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Meghan went on: “In accordance with the advice that I received from the two senior family members… I decided that I would write a letter to my father.'

#Harry the hostage how to

She admitted two senior members of the Royal Family – whose names have not been made public – held a meeting with her and Harry “in regards to how to deal with the concern surrounding my father and his dealings with the media”. Especially in regards to her father, Thomas Markle Snr, who pulled out of his daughter’s May 2018 wedding at Windsor Castle at the last minute, following a heart attack.

Indeed, further contradicting her earlier prime-time narrative, Meghan this week went into great detail about the lengths her in-laws had gone to to help. And it wasn’t just the palace PR machine that was going into overdrive for the couple but the Royals themselves. Yet what Knauf’s witness statement – and the Duchess’s response to it – reveals is that no one was silent. Not only was I not being protected but they were willing to lie to protect other members of the family but they weren’t willing to tell the truth to protect me and my husband.” When asked: “Were you silent or were you silenced?’ Meghan famously replied: “The latter. Most of all, it is impossible now not to recall Meghan’s emotional interview with Oprah last March, as she exclaimed: “I’ve advocated for so long for women to use their voice and I was silent.”

#Harry the hostage plus

Plus it is a vindication of staff who have always claimed they “bent over backwards” for the couple. Moreover, it exposes just how much was done behind the scenes to placate the pair nicknamed “Duchess Difficult” and “The Hostage” below stairs. Rather than being abandoned, it is a damning indictment of the gospel according to Harry and Meghan. Far from being unsupported by the “institution”, as they described the monarchy to interviewer Oprah Winfrey, the evidence appears to tell a different story.

Indeed, this week Meghan was forced to apologise for previously unintentionally misleading the High Court, in her privacy case against the Mail on Sunday that is now at the Court of Appeal.īut this week’s revelations also lay bare another uncomfortable “truth” for the couple. Understandably, much has been made of the evidence showing that the Duchess did co-operate with the authors of what turned out to be a highly flattering account of the Sussexes’ lives in the Royal family. So if you aren’t planning on telling them, can I?!”Īn incredulous Knauf replied: “Of course – I’ve never stopped!” It was a sharp insight into just how many fires he and others had fought on Harry and Meghan’s behalf in the two years since she had come on to the Royal scene. “Even if they choose not to use it, they should hear what it was like from someone who was in the thick of it. “Media onslaught, cyber bullying on a different scale, puppeteering Thomas Markle etc etc etc. Two days before Jason Knauf sat down with Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand to provide a two-hour background briefing for Finding Freedom – their biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex – he had an extraordinary email exchange with Prince Harry.ĭesperate for the authors to “get some truths out there,” the Prince begged the communications secretary he shared with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to make sure Meghan was cast in a positive light.