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Royals at War: The Untold Story of Harry and Meghan's Shocking Split with the House of Windsor Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Dylan Howard (Author), Andy Tillett (Author), David Linski (Narrator),

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Reveals shocking revelations about Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and the British royal family - and the divisive rifts between them.

This explosive exposé, Royals at War, takes listeners inside a riven Buckingham Palace to provide the definitive account of the unfolding abdication crisis of 2020 - dubbed Megxit - during which the duke and duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, became royal outcasts.

Through revealing interviews with royal family insiders, friends, aides, historians, royal watchers, and others with intimate knowledge of the House of Windsor, this tell-all book looks back at the events, motives, and crises that led to Harry (sixth in line to the throne) dramatically abandoning his birthright - in a move not seen for nearly a century, when King Edward VIII also gave up the crown for the woman he loved as Europe teetered on the brink of fascism and war. Like Edward and Wallis Simpson, the catalyst for the scandal here is also an ambitious, controversial American woman.

Dylan Howard, best-selling author of Diana: Case Solved and Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales, charts how Meghan’s relationship with Harry was viewed as controversial from the start - and how her brief honeymoon with the British public began to sour shortly after she and Harry announced in November 2018 that they would be leaving Kensington Palace to move to Frogmore Cottage, an hour outside London. As senior royals expressed disapproval, the public at first seemed to enjoy the royal spat, with many still supporting Team Meghan - until it emerged that the bill to renovate Frogmore Cottage to Meghan’s lavish expectations would be three million dollars...and be picked up by British taxpayers.

Finally, in a move nobody saw coming, Harry announced he was turning his back on the role he had been groomed for since birth - giving up his HRH title, repaying the renovation costs of Frogmore Cottage, abandoning his royal duties, and leaving Britain for good. Buckingham Palace reeled.

Howard’s unique access and insight into this constitutional crisis will not only address the tensions and tantrums behind closed palace doors, but seek to answer the questions many are still asking:

Has Prince Harry ever really recovered from the death of his mother, Diana - and the resentment he feels against the institution that tried to destroy her?
Why did Meghan, once hailed as a breath of fresh air, rile up the monarchy?
Why did she refuse to conform to royal conventions in the way that Catherine did before her?
Did the public and media criticism of Meghan go too far? And just how valid are the accusations of racism?
How did these modern royals treat the tabloids differently to tradition? And did it backfire?
What next for Harry and Meghan? And how will they - and the institution they’ve turned their back on - react to their new lives outside the confines of the Palace and free from the strict codes and conventions that bind all members of the royal family?

Caught in a trap by virtue of a life entombed in a gilded cage, Royals at War answers these questions and more...and reveals how Harry’s infatuation with Meghan and desire to modernize the monarchy could yet end in disaster for the House of Windsor. Played out against the cataclysm of the British tabloid’s laser focus on the duchess’ every movement - for good or ill - this is the true story of Harry and Meghan’s split from the establishment...and perhaps just the beginning of a whole new monarchy, redefined for the modern age.

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Listening Length	12 hours and 16 minutes
Author	Dylan Howard, Andy Tillett
Narrator	David Linski
Audible.com.au Release Date	05 January 2021
Publisher	Blackstone Publishing
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08R6JGNCT
Best Sellers Rank	17,325 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 23 in Biographies of Royalty (Audible Books & Originals) 67 in Great Britain History 129 in Biographies of Royalty (Books)

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Nita

Birthday Present

Reviewed in Australia on 30 August 2020

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My mother is a real book worm, so I got her to read the book to make sure it was worthy enough to give as a gift,
This book worm spoke with great respect for the soucing of excellent collective information written, and in general, I cannot put this book to one side.

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Peter

There's nothing new or explosive in this book.

Reviewed in Australia on 29 November 2020

It's far too expensive for what is just a rehash of other people's writing.

