Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of A Modern Royal Family is a biography by Carolyn Durand and Omid Scobie, revolving around the married lives of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s “heartbreak” over Prince Philip’s death will be detailed in the new epilogue of “Finding Freedom”, the book’s publisher announced Monday. For admirers of Harry and Meghan, “Finding Freedom” is 354 pages of sorbet: a dishy narrative that pushes back against media attacks while tracing the couple’s connection from a July 1, 2016, blind date (“ Almost immediately they were almost obsessed with each other,’ a friend said. ‘It was as if Harry was in a trance.’ ”) through their engagement, globally televised wedding and the birth of their son, Archie Harrison.
The paperback edition of authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand’s royal biography will be available on Aug. 31 — the 24th anniversary of the death of Harry’s mother, Princess Diana.
“In the new epilogue, Scobie and Durand share behind the scenes of Harry and Meghan’s groundbreaking interview with Oprah [Winfrey], details behind the couple’s move to California, the various philanthropic and business endeavors the Sussexes have been involved with since their move and what’s to come with Archewell Productions,” HarperCollins said in a press release.
It documents the couple’s whirlwind romance from when they met in 2016 to their decision to step down as senior royals in early 2020.
But so much has happened since then, including the Oprah interview in which a number of shocking claims were made about the family, and the birth of Harry and Meghan’s daughter Lilibet.
Their ‘various philanthropic and business endeavours’ are also expected to be discussed in the epilogue, including their multi-million pound deals with Netflix and Spotify.
The new edition is said to have been written with the help of those closest to the Sussexes.
Last week Prince Harry announced he is writing a memior which is due to hit the shelves late next year
In May 2020, two months after Megxit, HarperCollins announced the publication of Finding Freedom, a biography of the Duke and Duchess authored by royal reporters Carolyn Durand and Omid Scobie. Durand is a producer and writer with two decades of experience with the Royal Rota. She has previously interviewed multiple members of the royal family and contributes regularly to print outlets. Scobie is the royal editor for Harper’s Bazaar, and regularly contributes to Good Morning America and ABC News. He reportedly “maintains strong access to the Sussexes’ working world.”
The book was reported to detail the events leading up to Megxit and reveal “unknown details about the couple’s life together” with “participation of those closest to the couple”. The information in the book was stated to have been drawn from “more than one hundred sources”. Media outlets reported that the Sussexes had contributed to Finding Freedom, which representatives for the couple initially denied. In November 2020, Meghan’s legal team admitted that she had permitted a close friend to communicate with Durand and Scobie, “so the true position… could be communicated to the authors to prevent any further misrepresentation”, confirming the Duchess’s participation in the book
The sensitivity of some details — Harry’s secret Instagram handle (@SpikeyMau5), the prince’s fondness for the ghost emoji, that the couple fired their night nurse over “unprofessional and irresponsible” behavior on her second shift — suggest proximity to the couple, who, tellingly, have not denied the accounts. There isn’t much for them to quibble with.
