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Prince Harry Was Right and It's not just a matter of Royal Gossip [View all]
I'm reading SPARE right now, and it's rather shocking (and also beautifully written, especially the part about his time in Afghanistan. Moehringer did a great job as ghost writer.) UK tabloids really do just make things up and print them, without any repercussions. The press took an old photo of a visit that Harry and Charles paid to a rehab clinic as part of their royal duties, and two years later, that photo was used to accompany a false story that Charles brought Harry to rehab for a drug problem. They make up plain old stupid stuff, too -- like claiming there was a relationship between Harry and Cameron Diaz. The two have never met.
It’s not just a matter of Harry’s suspicions. The Daily Mail columnist Dan Wootton has said “much of the negativity towards the couple is coming from within the royal family. The royal family, and staff of the royal family, are the ones that are very often leaking these stories to the press.”
Other prominent members of the Royal Rota agree. Robert Jobson, the royal editor for The Evening Standard, told the Australian morning show “Sunrise” that “they can deny it all they like until they’re blue in the face, but there’s been an awful lot of leaking, particularly from Kensington Palace,” the office of William and Kate. In tweeting an early report of the rift between Harry and his kin, Richard Palmer of The Daily Express said the royal family “and their advisers recognize the value of a symbiotic relationship in communicating with the public who pay for them. I’m not sure Harry does.”
The British journalist Andrew Marr, a confessed fan of Queen Elizabeth II, says Harry’s claims are important. After all, Marr said it well: “Either well-known journalists are making a lot of stuff up, just sitting at their laptops at the kitchen table inventing the detail of feuds and private confrontations, or a particularly confidence-rotting form of anonymous briefing has been taking place.”
Maybe they could be part of an inquiry similar to the one after the phone hacking scandal by Rupert Murdoch’s tabloids.
Other prominent members of the Royal Rota agree. Robert Jobson, the royal editor for The Evening Standard, told the Australian morning show “Sunrise” that “they can deny it all they like until they’re blue in the face, but there’s been an awful lot of leaking, particularly from Kensington Palace,” the office of William and Kate. In tweeting an early report of the rift between Harry and his kin, Richard Palmer of The Daily Express said the royal family “and their advisers recognize the value of a symbiotic relationship in communicating with the public who pay for them. I’m not sure Harry does.”
The British journalist Andrew Marr, a confessed fan of Queen Elizabeth II, says Harry’s claims are important. After all, Marr said it well: “Either well-known journalists are making a lot of stuff up, just sitting at their laptops at the kitchen table inventing the detail of feuds and private confrontations, or a particularly confidence-rotting form of anonymous briefing has been taking place.”
Maybe they could be part of an inquiry similar to the one after the phone hacking scandal by Rupert Murdoch’s tabloids.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/opinion/harry-meghan-tabloids.html
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