Explosive book to lay bare royal rif t
AN explosive new biography today lays bare the depth of the British royal family’s anger and frustration at Harry and Meghan’s decision to quit.
Written by respected royal biographer Robert Lacey, Battle of Brothers forensically charts the catastrophic breakdown of Prince William’s once rock-solid relationship with Harry – and reveals how the acrimonious fallout has infiltrated every aspect of royal life.
The book, which is serialised from today in the Irish Daily Mail, claims the future British king was so infuriated by Harry’s behaviour that when the Queen called them together for January’s ‘Sandringham Summit’, he refused to have lunch with his brother beforehand. Instead, Harry dined with their grandmother alone.
Even the elderly monarch, who has always had a soft spot for her wayward grandson, felt Harry and
Meghan were ‘erratic and impulsive’ in their behaviour, leading her to strip them of their Sussex Royal moniker, Mr Lacey says.
His new book – for which he spent months speaking to royal insiders, he says – will be seen as an antidote to Finding Freedom, the slavishly flattering biography of Harry and Meghan that was published earlier this summer.
Battle of Brothers promises to l ay bare t he events of t he Sandringham Summit, as well as revealing the truth of the relationship between Harry and William from the cradle to Megxit.
No one is spared from his critical eye and even Buckingham Palace comes under scrutiny for mishandling the crisis, not to mention misjudging a self- pitying and over-sensitive Harry and Meghan.
Mr Lacey maintains that the illfeeling between all of the parties involved became so bad that the Queen deliberately chose not to include a picture of Harry and Meghan with their son Archie, her eighth great-grandchild, on the t able during her Christmas broadcast last December as a slapdown to her grandson.
‘There were some matters on which Elizabeth II would not compromise – and chief among them was the authority of the crown,’ he writes.
‘The Sussex family had been “non-personed” as effectively as the Soviets non-personed Trotsky and Khrushchev – another charming custom, of course, that had been developed by the Kremlin.’