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Post by Lavendel on Feb 18, 2020 13:17:00 GMT
Diana
Mother Frances was threatened with tell all book.
"Diana's frail mother fears tell-all book"
The delicate health of Mrs Frances Shand Kydd has not been improved by the knowledge that she is to be the subject of a no-holds-barred unauthorised biography. Mrs Shand Kydd, 67, has been upset to be told by friends and relatives that they are being questioned by a journalist who is writing her life story.
The book will purport to be the true story of the alluring deb who married Viscount Althorp, ran off with wallpaper heir Peter Shand Kydd, watched her daughter Diana marry Prince Charles and retired to relative obscurity on a remote island in Scotland. It will also illustrate her close relationship with Princes William and Harry, both of whom have stayed with her.
Along the way, of course, there were plenty of upsets, including her own mother, Lady Fermoy, testifying against her in the custody battle for her four children and Frances's falling-out with Diana over an interview she gave to Hello! magazine not long before the Princess's fatal car crash.
Last year, burglars stole jewellery worth Pounds 100,000 from her home and she was involved in a serious car crash.
A close friend said: 'She's had a tough time in the past year. She really doesn't want anything to do with a book and she is grateful that her family have all refused to assist. She also knows that at least one minor member of the Royal Family has been approached and has declined.' The author, Max Riddington, who has written for The Guardian and other newspapers, can also expect little help from her neighbours on Seil, where she has lived in a bungalow since 1972.
Morton Dianas -own tell all book-
Princess Diana's controversial biographer Andrew Morton to write Meghan Markle tell-all before the royal wedding
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"Princess Diana’s biographer will be publishing a book on the life of Meghan Markle in April 2018, just a month before the “Suits” star marries Prince Harry in May."
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Post by Lavendel on Feb 18, 2020 13:20:53 GMT
Charles
"Prince Charles 'furious' at tell-all book of Diana marriage" WP
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"Prince Charles is reportedly “furious” about a tell-all book about his marriage to the now-deceased Princess Diana is about to hit the store shelves — especially since it’s penned by one of his trusted advisers, former Buckingham Palace press officer Dickie Arbiter."
"Mr. Arbiter, 73, had a front row seat to the couple’s marriage and reportedly knows several intimate details the prince would rather keep quiet, the New York Post reported." Charles is furious,” one palace official said to the Sunday Mirror. “This man was a trusted friend.” The book, “On Duty with the Queen,” is being billed as officer a “behind the scenes” look at palace life during “the most turbulent [time] in the history of the modern British monarchy,” the New York Post reported.
Mr. Arbiter was employed at the palace for 12 years, at the same time the prince and Diana split and she subsequently died in a car crash.
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Post by Lavendel on Feb 18, 2020 13:51:16 GMT
Meghan & Harry
"Feared royal biographer Tom Bower sets his sights on Meghan Markle as friends worry the author could drive a wedge between the Sussexes and the rest of the Royal family
Tom Bower said a biography on the Duchess of Sussex is 'in the offing'
He is currently writing book on Boris Johnson and is known for scathing style
Sources close to Sussexes say it could create divide between them and family"
A ROYAL author dubbed Britain's "most feared biographer" is said to be planning a book on the Duchess of Sussex.
Tom Bower is most famously known for his biography on Prince Charles, who he called the "Rebel Prince".
While the author is currently writing a book on Prime Minister Boris Johnson, he told the Sunday Express that a book about Meghan, is "in the offing".
“I’m not going to go into details – I’m focusing on Boris," he said.
"Yes, it is in the offing, I can’t deny that.”
Bower hasn't expressed many positive views about 38-year-old Meghan and accused the Duchess is "trying to be Diana" while appearing on Good Morning Britain last year."
"They said the idea would be making the Duchess 'very anxious' and likened it to an 'executioner sharpening their axe'.
It comes after Harry launched a ferocious attack on the press, claiming his wife is being subjected to the same 'powerful forces' his mother Diana had to contend with before her death."