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Jackson Jones

Absurd Markle Hagiography

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2020

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For two people who pride themselves on their “investigative journalism” they’ve done no investigating at all. I am halfway through the book and they have just opined that, in contrast to Kate prior to her marriage to William, Markle had “charity coming out of her ears”. Who on earth told them that? Meghan Markle did no charity work whatsoever until, aged 33, she engaged the services of a PR company who organised a few charity events for her to help raise her non-existent public profile. If you add up the small amount of “charity work” she actually did it amounts to less than two weeks worth. Ever boastful & painfully narcissistic, she chose to characterise these very few achievements as “lifelong activism” but there’s no sensible reason why these sychophantic clowns should give it credence. One speech to the UN (about herself) one speech to One Young World (about herself), one short trip to Rwanda followed by a glowing self-penned article (about herself) and three days in India learning about an initiative she had previously claimed in the media she’d set up by herself, but hadn’t. That’s it. That is all this self-promoting woman has ever done...and this is “charity coming out of her ears” & “lifelong activism” on behalf of women? Get real.

And they are flat out wrong when they claim that the Queen “offered” Archie a title and an HRH, but was turned down. Archie automatically has a title as the son of a Royal Duke (he is the Earl of Dumbarton - he’s just not styled that way) and he is not entitled to an HRH until Charles is on the throne, at which point he’ll automatically be a prince & an HRH. The Queen would have had to change the law to give him one at birth, and why should she? Perhaps this book is a good example of why Americans shouldn’t write books about the British royal family.

And I have to assume these two men are American? If they are British then shame on them for painting Markle’s desperation to weigh in on political matters & being prevented by the royals as somehow unfair.. The British Royal Family are NON-POLITICAL BY LAW. Don’t they understand that? Meghan Markle wanted the platform her marriage gave her but had not the slightest intention of playing by any of the rules everyone else has to. Her wings were not clipped by anyone...she gladly yanked them off by herself in return for worldwide fame, a fabulous wardrobe, a £35m wedding and a free house. So she wanted to weigh in on issues she probably knows nothing about? Tough. She should have made a play for Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk instead.

And yet again the absurd & insutling charge that the British media are racists. 99% of that woman’s coverage in all the tabloids, broadsheets & magazines was glowingly positive. Her mother (a black woman) has taken on a saintly, wise woman persona thanks purely to her coverage in the “racist” British press. No, Markle’s rudeness, overwhelming sense of entitlement, showboating & hypocrisy is what has bought her negative press articles. She and that non-entity she married are the architects of their own downfall - and for these idiot writers not to see that is ridiculous.

Don’t bother with this book unless you want to be dripped in Markle sugar. It’s a hagiography, not a genuine expose.

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L. Ellis

Oh dear!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 June 2020

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Only a few pages in and already he says that King Edward VII abdicated and calls the Queen Her Royal Highness. Doesn’t give me much hope for the accuracy of the rest of the book!

Continuing reading. There are so many factual errors. This is a really sloppy book.

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LindseyB

The authors clearly don't know their subjects

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 July 2020

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I've only read 5% of the book and already it claims that Harry was 3rd in line to the throne, and then that Christmas is spent at Buckingham Palace whereas the family go to Sandringham. Utter tosh.

I'm now at 70% and it hasn't got any better. I thought I was buying a well researched book about H&M (not the clothing store!). Where the Middletons came from wasn't in the title nor was William and Kate meeting/splitting up/getting back together/moving to Anglesey blah blah blah - and it's still full of errors. Harry's course at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst was postponed due to injury then we read that he was going to Sandringham. The author,s and their subjects if they had anything to do with it, should be embarrassed. Terrible.

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This book is a quick cash in.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 July 2020

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Was looking forward to reading but so many mistakes and wrong information makes it read like a quick cash in book. Really not recommended.

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Mauve Peace

Old wine in a new bottle

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 July 2020

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This book has obviously been written to make a quick buck. Superficial, zero research oe depth. For example, they glibly state Meghan suffered race discrimination at school. If they had done research at all they would have discovered 66% of the school was 'ethnic minority' so the idea she was 'the only black face' is laughable.

They quote the 'bleeding obvious' as in Victoria Arbiter saying the pair missed a trick in not posing for baby photos early and would have endeared them more to the public. They didn't bother to delve into the question, in that case WHY did they snub the public.

What really annoyed and bored me was that there then followed a potted bio of the entire royal family all the way through to the death of Diana and how Carole met Michael Middleton. YAWN. Nothing you haven't read a million times before.

At £14 for the Kindle download, this is just someone out to make a quick buck out of 'cut and paste'. No research, no insight, no depth, nothing new.

SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!

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