Royal Editor REBECCA ENGLISH has dismissed the claim that the Palace “supplied” hit pieces to the media as part of a “war” against Meghan are false. She also stated that In fact, “I disregarded Harry’s openly unpleasant and impolite behavior toward the media”.
Rebecca English Dismisses Claims Against The Palace
Rebecca English continued by saying that ;”The suggestion that negative stories were routinely ‘fed’ to the media by Buckingham Palace as part of a ‘war’ against Meghan, or to negate less favorable stories about other senior royals, is categorically untrue.
“I Never Heard a Negative Word Said About The Couple” Royal Editor, Rebecca English Says As She Dismisses Meghan And Harry’s Claims Against The Royal Family
Well, because as a long-standing royal correspondent on the country’s biggest-selling daily newspaper, I can only presume that those stories would have, on occasion, been leaked to me. And if my job was as easy as sitting by the phone waiting for a friendly man (or woman) in a grey suit to ring me, then I wouldn’t be the walking candidate for Botox that I so badly am”.
She added” I can honestly say that I never heard a negative word said about the couple until at least six months after their marriage – and then not from anyone inside the palace walls. Indeed the opposite was true. As the trickle of hints that all was not well in their household became a torrent, palace aides did nothing but firefight for the couple. Staff, they insisted, were leaving for personal reasons or because they had an exciting new opportunity to pursue.
Never because of Meghan. Even when I witnessed her round on a member of her team, leaving this individual in tears of humiliation, I was told – with a straight face – that it had merely been a ‘security incident .I had stand-up rows with palace staff when I suggested they had been economical with the truth and my fact-checking calls regarding stories I intended to publish were met with open sighs of frustration.
Harry‘s frankly rude and unprofessional behavior towards the Press was also never reflected in my copy. The impressive charity work he was doing deserved to be the star of the show. I have always had great sympathy for the prince’s historic hostility to the media in general and wanted to try to improve relations.
When, for example, Harry fell off his polo pony during the match and appeared to have a very un-regal tantrum on the field, it was me who approached his team to say that it was clear something else was wrong and would it not be helpful to explain what, so that the incident wasn’t presented in a negative light”.
“This was quite a daring move, I have to say, in the normally rather formal relations between the palace and Press. My request resulted in Harry ringing me from the airport in Barbados on an aide’s phone to say that yes, he had been bet a significant amount of money for his charity, Sentebale, not to fall off and he was upset and frustrated at losing them that much-needed money.
Instead of a story regarding our favorite petulant prince, my quotes ran around the world about what a good egg Harry was – and, from memory, the businessman concerned stuck to his side of the deal and paid out regardless”. The royal Editor said
“The suggestion that I might be persuaded not to run a story about another member of the royal family by being offered something far more diverting about the Duchess of Sussex (or indeed Harry) can only come from someone utterly ignorant of the media.The royal households have always respected the fact that I may, on occasions, run stories that show their principals in a less than flattering light (indeed, one of my less helpful stories about Prince Charles prompted a major diplomatic incident) and that is part of the role of a free Press.
The important thing is that it is accurate and, importantly, reflects their side of the story – something that the Sussexes’ refusal to allow their press team to even speak to most British media makes frustratingly hard to do”. She concluded. The pair have leveled numerous complaints about how the Palace and the media have treated them, with Meghan alleging that she was “fed to the wolves.”
The “last straw in a campaign of bad, horrible publicity about her,” according to Ms. Afia, was a string of pieces detailing Meghan’s deteriorating relationship with her father, Thomas.
Aides at the Palace, according to Harry, were “happy to lie” to protect his older brother William but wouldn’t tell the truth to shield him and his wife. This was stated in an earlier trailer for the tell-all documentary. The couple’s multi-million-pound contract with Netflix, which they signed after giving up their jobs as working royals, includes the six-part series Harry & Meghan, which has caused a lot of stir online and in the royal family world.
