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Any claim that this book did not use its subjects as sources is absurd. It reads suspiciously as though it is straight out of Meghan Markle’s mouth. It is extremely sycophantic. A fair biography would highlight its subject’s strengths and weaknesses. This book is overflowing with praise for Meghan—the most beautiful woman Harry had ever seen, always more conscientious and hard-working than her peers, just shining brighter than everyone else. Any life failure was someone else’s fault, for example, her first husband’s lack of support for her career and her rising “celebrity” is what led to the divorce. The book concedes that Harry had his wild, regrettable moments as a young man, such as the Nazi costume and the Las Vegas “Crown Jewels” incident, but insists that he had matured into a war hero and humanitarian by the time he met Meghan. Yet some of the book’s claims about its subjects’ many personal qualities seem at odds with their behavior. For example, as a prince, Harry had learned to be cautious and not to rush in when it came to women, yet then he whisks Meghan off to Africa for their third date. And both Harry and Meghan are humanitarians, concerned about poverty in Africa—one of the reasons it’s such a special place for them—yet for their first visit to Africa, they stay in remote luxury, blissfully distanced from human suffering. But these inconsistencies are apparently lost on the authors. Harry and especially Meghan remain perfect and blameless. Everyone else is at fault for pushing them into their current exile in Montecito. Prince William was a snob; the Duchess of Cambridge was cold; courtiers were racist; the night nanny was unprofessional; the British press was vicious. In short, this book is valuable only in laying out Harry and Meghan’s perspectives—or at least the version of events they want the public to believe. And yet, the book confirms many of the nastier tabloid accounts about them, if in a sanitized narrative that seeks, unsuccessfully, to excuse the couple of any wrongdoing.