I’m consistently curious about Us Weekly’s royal coverage and whether they’re just pulling stuff out of their asses, or if there’s an actual effort (somewhere) to twist the coverage a certain way. It definitely feels like Us Weekly wants to mimic People Magazine’s efforts to do cutesy, almost cloying coverage of all of the royals, including the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Anyway, Us Weekly’s royal exclusives always haunt me because I’m like “where are they getting THIS?” So it is with this piece. An “insider” swears up and down that Meghan and Harry “agreed” to soften what they say about King Charles III. Hm.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are changing “direction” when it comes to how King Charles III will be portrayed in their upcoming projects, a source exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly.
“They’ve both agreed to reach a neutral ground by softening the parts on Charles and adding intimate details about [Queen Elizabeth II‘s] legacy,” the insider says of the pair’s upcoming Netflix documentary and Harry’s highly anticipated memoir.
The Suits alum, 41, and her husband, 38, are hoping to keep their revelations “interesting without crossing a line” following the queen’s death at 96 in September, the source tells Us.
A release date for the royal duo’s docuseries has yet to be confirmed. Similarly, it’s unknown when Harry’s memoir will officially hit shelves after it was announced in July 2021. With so many projects coming down the pipeline, the Archewell cofounders are leaning on one another even more.
“He’s so grateful to Meghan for her input and they make all of these big decisions together, so of course there’s that balancing act of weighing up pros and cons to consider,” the source tells Us. “And it goes the other way, too — he’s equally involved in her big picture, they’re very much at one that way and maintain they always will be.”
The Duke of Sussex is adjusting some of what will appear in his memoir, especially in regards to his father, 73, Queen Consort Camilla, Prince William and Princess Kate, per the insider. However, Harry and the Bench author are still set on telling their stories.
“Meghan moved to America to have a voice and feels it’s important for Harry to speak up about matters close to his heart, including his family,” a second source reveals.
[From Us Weekly]
Harry and Meghan ‘Agreed’ to Soften Charles Content in Documentary, Book
The whole “Meghan and Harry are rethinking their projects in the wake of QEII’s death” thing was started by the British tabloid media. That argument never made any sense – after QEII passed away and Harry lost the only person in that family with whom he still had a deep emotional connection, that suddenly he would… want to not tell the truth about how his father and brother treated him? That Harry would be “scared” of what? Charles’s “popularity” or “authority”? Charles is literally throwing a tantrum about a Netflix show, he has no authority! Wouldn’t a better argument have been: Harry lost his second mother figure and was subsequently snubbed and treated abominably by the family, so he’s feeling very scorched-earth these days? Anyway, can’t wait for Harry’s magazine covers and TV interviews to promote his memoir!
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- State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II held at Westminster Abbey in London. Featuring: Prince William, Prince of Wales, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Peter Phillips, King Charles III, Princess Anne, Princess Royal Where: London, England, United Kingdom When: 19 Sep 2022 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
Why would charles,Camilla,William and Kate need to be mentioned at all.
Maybe I’m overthinking it, but the way I see it is BP is putting all this out there so that when Charles and camilla are ultimately NOT heavily mentioned in either project, they can parade around like it was down to them setting rules, and not just h+m having more to talk about/successful lives without them.
THIS. They want it to appear that they controlled the narrative, still having power over Harry.
Totally agree with you here.
@Tessa, I ask the same question, Why? They are not part of his transformation.
So, as a threshold matter, I don’t believe this at all. We don’t know what their docuseries is about (we know Liz Garbus is involved, that it involves their love story, maybe? But that seems to be it). And why would Harry be MORE likely to be soft towards the royals now that the Queen is gone? He would not.
But, let’s play along for a bit – the only way I could see Harry softening anything (and just going forward, not going back and changing anything) is if Charles made some sort of deal with him, in a “I’ll call off the press attack dogs and get the tabloids to soften their coverage, drop their coverage altogether, etc if you do X.”
My problem with that is twofold though – first, what “X” could Harry do? He doesn’t badmouth his family, despite what the tabloids say. He doesn’t talk trash about his father or brother. Being honest about your experiences is not badmouthing. Second, we’ve seen over the past month that there was no type of any deal or truce or whatever, bc the tabloids have been attacking H&M on an almost daily basis, starting with the whole Balmoral story, The press seemed to calm down a BIT during the funeral and mourning period, but I think thats bc they were being called out by the international press and global figures, not bc of Charles interfering.
So that theory holds no water for me.
I think this is all about someone – the press, Charles, William – wanting to seem like they have influence over Harry so when the docuseries comes out and the most the royals are mentioned is when Meghan refers to her “in-laws,” they can say they “won” and that Harry backed down etc, even though there was never any backing down.
