{"id":397826,"date":"2026-04-26T01:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/397826\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:14:12","slug":"royal-biographer-drops-bombshell-on-harry-and-meghan-for-calling-him-deranged-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/397826\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal biographer drops bombshell on Harry and Meghan for calling him &#8216;deranged&#8217; | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After parts of the book were serialised in The Times earlier this year before its publication in March, Harry and Meghan\u2019s team <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2184371\/prince-harry-meghan-markle-statemement-latest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released a savage statement in response<\/a> to claims in the book. The statement claimed Bower had &#8220;long crossed the line from criticism into fixation&#8221;, reading: \u201cThis is someone who has publicly stated, &#8216;the monarchy in fact depends on actually obliterating the Sussexes from our state of life,&#8217; language that speaks for itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has made a career out of constructing ever more elaborate theories about people he does not know and has never met. Those interested in facts will look elsewhere; those seeking deranged conspiracy and melodrama know exactly where to find him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Bower seems unphased by the couple\u2019s attack against his book, he told The Daily Expresso that the couple simply can\u2019t take criticism.<\/p>\n<p>He also made a brutal remark about Harry\u2019s reading abilities, claiming he \u201ccan\u2019t read a book\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Bower said: \u201cI mean, Harry can\u2019t read a book, he never has. And I don\u2019t think Meghan reads many books either. But what I take from it is this (the statement), that the thing with Harry and Meghan is that they think only their narrative, only their story should be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can\u2019t take it that somebody could criticise them, that someone could question them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He claimed: \u201cI think it&#8217;s a relationship based on a good business understanding. He needs her, because he\u2019s a lonely sad man, and she needs the label.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harry and Meghan have not made any more statements regarding Bower\u2019s book or anything he has since said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After parts of the book were serialised in The Times earlier this year before its publication in March,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69,3578,205505,205506,16177,136156,205504],"class_list":["post-397826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-harry-books","tag-prince-harry-claims","tag-prince-harry-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry-royal-family","tag-prince-harry-tom-bower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}