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Post by Lavendel on Feb 18, 2020 14:11:05 GMT
Philip
Footman talesAN ex-royal footman told yesterday how Prince Philip shared secret rendezvous with a mystery woman for nine months after he married the Queen. Servant Norman Barson was the only witness to the three-hour meetings which have remained a secret for almost 50 years. Now, in the wake of a sensational new book about the royal marriage, Mr Barson has described in detail what went on at stately Windlesham Moor, near Ascot, Berks. That was a country home rented by Philip and the then Princess Elizabeth after their marriage in November 1947. Prince Charles was born a year later. Nearly every week, Philip and his female friend would arrive at the house in his MG convertible. The pretty, slim girl would have her face hidden by a beret or a headscarf. Close Gin and orange and beef sandwiches would be sent to the sitting-room where chairs were pulled cosily together around a roaring open fire. Cushions were later found on the floor by staff. Footman Mr Barson, once a Grenadier guardsman now living in retirement in Lancashire with his wife, was told sternly by the Duke of Edinburgh: "Don't forget, Norman, you haven't seen me." Yesterday Mr Barson said: "I never knew the woman's name. But they seemed very close. "She would look longingly into his eyes." Mr Barson added: "While the Queen was at Buckingham Palace, Philip would be down to Windlesham Moor once a week with this girl. www.thefreelibrary.com/They'd+be+alone+for+3+hours+each+week.+Later+we'd+have+to+pick+up+the...-a061308867
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Post by Lavendel on Feb 19, 2020 19:01:15 GMT
UnseenI
David linley divorceElton John tell all book hinted newspaper reports the cause of the divorce 2020: this a translation so there maybe some miswrittings "This is British decency. Or just fear of the law or the wrath of the queen? A farce, the Times mocked, was the judicial ban on naming names in the smoldering extortion scandal. Nothing precise can be read in British newspapers and on British television to find out about the identity of that “third-rate royal” that blackmailers are said to have played badly. Who is the homosexual member of the royal family who was allegedly filmed having oral sex in the palace? What about trading in cocaine? If you want to know, you know: On the Internet, in the foreign press and now also through the interview that a British journalist gave to the American TV channel Fox News. At the center of the extortion scandal is Viscount David Linley. He is a member of the royal family, the eldest son of Princess Margaret and the court photographer Lord Snowdon. Linley is the queen's nephew, a likeable man in his mid-40s with a solid job as a cabinet maker. So far he has not made a great appearance in the gossip columns of the boulevard, and if only with harmless stories: once he made a closet for Elton John and his hundreds of glasses. The recent royal affair has long been a matter for Scotland Yard. On September 11, the British police arrested two men in a London hotel. They were charged with extortion, of course in private. The two detainees are 40-year-old Sean McGuigan and 30-year-old Ian Strachan. Fisherman's son mutates into social lions That 30-year-old main suspect makes a mysteriously dazzling figure in the royal comedy. He announced that he was completely innocent. The alleged extortionist is a man with two names, as the Daily Telegraph revealed. He is the son of a Scottish fishing family with a grandfather from Iceland who received a British order for his service in World War II. After this brave grandfather, he was baptized in 1976: Paul Adalsteinsson. According to the "Telegraph", he grew up in comfortable conditions in drafty Aberdeen. But then his parents separated and Paul Adalsteinsson became Ian Strachan, the Scottish fisherman's son, a London social lion, about whom his father can say little more today than the sentence: "I haven't seen him in a long time". Saddam's lawyer comes into play And the comedy has other characters. Appearance: An Italian lawyer, Giovanni di Stefano. He represents Strachan and is a man from the outside of an accountant, but with a remarkable past. His former clients include the executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and Harold Shipman, the British doctor who is said to have murdered over 200 patients and was sentenced to life imprisonment 15 times for the proven killing of 15 women (Shipman committed suicide in January 2004) , Lawyer di Stefano lets everyone know that his client is at home in the best circles, that he treats princes William and Harry. And Strachan didn't blackmail anyone. Although he owned the compromising video tape, he never contacted the palace. He is said to have been offered EUR 75,000 at the Hilton hotel - against the promise to keep the volume of the volume secret. The press, di Stefano indicated, would have paid much more. But the plot threatens to burst. So what could be seen on the tape could be half as wild. No oral sex with a member of the royal family, just an employee of the royal family who is chatting about the affair with a member of parliament. And there is talk of an action that looks like taking drugs
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Post by Lavendel on Mar 6, 2020 13:37:01 GMT
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Post by Avacyn on Jan 8, 2023 23:26:58 GMT
Well, with Spare coming out, I am sure we are going to see some effects from that book, all right...
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Post by UnseenI on Jan 19, 2023 9:46:44 GMT
Well, with Spare coming out, I am sure we are going to see some effects from that book, all right... As always, you got it right. I still half believe that someone else wrote some of the extracts as a joke! Surely Harry has gone too far. I did laugh a lot at some of it though, and it is inspiring many amusing videos and posts. There is talk of a second volume! |
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