Forget Prince Harry’s book, it’s Meghan’s memoir we want to read

There will be more plot twists for the Royal Family if the Duchess of Sussex follows Prince Harry in publishing a “wholly truthful” memoir, Kerry Parnell writes.

Forget Prince Harry’s book. When is Meghan’s memoir coming out?

You can be sure the Duchess of Sussex has a draft in the drawer and a deal on the table.

According to new reports, Harry has done a four-book deal, with a memoir out next year and another after the Queen passes away.
Meghan is said to be writing a wellness-type tome and the fourth … let’s have a guess.

Think Barack and Michelle Obama’s his ’n’ her autobiographies – and remember how much bigger Michelle’s was.

Becoming, published in 2018, has shifted 15 million copies worldwide and even Barack has given up trying to compete with his memoir, A Promised Land, which came out last year. “I’ve already waved the white flag,” the president said.

Do we think this conversation would have been had when Haz and Maz brainstormed the idea of him penning a tell-all? We do.

Meghan already has a book under her belt. Picture: AFP

While Harry can say he plans to “share the definitive account of the experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons that have helped shape him,” we do kind of feel like he has already done that quite a lot.

However, that’s not going to stop the sales, as the book hit the headlines this week and it’s not even written, which means royal commentators will be frothing with fury for another 18 months until the thing is in their hands.

“I’m writing this not as the prince I was born but as the man I have become,” Prince Harry said in a statement.

“My hope is that in telling my story — the highs and lows, the mistakes, the lessons learned —I can help show that no matter where we come from, we have more in common than we think. I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to share what I’ve learned over the course of my life so far and excited for people to read a first-hand account of my life that’s accurate and wholly truthful.”

All I can say is keep your powder dry, Piers Morgan, because this is just a tiddly truth bomb and things will go nuclear when Meghan reveals her Doomsday Book.

Why wouldn’t she?

There’s nothing stopping Meghan sharing her side of the story. She’s proven she can write, with her children’s book The Bench and her moving, personal piece on baby loss for the New York Times. Publishers would have posted her more proposals per day than Harry Potter got Hogwarts acceptance letters. And there’s no Uncle Vernon telling Meghan she can’t have her share of the magic, as she doesn’t speak to most of her family anymore, anyway.

Don’t worry what the Windsors are saying back in the palace, despite all the speculation, they’ve been through this many times before.

Fergie wrote not one, but two autobiographies, My Story and Finding Sarah, and the Queen is still on speaking terms with her.

Plus, Diana famously secretly colluded with Andrew Morton for Diana: Her True Story and would definitely have written an autobiography by now if she were still with us.

Maybe Meghan will, maybe Meghan won’t: you wait … there will be more plot twists yet.