(PLEASE NOTE! I did not write this, nor do I own the rights to it, but wanted to share it by copy and paste rather than the usual link, since I believe it is so important. I’ll take it down if there is ANY problem with it! But he says it better than any of the rest of us can.)
PIERS MORGAN: Meghan and Harry's new book only confirms they're the world's most tone-deaf, hypocritical, narcissistic, deluded, whiny brats - AND that most of the stories the 'lying' press wrote about them were 100 percent true!
'Where’s
the positivity,’ moans Prince Harry,'
why is everyone so miserable and angry?’
I
regret to say I laughed out loud when I read that line from the new book
“Finding Freedom” which claims to be the REAL story about why Harry and his
wife Meghan quit the Royals and Britain.
It’s
hard to think of anyone in public life right now more relentlessly miserable,
angry and negative than the Duke and Duchess
of Sussex. Barely
a week goes by without them whining about something or suing people. They’ve
become serial victims, intent on painting themselves as the most hard-done-by
people on God’s earth.
Yet
the more they complain, as the rest of the world struggles with the very real
hell of the worst pandemic for 100 years, the more they expose themselves as a
pair of appallingly bitter, staggeringly self-obsessed, utterly deluded, and
woefully tone-deaf laughing stocks.
The
title of the book alone has made me shake my head ever since it was announced. It is
obviously derived from Nelson Mandela’s autobiography ‘Long Walk To Freedom’
which is one of the most powerful books ever written about regaining liberty.
But
any comparison between Mandela and the Sussexes is frankly a sick joke.
For
18 of his 27 years behind bars, South Africa’s most iconic leader was housed in an
8ft-by-7ft concrete cell on Robben Island with only a straw mat to sleep on. He
had an iron bucket for a toilet, thin blankets for his bed, and allowed one
visitor a year. He couldn’t even attend the funerals of his mother and son.
Finding
Freedom: Harry, Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family, has been
written by royal watchers Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, described as the Duke
and Duchess of Sussex's 'cheerleaders'.
Every
day, Mandela would work in a lime quarry, breaking stones as armed guards
watched over him. So,
the freedom he experienced when he finally got out of prison was a very real
and visceral one.
Harry
and Meghan’s experience in captivity has been slightly less oppressive.
After
a sumptuous wedding that was rapturously received around the world, they lived
in a palatial taxpayer-funded royal home, were waited on by teams of servants,
flew around in private jets, and attended glitzy movie premieres where they
were cheered by screaming fans.
But
it wasn’t enough.
Stung
by a series of perceived slights by other members of the royal family and
palace courtiers, and repeated media criticism of hypocrisy based on their
undeniably hypocritical behavior, they began to see this gilded life of
unimaginable luxury and privilege as a ‘prison’.
In
their eyes, they had become Nelson Mandela, the victims of a terrible
miscarriage of justice now trapped in a world of unending misery. So,
they broke ‘free’, dramatically announcing in early January that they were
quitting the royals, and Britain, and heading off for a new life in America where they could be the people they
wanted to be and lead the lives they wanted to lead.
There
was just one problem. Unlike
Mandela, who emerged from his very real prison with extraordinary positivity,
an astonishing lack of bitterness, and an intense desire to unify not divide,
the Sussexes seem even more unhappy now than they were before and intent on
causing as much division as possible.
This
new book, clearly written with their approval and with enough private details
to establish that a lot of it came directly from the horses’ mouths, was
supposed to ‘set the record straight’. We
would all apparently read it, understand how badly treated they were, and
sympathize enormously.
In
fact, the opposite has happened.
The
extracts published in various newspapers have only shown us just how
pathetically self-pitying Harry and Meghan have become.
This
was a couple who had it all - but threw it away in a massive fit of ego-driven
pique. The
sheer scale of their narcissism is astonishing, and at the heart of it lies one
stunning fact: they genuinely couldn’t understand why William and Kate, the
future King and Queen, got preferential treatment to them.
Time
after time in the book, this seething resentment re-emerges and it explains
everything. For a
couple so low down the Throne Succession cab rank, the Sussexes have delusions of grandeur and
importance on a breath-taking scale.
They
also have no sense of self-awareness.
In
the book, Harry and Meghan, always so angry at media intrusion into their
family’s life, have stuck the knife into his family in spectacular fashion.
Harry
whacks his brother Prince William for being a snob and his father Prince
Charles for being thoughtless, while Meghan whacks her sister-in-law Kate, the
Duchess of Cambridge, for being cold and insensitive towards her.
They
repeatedly accuse the whole Royal family, presumably including the Queen, of
ignoring their desperate plight, despite, as they laughably claim, them
single-handedly leading the royals to supposedly unprecedented heights of
global popularity.
The
fact this garbage is being spewed after the Queen, Charles, William and Kate
have spent months comforting the British people in remarkably empathetic and
impressive fashion during the crisis, is even more grating.
The
deeply intrusive revelations go on, page after page. Of
course, the comical irony of the approved publication of all this ‘setting the
record straight’ private information is that most of it confirms myriad
newspaper stories that we were previously assured were ‘media lies’.
There
are other little snippets in the book that blast off the page like bombs.
Meghan,
we’re told, used to tip off the paparazzi about her movements in Toronto where she filmed her TV show Suits.
One of them even had her phone number.
Oh,
and she would leak stories to the press to promote herself.
When
I read this, I thought immediately of the way she has so heartlessly disowned
her father Thomas for naively colluding with the paparazzi to promote himself
in the run-up to her wedding.
An extract
from the book told how Meghan, sitting on FaceTime to her friend in a bathtub,
confessed she sent her father one last text on the night before her wedding in
May 2018. And
for her furiously worded lawsuit against unknown paparazzi last week for their
alleged intrusion into their Hollywood life.
It’s
clearly one rule for Meghan when it comes to such media-appeasing behavior,
another for even her dad.
As
with so much that surrounds the Duchess’s conduct, the hypocrisy is stunning.
But
what’s even more repellent is her totally delusional victimhood. ‘I
gave up my entire life for this family,’ whines Meghan in the book. No
luv, you gave up precisely three years for this family, then stole away Britain’s favorite Prince to Hollywood where you’re now complaining even more
than you were before.
As
for ‘hostage’ Harry, he’s becoming a tragic figure. It’s getting to the stage
where his former army mates may want to fly over to Los Angeles to carry out an extraction operation
and save him from himself. If
this book is supposed to be the pro Meghan and Harry one, I’d hate to see a
hatchet job.
They
come out of it as the world’s most self-centered couple, bleating away about
their ghastly lives living in TV star Tyler Perry’s $20 million Hollywood
mansion, and seemingly oblivious to the fact that hundreds of thousands of
people have died from the coronavirus and tens of millions more have lost their
jobs.
The
struggle for much of the planet right now is very, very real. Just
as it was for Nelson Mandela for 27 years. Meghan
and Harry’s only struggle is to work out each day which of their latest
borrowed lavish home’s twelve bathrooms they want to luxuriate in before they
bravely appear on those creepy videos to lecture us all about equality and
hardship.
I
think what most of us would like now is to find freedom from this ridiculous
pair’s incessantly negative, miserably, angry whining.
