First of all, I am neither a monarchist nor a republican. I feel that my attitude to the Royal Family is quite down to earth, though do have enormous respect for the Queen. This is not a well-written book by any stretch of the imagination. Bower is a very poor technical writer - he overuses certain words (e.g. 'pertinently') FAR too much, and his overall style is dry and repetitive. However, I do give this book kudos for being clear and easy to follow. It chronicles Meghan's life and career from birth onwards, as well as of course her introduction to Harry and explosive departure from the royal family.

I'm not going to pretend it was a worthwhile read, but it only took me two days so I don't feel like I wasted too much time on it. It's actually quite a good book, quite fair in many ways. A good read definitely. But probably out of date as soon as the Netflix series airs.

2. Meghan was 'always fascinated by the Royals and had Diana bio on her shelf'

Michael Cohen is the principal of Crisis-X, a crisis management company. He acted as personal attorney to the former President of the United States, Donald. J. Trump, and before that was Executive Vice President for the Trump Organization and Special Counsel to Donald J. Trump. Since his release from the Otisville Federal Correctional Institution, he has authored the New York Times number one bestselling book, Disloyal: A Memoir. He also hosts the top-rated news podcast, Mea Culpa With Michael Cohen , and has become a political commentator regularly seen on major news outlets. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children. AUTHOR’S NOTE: Police protection has nothing to do with having a title or not. Andrew's daughters both princesses don't have it. Meghan knew that too. Lies lies lies. Her version of HER TRUTH (recollections may vary) and no other seems to be her mantra.....anything else and you're the enemy. Use, abuse & forget (ghost) once your usefulness is over. The book goes quiet lightly on the wayward Prince. He is shown as a self centred but easily manipulated. Did he see his chance for finding a wife running out, after the previous long-term girlfriends had rejected him and jumped on it? During her short lifetime, she published only this one novel. The violent tale was received with dismay. But its reputation grew. And grew. Into a classic. It was published 174 years ago, and still feels relevant and contemporary. The foundling Heathcliff could never cope with the fact that his twin flame Catherine married a childhood friend. A wonderful novel depicting passion and revenge spanning generations. Personally, I (and many other Britons) have always felt like the largest source of tension was probably Meghan's very different outlook. Royalty in the UK is not celebrity as we understand it. It means shutting up about your personal opinions, not carving your own path, and not drawing excessive attention. Someone who's been intent on a Hollywood lifestyle from a young age would understandably find that level of self-silencing quite difficult to follow.

That's me! I'm from a top political family in the Caribbean and the disastrous tour had nothing to do with Meghan at all. It has been brewing for so long. Barbados pulled out after many years planning to become a republic with one of the best and most intellectual politicians Mia Amor Mottley as prime minister. Jamaica has been talking about it so long, that it only needed the spur of Barbados for them to finally speak out. Grenada and St Lucia are just pissed off with colonialism and the Chinese are busy funding projects and teaching them Mandarin. Concealing humiliation to achieve success had transformed a compassionate young woman into a merciless opportunist. To advance herself she not only abandoned her father and close friends, but first misled Harry's relations and then been accused of lying to Oprah Winfrey. The consequences for the Windsors were irrelevant to Meghan. She only considered the advantages for herself. Her television appearance with Winfrey had reinforced her global celebrity. The question was whether her damage to others, in revenge for their refusal to meet her demands, would eventually result in self-destruction. In her own terms Meghan's career had been an astounding success. Thanks to her father she had prospered despite her parent's divorce and, during her school years, her mother's frequent absence. Thereafter her acting career and personal relationships had been a mixed success. At 24 she had faced an uncertain future. Meeting Harry (which she orchestrated) had delivered the fame and fortunes she had sought since childhood. Engineering that encounter and overcoming the justified doubters among Harry's family exposed the determination of a Hollywood survivor. Toughness came with a price. What does the future hold for Meghan and Harry? And can the rest of the Windsors restore their reputation? It would have been easy to make this a predictable story of revenge with all of the expected scenes and usual outcomes. However, the story was delivered at a high level - a well- layered and executed plot that unfolded in a tension-filled manner. It reflected serious criminal issues and creatively researched ideas that made the story stronger. The pacing moved along at a steady staccato pace, with several twists and turns along the way. It was methodical, tight plotline from beginning to end.In my youth, I was fascinated by the Swedish writer PC Jersild’s novel A Living Soul, in which the protagonist is in fact a free-floating brain inside an aquarium standing in a laboratory. The brain falls in love with its caregiver, which doesn’t work out brilliantly. When I, 37 years later, read Ian McEwan, I was reminded of A Living Soul . In Nutshell, the protagonist is an unborn foetus inside its mother’s womb. It’s bleak, funny, murderous – and Hamlet-inspired. The British Royal Family believed that the dizzy success of the Sussex wedding, watched and celebrated around the world, was the beginning of a new era for the Windsors. Yet, within one tumultuous year, the dream became a nightmare, with the infamous Megxit split and bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview. The rest of the family and the country of course cannot blindly share his devotion or show her the way he does and that is where it went wrong. If he, like her parents, wants to live by the motto what Meghan wants Meghan gets then he can do that in a private life, but it was never going to work for the rest of the family. They had to respect the system even when they did not like it and so of course they expected them to do the same. In ordinary families it would be very different of course, but that could not be here.