I agree with you @becks1. This is just the ratchets and royals trying to insert themselves into the Sussexes projects. It’s ironic, isn’t it? They claimed that Harry and Meghan would spend their lives trying to stay attached to the royals, when it’s the royals doing whatever they can to stay attached to Harry and Meghan. How else are the royals and ratchets going to get attention? Who really cares about them, outside of their connection to the Sussexes?
No Sussex mention, hundred of comments in the DM. Sussex mention? Thousands of comments.
I agree completely. They brief the chosen media with the narrative they want out there, knowing it will take little effort to appear true because that’s it. They brief the media.
We know there is no “olive branch” being offered from the Wails. But they put it out there, just to the media (there was no phone call or text) so when the Sussexes don’t appear with the Wails, five steps behind and supplicant in manner, they can say it was rejected,
I don’t believe the Sussexes were going to go hard at C/C or W/K. But they put it out into the universe through the press that of course the Sussexes were “backing down” or whatever.
This was never going to be a memoir that would burn the institution down, it’s about Harry and his journey. So when there’s no big chapter on how bad a father Charles is or how awful a brother William is, they will notch that as a win.
Well said. Exactly. It’s a foul system and Harry wanted no part of it.
So tin foil theory:
While at TQ’s funeral, Harry assured Charles that he and Meghan wouldn’t be talking about him. So now Charles is saying the Sussexes are making changes, so when the Sussexes don’t say anything (as Charles knew they wouldn’t) he (Charles) can claim credit for getting them to “back off.”
I agreed with someone above, too, before I saw your post. I think this is exactly it. But the weird thing is, in order for it to appear that Charles has the “power” to make these changes, there had to be hints dropped that *something* bothersome was going to appear (without saying what that something is). But in the end, all that did was make the public think, “wow, Camilla/The Royals must have done something TERRIBLE in order for the family to be THIS worried!” So that kind of backfired on them.
There is a mystery writer who used to work for one of the tabloid magazines. It may have been us weekly, but maybe it was a different one. In an interview, she talked about how they would get in the paparazzi photos from the agencies and basically make shit up Based on the expressions of the people in the photos. Britney frowning, she was thinking about breaking up with Justin. Britney smiling and happy, she and Justin were secretly engaged.
I think they do the same garbage today. They have no idea what Megan and hairy are up to, but have a magazine to sell.
Absolutely. Back in the 90s I’d buy those gossip ladymags like the NZ Women’s Weekly, New Idea, and Women’s Day if I didn’t have a book for my commute. The Aussie ones were generally trashier and more gossip-focused, but it was clear that the mags were getting the same photos every week, but inventing different stories to go with them.
There was a lot of really sloppy photoshop done with those pictures to open up new made-up narratives, too. One I remember was red carpet shot of somebody-or-other with a bitchy story about how their shoes were terrible and inappropriate, but you could literally see a strip of red carpet where they’d cut ‘n’ pasted different feet onto the photo and not quite matched up the edges.
Haven’t read those mags in decades, but assume its even worse now as photo manipulation has got easier.
I saw the same concept in an old doc, the tabloid responded to false alarm call to Harrison Ford’s house by making up an domestic abuse as the explanation.
This is nuts. Meghan mentioned only the queen and no one else. Harry doesn’t speak about his family. The Windsors NEED the Sussexes to talk them up to get any positive press validated in the US. A neutral stance will validate the re enactment of Tampongate and Kate was in the wrong for Cry-gate.
Weird that Meghan is never given a title. It’s always Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
I notice that too. Like even in other magazines and such and yet her sister in law gets either Duchess Kate (before the Queen died) and Princess Kate. It still bothers me. I also notice even the Sussex Squad calls her by her maiden name too. She’s not single, she’s married. Why couldn’t they just say Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan?
Kate still gets Kate Middleton a lot, you can tell bc her fans go berserk in the comments every time, LOL.
Honestly think it’s the number of clicks they get based on Megan and Kate’s maiden names. Otherwise, the fail would always call Kate either Catherine or POW. I love it though because the sugars are always in comments with their noses out of joint ‘ She hasn’t been Kate Middleton for a decade. Do better.” LOL the old biddies.
Aside from TQ, the Sussexes have refuse to acknowledge C-Rex or other royals with any specificity in their public statements. So its (for the tabs) an educated guess that the RF won’t be featured prominently in their projects.
“Meghan moved to America”. I really wish they would cut this sh*t out. THEY moved. Not she, they, meaning the entire family! Why is this so hard for them?
