Noorilhuda’s Reviews > Spare > Status Update

(Queen's death day, H remembering his last convo with her:) Four days earlier, chatted to granny on the phone, her health of course, the trouble at No.10, the (___) games. She was sorry at not being able to attend.

(Reached Balmoral, greeted by Anne. Charles, William (and Camilla) were not around Balmoral when he came, nor when he left.)

15 hrs. 44 min.s: Pa said I was welcome at Balmoral, but he didn’t want her. He started to lay out his reason which was nonsensical and disrespectful and I wasn’t having it. “Don’t ever speak about my wife that way.” He stammered, apologetic.

What relief we (H & M) thought, no longer having to worry about timing, protocol, journalists at the front gate.

The only difference was that Meg and I were upfront about it. We chose an interviewer who was above reproach and we didn’t once hide behnd phrases like palace sources. We let the world see the words coming out of our mouths. I looked at the gothic ruin. What’s the point? Willy was still talking. And Pa was talking over him and I could no longer hear a word they said.

I failed to see how my speaking to Oprah was any different than what my family and staff had done for decades? Briefing the press, palnting stories. And what about the endless books on which they cooperated starting with Pa’s crypto-biography with Jonathan Dimbleby or Camilla’s collaboration with (inaudible).

A month earlier Meg and I had done an interview with Oprah Winfrey….since leaving Britain the attacks on us were increasing exponentially. We had to try something to make it stop. Being silent wasn’t working. Several close mates and beloved figures in my life () how could you reveal such things about your family?

15 hrs. 30 min.s: I’d been walking with Pa and Willy for half an hour but it felt like one of those long marches the military put me through…….They brought up my hacking lawsuit because it directly affected them….still hadn’t asked about Meg. “Suicide mission” Pa mumbled. “Maybe, but its worth it.” I’d soon prove the press were not only liars, but lawbreakers, and some of them thrown in jail.

Miscarriage. (he blames Daily Mail’s pursuit of M’s 4 friends who spoke on her behalf to People Magazine and M staying up late to ‘protect’ their identity, that’s when she started bleeding)

[M purchased an ornament with Queen’s face on it and hung it on the christmas tree. H liked it]

They made it sound as if there was an agreement between us….we released a statement of our own (service is universal)…..this new slapdown from the palace was like petrol on a bonfire.… we were villified everyday on social media (presumably sanctioned by palace, etc.)

15 hrs. 21 min.s: Feb. 2021. They took it all away, I thought even my military associations. (No longer Captain of Marine blah blah or wear ceremonial military uniform). I told myself they could never take away my real uniform or my real military status. But furthermore, we will no longer be doing any service for the Queen.