Why does anyone write a memoir? Harry's doesn't sound any worse than any other memoir out there. I think @MacMadame is on the right track. I think Harry wrote it for catharsis. If this helps with his mental health, I won't judge him. We also have no idea what is really in this book. The media has only glommed onto the most titillating parts, without context.
I don't think it is implied, tbh. They don't want privacy -- they want press. They just want to be the ones in control of it. That's what he seems to be so mad about. H&M feel Harry's royal press office sold them out in favor of other royals at times, so now H&M are creating their own press office, of which they are in control, and he is using it to sell everyone else out.
I think Harry, like both of his parents before him, feels misunderstood; no one knows the truth and once they do, they will understand who he is and stop thinking such awful things about him. No one listens! No one sees the truth! No one understands his side of the story! LISTEN TO ME!
Through an election?
They are not just famous or royal. The are part of a head of state family. Harry spoke about having a chaperone who he generally liked so it’s not as if the kids aren’t given support that goes beyond parents and family. That’s because as being a governing family they have public responsibility
I'm pretty sure he is contractually required to do interviews to promote the book. But, how many interviews have you watched? There really don't seem to be that many, and they are easy to avoid watching. AFAIK, he's done one British interview to promote the book and is doing three American interviews. That doesn't seem like a lot for a book promotion. I remember when Michelle Obama released her memoir. She did a number of interviews, did a huge book tour, including arenas, and also a Netflix show. I think it was pretty easy to not watch her interviews and book promotion, and it is the same with Harry. He may step back from interviews soon, but I expect the tabloids will continue to release stories about Harry and Meghan. There's a reason for that. Lots of people want to read them and the tabloids make money. And it sounds like it is pretty easy for them to obtain material from the palace.
ITA. Context matters.
Why would the money ever dry up? Heck, the Kardashians are still raking it in years after people thought their 15 minutes of fame would be over. Harry and Meghan have at least done things. Meghan can bring back her lifestyle blog, then create a fashion line and a makeup line. Oh and maybe the two of them can do a home goods line.
Harry can give motivational talks to big corporations. Meghan can go back to acting. Plus he has millions from his inheritance(s) and can invest it (plus the stuff they earn) wisely to make it last.I totally want to hear about their memoirs!
It's not at all. Zoom has made book "tours" easier, but one thing that will make you tired of your favorite authors is hearing them on the fourth Zoom call where they're asked the same questions, give the same answers, read the same passages, and seem as bored as you are, although, once in a while, there will be a
interviewer who gets a fresh take.
https://twitter.com/MrAndrewCotter/status/1612529516626206721
The problem is Harry and Meghan also leak. Finding Freedom
So obviously you don't believe that he had real grievances or at least none that were not comped by his priveledged life. As long as he had material things & a handler he liked he has no reason to complain. Ok then.
It's Sussexes.
Speaking for myself, I think a grown adult with a list of grievances as long as his needs some serious therapy - and not whatever new-age gobbledygook therapy he is currently getting because, clearly, it isn't working, otherwise he wouldn't be sharing with the entire world some of the truly awful things he has said and done in his life with no degree of remorse or growth and maturity on his part. The story he recounts of the mocking the plain and physically disabled Matron at Ludgrove because, among other things, she didn't make him horny is just one example of the lack of awareness this 38-year old father of two has about life in general.
When I read things in here, it seems really bad but whenever I hear H&M talk in their own words in interviews, I find them pretty reasonable and their POV is understandable. This is one reason that I cautioned people to wait until the book it out and they can read these excerpts themselves in context rather than going by second-hand reports.
It's very easy to sound reasonable and think their POV is understandable when the interviewer isn't challenging them on much of what they claim to be factual. It's only after the interviews are aired that the holes are blown through their nice, pat, comfortable narrative. That's why Buckingham Palace's response to the Oprah interview was the word-perfect "recollections may vary."
No line up outside waiting for the store to open?We’ve sold a third of our copies in 4 hours. Even with a 25% discount, it’s still $37 in Canadian funds.
I can buy so many romance novels for that, and there won't be any frostbitten penises in those!We’ve sold a third of our copies in 4 hours. Even with a 25% discount, it’s still $37 in Canadian funds.
I think they sound like they have a point, until I realize they're doing the exact same things they're condemning the BRF for - sharing private information for their own gain, using the media to rehabilitate their image heedless of 'leaving bodies in the streets' in the process, attacking women with sexist stereotypes, gaslighting, refusing accountability, etc. Seems like the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