They also keep infantilizing Harry and keep blaming Meghan for every decision the Sussexes make together. They keep refusing to call her Duchess Meghan but use everyone else’s titles, correctly. This sh*t right here is why she’s keeping your prince and won’t give him back – see, we can infantilize him too but our version is a huge middle finger!
Now repeat after me: Prince Harry is a grown ass man… And if you don’t know what that means, look it up!
Right on! It still gets at me too.
The keyword here is “the source tells Us.”
The use of “the source tells Us.” means a writer (in the case of Us Weekly) made up a character in no-fiction writing to cover the writer’s ass legally.
Yep.
Nothing makes sense anymore. I’m starting to think a portion of the world is on an acid trip, or I’m still on my acid trip since the eve of the US election of 9, 2016. Oh please, I hope I’m just on a bad acid trip, not the real world.
No one knew he was going to show up for the Better Up conference but sure, tell us about private conversations Harry had with Chucklemuck. I’m sure this is totally accurate and not more fan fiction from the BM.
/atds
Question the accuracy of this bit if true, Charles and that family are the least interesting part of anything they do. With the Queen gone what’s the point? Noticed some people who complain about the Sussexes “ using their titles” seemed miffed that the BRF got no mention in Meghan’s interview beside the funeral mention.
Soften= don’t mention any one of them by name, lol. Just say those guys over there. Where I used to live.
“Anyway, can’t wait for Harry’s magazine covers and TV interviews to promote his memoir!”
Me too! I’m not believing anything coming out of US Weekly. Plus there’s noting to soften. I don’t get the sense that they will be talking about the Royal Family in their docu-series and I suspect that they will barely get a mention in Harry’s book.
I doubt Harry will go on a media blitz eventhough the book is high profile. Most likely just a couple of tv and magazine interviews. Similar to what Meghan did for her podcast. They don’t need to do a lot of publicity since the media already does so much of it for them. I think the media believes his book is about the family not about Harry. Obviously they will be talked about but they aren’t the focus. Of course the tabloid media will make the smallest comment into WWIII.
How long before the tabs start to suggest that Harry and Megan have been feeding details to Peter Morgan and THEY are responsible for all the muck in The Crown?
@EasternVoilent, you’re now a source. Lol, let the countdown begin.
Something something because Netflix …
Easternviolet. You nailed it. I literally just got done reading a comment on Twitter accusing Harry of being the source for the crown lol. These people can’t be any bigger fools can’t get any more foolish.
So all this just begs one to ask, “Why does Charles’s image need softening? What has he done that needs soft pedaling?” Even if they can claim that they bullied Harry into changing what he puts out about his father, why was there a need to do that in the first place?
Good question.
As soon as any story says that “Harry or Meghan bash the Royal family” I quit reading it. They have never once done that, even though they have been treated horribly by the entire Royal institution and tabloid rags.
None of these people know anything about the details of the Sussex’s projects, I think it is driving them truly crazy and their desperation is showing. The Sussex’s are not petty and they have no need to change any of their projects.
All of Charles’ hysteria boils down to this: Charles has MUCH to hide, more than anyone knew. Does it have to do with Harry’s investigation of his mother’s death? The “coincidence” of Charles’ claiming that neither Diana nor Harry “wanted” royal protection? Diana died and Harry didn’t, so Harry was able to deny Charles’ lie. Even more?
Wasn’t it last year that US Weekly claimed that Meghan was going to feature Kate and her Charity work in some sort of doc. They also claimed that Kate and Meghan were getting along and regularly chatting. Both things ridiculously, laughably false. Publications like US Weekly and People are determined to maintain the appearance of the Sussexes being connected to/influenced by/ the BRF because the Sussexes sell. It is more profitable to keep the Sussexes tied to the royal family. People keep claiming that it’s the Sussexes who need the royal connection to maintain popularity. That’s BS. These publications are clout chasing off the Sussexes to prop the others.
I’m looking forward to when Harry’s book comes out, and in a magazine interview he’s asked if he changed anything in the book after the funeral and his answer is “NO”. Of course they’ll call him a liar, but it will be HIS words, not a “source”. I also firmly believe that in the book he will call out the media and rip them up one side & down the other. 😈
He will be more open about the role the media played in a way that will not incriminate himself due to his pending lawsuits against them.
Harry doesn’t need to trash his family to talk about his life story. Stay positive about his own journey & stay away from blame game.
The problem has been that should he explain any circumstance in a factual manner, it will be labelled “trashing the family”.
Most unfortunate.
His truth will be their trashing. One idea in memoirs is that of transformation. It would be interesting how that unfolds, but there has been no indication that this book is about family relationships.
US Weekly writing quoting sources who must be in their office with them. One word to describe the story, GARBAGE.
LOL “A source, a source, my kingdom for a source!”