“If they had sat down with her at the start and said, ‘Let’s talk about the things you are interested in,’ things might have been different.” “There is only one self-made millionaire in the Royal Family and that is Meghan Markle,” he said. Ultimately, though, he thinks the palace had a duty to treat her more fairly. The idea of our modern royalty was built on the idea of these two brothers.” “It’s a question of values, even about the national morale. Lacey told the Daily Mail that he decided to write about Harry and William because he thinks their argument may imperil the family’s future. He has since written books about the Saudi royal family, Princess Grace of Monaco, and the Ford family. Though Lacey began his career writing biographies about figures from the distant past, he became a go-to expert on the royal family after his 1977 biography of Queen Elizabeth, Majesty, became a classic of the genre. And they certainly didn’t know what to do with the spare’s wife.”

They just don’t know what to do with the spare. It’s the classic heir and the spare thing. “They always treat the second-born badly, not to say cruelly. “The Palace got this very wrong, as it always does with the second-born,” he said.

Lacey’s book, Battle of the Brothers: William and Harry-The Inside Story of a Family in Tumult will be released on October 13, and in an interview with the Daily Mail Friday, he said the rift is about more than Meghan Markle’s entrance to the family.Īccording to Lacey, it has its roots in the fact that siblings of the future monarch have long had a difficult relationship with the palace. For years, the press has reported on rumors that the brothers were no longer as close as they used to be, but it wasn’t until an interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby last October that Harry admitted the conflict was real. In June, the royal historian and consultant for The Crown Robert Lacey announced that his next book would focus on the dissolution of the relationship between Prince William and Prince Harry.

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