It may have been a (announced) sales success, but Shootthe book of prince Harry, it certainly didn’t appeal to everyone. His neighbors in Montecito certainly snubbed him. Mary Sheldonwho runs the bookshop in the famous Californian neighborhood where many stars live tecolate, he declared to The Guardian to have sold just thirty copies. A real flop, but Mrs. Sheldon has got a precise idea of the thing: “I think most people here think of it as a soap opera.”
The ingredients, moreover, are not lacking, at least from Harry’s point of view. The son who grows up with an affectionate father, a wicked stepmother who creeps into family life and takes the place of his mother who died tragically, a brother-rival and even a grandmother queen. There is material for more than one series. An indifference that did not strike Shoot in Britain, where people are much more interested in the royal family and its members.
After the bombshell revelations and the exploits of the first few days, however, the concrete consequences are starting to appear: the popularity of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle is in sharp decline. If at the beginning of their love story they liked and were supported by many, who saw them as an opportunity for the royal family to open up to the new, now most of the British hate them.
To confirm it data, not chatter. According to a survey carried out by YouGov, only 26% of Britons have a positive opinion of the prince, the lowest level since 2011, when the market research firm began monitoring the royal family. Almost two thirds of Britons, 64% of the total, have a negative opinion of the fifth in line of succession to the throne.
If Harry thought he was bringing English and non-English to his side with the publication of his memoir, he made a major blunder. After the clamor of the first hour he doesn’t seem to have benefited from the book at all, except for economic proceeds, of course. A consequence that, albeit to a lesser extent, is also affecting his brother William and Kate Middleton. However, they remain the most loved royals of all, even in the United States. Which is not true at all for the dukes of Sussex, whose presence at the coronation of Charles III is by no means a given.
- Meghan Markle, who was “suspicious” of Harry’s book bomb
- Spare effect, William and Kate Middleton lose consensus among their subjects
- Harry and the “first tears” for mother Diana (17 years after the funeral)
Source: Vanity Fair
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