Royal Family. Harry needs to grow up and learn life is not easy, even if you are a privileged brat from a broken home. He made his choice to leave The Firm, that means you lose the benefits of that employment... A former Panorama reporter, his books include unauthorised biographies of Tiny Rowland, Robert Maxwell, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Geoffrey Robinson, Gordon Brown and Richard Branson.
Police protection has nothing to do with having a title or not. Andrew's daughters both princesses don't have it. Meghan knew that too. Lies lies lies. This feels like race based bigotry because the pedophile prince is just rarely mentioned while the author practically foams at the mouth at the mention of Meghan. This will end one of two ways I believe - eternal happiness because he's why she's famous, and she will never let go of that fame, or a spectacular divorce followed by a 50/50 asset split...Bless those California divorce laws....and a very bitter custody battle with few chances of him succeeding, I think.
The book also appears to contradict accounts from Markle's former coworkers
Meghan tells lies. She lied on Oprah, she lied in court about not having any involvement at all in the hagiography Omid Scobie wrote Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family. She said she 'forgot' she had collaborated on it, suggested things he might write about and gave him her full participation. Meghan lied about growing up an only child, her half brother and sister were in the house. Meghan lies, but since it is the initial statement that has impact and few people even notice apologies and retractions, it is a good way to operate if it's bringing you fame and fortune. I've read about ten chapters so far, learned quite a bit. Meghan's mother was a hippy-dippy make up artist who either failed a makeup artist exam or couldn't get work, with such a disorganised view of family and life that Meghan chose to live with her father who financed everything and spoiled her. He turned her into what she is today when he and her mother decided, on her birth, that whatever Meghan wants, Meghan gets. Give her the benefit of the doubt Ghostie, probably nerves....ok ok....and I could go on and on, but it all kind of pilled up for me from there and well the rest is history...still in the making, but history for sure.
What a roller coaster ride of emotions, twists and turns Revenge has taken me on! With ex SAS operative David Shelley opting for the quiet life in London with his wife Lucy, things soon turn on their head when Shelley is made aware of the death of a young woman whom he’d befriended as her bodyguard when she was ten years old. With the police declaring it suicide, Emma’s parents called on Shelley for help as their belief was that their daughter, even though tangled up with drugs, would never commit suicide. I enjoyed reading the tale of Meghan Markle. Her ups and downs, her good and bad. She is a remarkable person, writing her own real fairy tale in the grim reality of fame and fortune in the politics of Hollywood's fantasy land for grown-ups. Her carefully calculated plans might just pay off. I am enough, she says. We better believe her. Unlike the Kardashians who developed their own merchandise, she might as well become the greatest 'influencer' who ever lived by getting paid to destroy a thousand-year-old-institution. That’s her ready-made merchandise. As long as she can uphold her role as martyr and victim, she will make money. She is first and foremost a businesswoman. Everything is calculated on commercial terms. With Emma’s father, a wealthy businessman, determined to exact revenge, and Shelley equally determined to stop that, things came to a head with the involvement of the Russian mafia. Making enemies of these people was something Shelley desperately wanted to avoid, but with the grief and anger ruling the father’s emotions, escalation was inevitable. What would be the outcome to this nasty game of revenge?In my reading of this book I didn’t feel that Tom Bower had done a hatchet job on Meghan Markle. He presented already known information about her life and behaviour; including her ambition and willingness to use and discard people. He also does give credit to her for being a hardworking actress.
Update 2 If you find something in a book that is not true, it makes you doubt everything doesn't it? Meghan's 'game' in the media, especially interviews is to rely on no one actually knowing the truth (in the US) and so she gets away with it. The author is playing exactly the same game. Bower says she warned her that royal duties would take over - and she wouldn't be able to make any more films. There is an outlier, the British Virgin Islands, they want to be British, they like the Queen, they think their own politicians (the Premier Andrew Fahie is in prison in Miami awaiting trial on drug and corruption charges) they are happy to be a colonial outpost at least right now. Ah, revenge. Despite famous idioms and phrases such as “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” and “turn the other cheek,” history and stories are filled with revenge. Which is why we also have the popular expression “revenge is a dish best served cold.” (Which is just a fancy way of saying “wait for it.”) So it was easy to come up with a list naming ten of the best revenge novels.
An unauthorised biography by Bower of Richard Desmond, provisionally entitled Rough Trader, awaits publication. Bowers's biography of Simon Cowell, written with Cowell's co-operation, was published on 20 April, 2012. Merely four years since their wedding the Sussexes had transformed the Royal Family from a relatively harmonious group, embracing multiculturism as part of their service to Britain and the Commonwealth, into a beleaguered institution uncertain of its future. Single-handedly, and for considerable financial gain, the Sussexes had tarnished the Queen's global reputation for unblemished decency. To their harshest critics, they had become agents of destruction.
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