prince harry and meghan markle used to
be at the center of the global spotlight
now one royal watcher seems to think
they've never been less relevant how are
the former royals enjoying their new
life in santa barbara author tina brown
has all the details you want to know
after stepping down from the royal
duties in 2020 prince harry and meghan
markle set up a new life for themselves
in california the pair spent a few
months in los angeles before purchasing
a 9-bedroom 16-bathroom mansion in santa
barbara for 14.65 million dollars a
source told people they both love
california and santa barbara has a magic
to it the mountains oceans vineyards
flowers gardens for harry and megan it
was the perfect place to settle down
with their son archie as well as their
daughter lillabet diana who arrived less
than one year after the move the duke
and duchess of sussex also got to work
on becoming financially independent they
signed a three-year podcasting deal with
spotify for an estimated 15 million
dollars to 18 million dollars as well as
a five-year deal with netflix that is
reportedly worth 100 million dollars per
yahoo while his relationship with the
royal family has reportedly been
strained harry revealed to hoda copy
that he has adjusted well to life in the
united states home for me now is you
know for the time being it's in the
states and it feels that way as well he
added that he and megan were quote
welcomed with open arms and we have such
a great community up in santa barbara
according to a new book though leaving
the royal family apparently hasn't been
as easy as harry and megan expected it
to be while prince harry and meghan
markle seem to be enjoying their lives
in the u.s after making the decision to
leave the royal family tina brown author
of the palace papers revealed that the
couple has reportedly underestimated how
difficult things would be without the
support of buckingham palace brown said
in an interview with the washington post
they both completely underestimated what
it was going to be like to be without
the palace platform what the palace does
of course it has amazing convening power
there's no one who won't take a phone
call if they say buckingham palace on
the phone kensington palace on the phone
every major invitation in the world
comes through that conduit all of that
is now gone the former vanity fair
editor went on to predict that harry and
megan would eventually lose their
netflix deal but that harry should be
fine because of his work as the founder
of the invictus games as for megan brown
is less optimistic she said megan
doesn't really have a brand as the truth
you feel that she is grasping at
whatever is the twitter caring of the
moment it's vaccinations it's ukraine
it's women's rights it's my 40th
birthday let's have a mentoring scheme
nothing is really going anywhere from
megan megan and harry for their part
have not responded to brown's comments
while tina brown's the palace papers is
generating a lot of press prince harry's
upcoming memoir will likely create waves
of its own and impact public opinion of
the duke and duchess of sussex the book
is intended for publication later in
2022 according to the press release from
penguin random house the memoir is
described as an honest and captivating
personal portrait one that shows readers
that behind everything they think they
know lies an inspiring courageous and
uplifting human story royal author phil
dampier told the daily mail he believes
harry's book will be successful harry is
being paid a lot of money and so the
publishers will want something
sensational speculating about the book's
contents dampier added he's bound to
revisit mexic and justify the reasons
why he and his wife left the royal
family j.r mohringer a journalist who
has won the pulitzer prize is
collaborating with harry and acting as a
ghost writer for the project without
mentioning specifics harry said in the
press release that he's quote excited
for people to read a first-hand account
of my life that's accurate and wholly
truthful as to what those truths may be
brown has a few ideas of her own the
author acknowledged the possibility that
harry would name the royal family
members who he accused of being racist
during his and meghan markle's interview
with oprah
and you're not going to tell me who had
the conversation
i think that would be very damaging to
them
brown told the post i'm told it's going
to be very harsh personally i think the
royal family should write a huge check
and say here harry here's a check for
your security maybe you could just sort
of postpone the memoir definitely
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