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Does Camilla Tominey get paid by the word? Her latest Telegraph piece – \u201cWhy Harry and Meghan\u2019s new deal is their last roll of the dice: With their popularity at an all-time low, will Harry and Meghan\u2019s novel idea put an end to their slump?\u201d<\/em> – is extremely overwritten, so much so that it feels like she\u2019s just cutting-and-pasting from her previous unhinged screeds. As for Harry and Meghan\u2019s \u201cslump\u201d… Harry\u2019s memoir is probably going to be the best-selling nonfiction book of the year, their Netflix series was one of the streamer\u2019s most-watched series of all time, people are binge-watching billions of hours of Suits and the Sussexes are still rich, tan, popular and happy. Some slump. Some lowlights from Tominey\u2019s screed, there are only a handful of new pieces of \u201cinfo.\u201d<\/p>\n The Windsors didn\u2019t invite the Sussexes to Scotland:<\/strong> Far from the \u201ccontinued collaboration\u201d they hoped for with the King and the Prince of Wales, the couple have not been invited to join the rest of the Royal family at Balmoral for the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s death, even though they will be in Europe for the Invictus Games in Germany, which starts a day later, on September 9. When the Duchess turned 42 earlier this month, her birthday was conspicuously ignored by all the official royal social media accounts.<\/p>\n H&M are not popular in a country they left three years ago:<\/strong> The Sussexes have \u201cfound their freedom\u201d with lucrative deals to tell their story to Oprah Winfrey, on Netflix and in Harry\u2019s autobiography, Spare \u2013 but at considerable cost to their status and reputation. In June, Meghan\u2019s approval rating fell to an all-time low of \u201347 in the UK, according to YouGov, with Harry on \u201336. <\/p>\n Adapting Carley Fortune\u2019s Meet Me at the Lake is a \u201csink or swim\u201d moment.<\/strong> As PR guru Mark Borkowski pointed out, the Sussexes \u201chave zero track record in drama or producing anything of consequence\u201d. Describing the adaptation as a \u201cplaybook\u201d attempt by Harry and Meghan to resurrect their media careers after their Spotify deal was axed and other production ideas were vetoed, he added: \u201cThey are so far off the radar. I suspect there is more to this than meets the eye.\u201d Borkowski suggested that Penguin Random House, the publisher of Spare, \u201cprobably\u201d helped do the deal, because it also put out Meet Me at the Lake. <\/p>\n Carley Fortune is Sussex Squad!!!<\/strong> Exposing \u201can intense and insular group which peddles hatred online\u201d, a lengthy article for Refinery29, which is still online, suggests \u201ca mixed-race foreigner\u201d is a \u201cthreat\u201d to the British monarchy, adding: \u201cFor Meghan anti-fans, conspiracy theories which confirm her maliciousness might bolster the view that the British monarchy, by contrast, is beyond reproach.\u201d The piece extensively quotes Omid Scobie, who wrote Finding Freedom, a hagiography of the couple, and is due to publish a second book, Endgame, in November, \u201cexposing the chaos, family dysfunction, distrust and draconian practices\u201d threatening the future of the Royal family.<\/p>\n Connections:<\/strong> Fortune resigned as executive editor of Refinery29 Canada in October 2021, announcing on Instagram that she was working on a second book following her bestselling debut novel, Every Summer After. Her website was recently updated to reflect the fact that she is now represented by Carolina Beltran at William Morris Endeavour (WME) \u2013 the same influential Hollywood agency that signed Meghan in April to build on her \u201cglobal enterprise\u201d.<\/p>\n They\u2019re still terrified that Meghan will write a memoir:<\/strong> Perhaps surprisingly, no one is more determined for them to make a success of the project than the royals themselves. As one palace insider pointed out: \u201cIf the film flops then they\u2019ll no doubt revert to mud-slinging. Everyone\u2019s worried about the prospect of Meghan writing her autobiography and naming the \u2018royal racist\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n [From The Telegraph] <\/p>\n God, I would love for Meghan to write her memoir (with the help of a good editor). I don\u2019t think it will happen though, especially since everything we\u2019ve heard about Meghan lately is that she\u2019s moving on and looking forward. Why would she spend a year writing about how those people mercilessly abused her? I also think that \u201cMeghan\u2019s memoir\u201d was the Oprah interview and Netflix series – that was her cautious version of events. Still, I would read the f–k out of her memoir. As Zora Neale Hurston said: \u201cIf you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.\u201d As for the rest of it\u2026 I actually didn\u2019t know that Carley Fortune is Sussex Squad, so that\u2019s nice. It\u2019s cool that like-minded people were able to come together and make a deal. It will be great to see the movie come together when the strike is over.<\/p>\n Cover courtesy of Penguin Random House and photos courtesy of Instar.<\/small><\/p>\n\n
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