Why Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Likely Won’t Address Latest Book Allegations

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Keeping quiet. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle haven’t yet commented on the explosive allegations about them in a new book, but royal expert Gareth Russell doesn’t think they will.“You can’t respond to it all,” the Do Let’s Have Another Drink author exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, July 26. “If you go out answering every single book or allegation, it will consume your entire day.

You won’t have spare time to devote to your own mental health and your own well-being.”The Duke of Sussex, 37, and the Suits alum, 40, are the subject of Tom Bower‘s new book, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors, which claims that the duo were “shackled” before their 2020 royal exit.“Every night they scoured the internet to read the newspaper reports and the trolls’ postings on social media,” Bower claimed in the tome, which hit shelves earlier this month. “Irrationally, they grouped the two together and fed each other’s frenzy about the media.

Convinced that as champions of goodness they were being persecuted by mendacity and racism, they felt victimized by the mildest criticism.”The BetterUp CIO and his wife didn’t respond to Us‘ request for comment after the book’s publication — and Russell thinks the couple will stay silent on the subject.“When you are as famous as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, there is going to be a lot of speculation,” he explained. “It doesn’t always do anyone good in public life to always be answering and rebutting those claims.”Still, Russell believes that the California native and the former military pilot will go down in history as the people who upended the famous royal slogan, “Never complain, never explain.” The phrase was popularized by Queen Elizabeth II‘s late mother, Queen Elizabeth,