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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read a lot of memoirs and biographies (my favorite genre) and I was really excited about this one after learning it was the same ghostwriter who wrote Andre Agassi’s memoir.  Some of my takeaways:

The opening scene with Harry, his father, and William was a bit cringe, but the book gets much better from there.  I guess what bothers me is how Harry often approaches his brother so openly and then gets treated with derision time after time, but comes back for more.  When he knocked on William’s door to introduce Meghan, I knew that wouldn’t go well at all and I was embarrassed  for him.  William was so dismissive and standoffish to his little brother wanting to share and be open about his life and have a real connection with the people in his family.

The parts about flying an Apache helicopter were fascinating to me and that’s why I read memoirs - the varied life experiences people have and you never know what information is going to pop up.  Same with all of the travel adventures and discovering a new way of seeing the world through his time spent in Africa.

It’s a great memoir - insightful, touching, honest - deals with childhood memories, grief, relationships, work, travel.  I believe the book has been slandered in the press so much because they don’t want people to read it and come away with a different perspective than the media has carefully curated.[/quote]

I agree with all of this, except that I think clearly people don’t believe the Palace spin because it has become a huge bestseller.

I hope he writes a sequel. [/quote]

Meghan needs to have her turn first, then he will do a second. [/quote]

Setting aside all the interesting things that they might do in the future, are there really two more books worth of stuff already left unsaid?  [/quote]

I think there are — but I hope they don’t decide to publish them, at least for quite a while.  Harry said that the book was twice as long as the published version, and that he also provided additional information to provide contexts to his ghostwriter, that he did not want published.  I respect and applaud Harry’s decision— even as I hope it’s in a vault somewhere.

The story that I would like to read is Meghan’s.  An American woman marrying her Prince; a biracial woman trying to navigate not just personalities and family dynamics, but an institution that’s a bastion of colonialism and white supremacy; someone who’s had an interesting life that includes quite a lot that would not have been possible for Black and biracial American women a generation or even half a generation older.  I think it would be an interesting read even if Meghan didn’t reveal stories that aren’t hers to tell. I would buy the book just to hear Meghan’s take on her first meeting with Harry’s family — where a family member flamboyantly chose to wear an appallingly racist brooch.

BUT -  I hope she doesn’t write such a book, at least any time soon, for multiple reasons, including her well-being and safety.  Or rather, I hope she writes it and puts it in a vault, along with the other half of Harry’s.

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