MEGHAN Markle is set to write a wellness guide as part of a four-book mega-deal after a £29MILLION bidding war. The Duchess will pen the tome as part of a contract she and Prince Harry have struck with Penguin Random House. And one of Harry’s books can only be released after the Queen’s death – […]
MEGHAN Markle is set to write a wellness guide as part of a four-book mega-deal after a £29MILLION bidding war.
The Duchess will pen the tome as part of a contract she and Prince Harry have struck with Penguin Random House.
And one of Harry’s books can only be released after the Queen’s death – likely deepening the Royal Family’s reservations over the deal, it’s reported.
Lawyers for the couple initially said they wouldn’t be commenting on those claims – but later said they were “false and defamatory” and only one memoir is planned.
That book will be published next year. Harry vowed that it will examine the “highs and lows” of his extraordinary life.
It will arrive during the year of his grandmother’s Platinum Jubilee.
And his wife will also write a volume in the quartet, the Daily Mail reports.
It comes as:
Meghan is understood to be focusing on health and wellness in her book.
Industry insiders reportedly said the “tell-all” premise of Harry’s memoir was just the “tip of the iceberg”.
Two publishers reportedly flew out from London to Harry’s home in California and took part in an ‘auction’ for the rights to his book.
A source told the Mail: “He conducted negotiations – he had a very ‘take it or leave it’ attitude.
“His starting price was $25m (£18m) and the final figure was way north of that, possibly as much as $35 to 40m (£25-29m).
“Those involved were actually very shocked by his approach, which was to look at them coldly and state his demands: $25million.”
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Meghan is known to be committed to a healthy lifestyle.
In an interview with James Corden earlier this year, Harry revealed: “Interestingly, my grandmother asked us what Archie wanted for Christmas and Meg said a waffle maker, she sent us a waffle maker for Archie.
“So breakfast now, Meg makes up a beautiful organic mix, in the waffle maker, flip it, out it comes, he loves it.
“Archie literally wakes up in the morning and says ‘waffle’.”
News that Harry will be writing his memoirs prompted one royal expert to say the royal has well and truly “gone rogue”.
Richard Fitzwilliams fears the “totally unpredictable” Duke of Sussex could use the book as “leverage” against the royals.
Despite being 18 months away, its release is already threatening to widen the family rift and put the royal celebration in turmoil.
The Palace has allegedly been warned they “should be afraid” of what’s to come from it.
Mr Fitzwilliams told The Sun Online: “This book has the potential to be dynamite.
“But the thing is, what do the Sussexes really want from the royal family next? What do they want them to do? They have gone rogue. It is a fact.
“It’s incredibly worrying because they are so totally unpredictable. Anything is possible.”
And ITV’s royal editor Chris Ship said on his podcast The Royal Rota that Harry’s family were taken by surprise by the news.
“I suppose the question that people have asked, perhaps justifiably, is this is very strange way to go about seeking less publicity,” he said.
“It’s a one-sided account again though, because the thing with the Royal Family is, they themselves don’t write books, they themselves don’t give interviews about what’s happened within the family dynamic – it makes this a very difficult one-sided story yet again.
“They don’t get to have their say about how they felt when Meghan and Harry left, what they were like to work with within the Royal Family.
This took all the Palaces by surprise – we know people who were with Palace types when announced and they had absolutely no idea.
“They had no forewarning Harry was going to write his memoirs.”
