
“That was going to ruffle some feathers.” Scobie said it was hard for Meghan as a mixed-race American to join the royal family. He believed some of the old guard “simply didn’t like Meghan and would stop at nothing to make her life difficult”. The book is also reported to say that Harry felt “unprotected” by his family and disparaged within palace walls for being “too sensitive and outspoken”. The book says Harry believed some of the old guard ‘simply didn’t like Meghan and would stop at nothing to make her life difficult’.

She continued to assist the couple from afar throughout the following months and officially joined their team after the royal exit.Harry and Meghan arrive at the Royal Albert Hall in London in March. Thomas Morgan went on to help with promoting the issue of British Vogue that Meghan guest-edited during her maternity leave, and also helped Harry form his sustainable-travel venture Travalyst, according to Finding Freedom.


In the summer of 2019 Meghan reunited with Keleigh Thomas Morgan, the Sunshine Sachs publicist Meghan used to work with while she was still acting. In their telling, the situation was even more chaotic than it appeared from the outside.īefore the couple made their decision to leave, they had already made connections to some of the people who would come to make up their post-royal team. In the book, authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand go through the play-by-play of the months when Meghan and Harry’s hunch that things might be better outside the family turned into a full-blown royal crisis. So while it seemed obvious that things must have been messy behind the scenes when the couple made the announcement, it wasn’t until this week, with the release of Finding Freedom: Meghan and Harry and the Making of a Modern Royal Family, that the true extent of the bedlam has come to light. Still, the abruptness and finality of their announcement came as a shock to nearly everyone involved-including the courtiers and aides at Buckingham Palace.

There had been plenty of reports that the couple wasn’t happy, and in an October interview with Tom Bradby, their friend and a journalist with ITV, they both admitted that they had been struggling with the pressure that came along with being in the royal orbit. In January, after months of speculation from royal watchers in the know, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced their plan to step back from their roles as senior royals in a post on their now-defunct Instagram account.
