The book will be out in a few days, but it’s already causing a stir. Writer Gyles Brandreth will publish a biography of Queen Elizabeth II on December 8, titled Elizabeth: an intimate portrait. According to guardianwhich spreads some excerpts, the author tells from the inside, the arrival of Meghan Markle to the royal family.
Apparently “delighted” to welcome the American actress into the family, the queen nevertheless expressed concern to a friend that Harry seemed “perhaps too smitten” at the start of their marriage.
“Television Nonsense”
Very well disposed towards Meghan Markle, whom she appreciated very much, the queen would have even told her, according to Gyles Brandreth, that she could continue her profession. “You can still be an actress if you want, it’s your job after all.”
The book also evokes the famous interview that the couple gave Oprah Winfrey in 2021, and ensures that the queen was more concerned about Harry’s discomfort than this “nonsense on television”, as she called this devastating interview. In fact, the prince and his wife revealed their difficulties within the royal family.
He would have even defended the couple in front of Andrew, who criticized that interview-confessions and replied: “Doesn’t Sarah have something similar?” In 1996, Sarah Ferguson, then recently divorced from Prince Andrew, had also told the famous American interviewer about her life.
This ‘intimate portrait’ of the Queen also tells that despite the disastrous consequences of the Epstein affair and his connection with Andrés, the Queen has never withdrawn her son’s trust, although she has not shied away from withdrawing his titles and military functions . .
The queen, a fan of “Line of Duty”
The novelist, already the author of two books on the royal family, Felipe and Isabel: portrait of a married couple Y Carlos and Camila: Portrait of a love story published in 2004 and 2005, had access to people very close to the sovereign.
He cites Sir Tony Johnstone-Burt, Master of the Queen’s household, one of whose main missions was to watch the detective series with her. line of duty, whom he was very fond of, but of whom he did not understand all the twists. The queen herself was very critical of the actors who “babble”. “There’s a lot of buzz on TV right now. It’s not my audition,” she said, not without bad faith. This series, according to Johnstone-Burt, distracted her when she found herself alone when Prince Philip died in April 2021.
Source: BFM TV
