Explosive Harry memoir ‘will still be coming out as planned’
PRINCE Harry’s autobiography is set to be published as originally planned this November despite the death of the Queen, a royal author has claimed.
Neither the publisher nor the duke have confirmed their intentions.
Writer Tom Bower, whose biography of the prince’s wife Meghan was published earlier this year, said the book would be printed at Clays in Bungay, Suffolk, under conditions of great secrecy, with staff being checked on their way out for copies.
He added: ‘The book is a timebomb which Charles and William wanted to defuse. Harry did not think that he would be in the UK when the Queen died and the circumstances are different to how they all envisaged it.
‘That said I hear that it is being printed at Clays. It will take weeks to print and then weeks to distribute it globally.’
A source close to the duke disputed the accuracy of Bower’s account, although they did not comment specifically on the planned publication date.
Representatives of the publishers, Penguin Random House, did not respond to requests for comment.
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and novelist JR Moehringer has ghost-written the memoir, whose title has yet to be revealed.
Harry said when the book was announced last year: ‘I’m writing this not as the prince I was born but as the man I have become.
‘I’ve worn many hats over the years, both literally and figuratively, and my hope is that in telling my story – the highs and lows, the mistakes, the lessons learned – I can help show that no matter where we come from, we have more in common than we think.’
Harry’s memoir is said to be of deep concern to the royal household, which is not expected to see the manuscript before it is printed.
Bower, the author of Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors, told GB News: ‘I think they’ve convinced themselves they’re in the right and they want to get their own back.’