'Finding Freedom' Criticized Over 'Plain Wrong' Details, 'Curious Omissions'
KEY POINTS
- "Finding Freedom" portrays Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as "innocent victims of the wicked Palace," according to journalist Valentine Low
- The biography about the Sussexes, he said, omitted some crucial details
- Low also remarked that Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand's book includes some wrong information about the Sussexes
"Finding Freedom" is finally out and one journalist reviewed the book and called it out for presenting wrong information about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and omitting some important details.
Valentine Low, a journalist for The Times, recently shared his review on royal correspondents Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand's book "Finding Freedom." Low noticed that the book is very detailed, but he considers it not reliable because some details presented in it are wrong, according to him.
"Some of it is just plain wrong. When they flew to Canada to get away from everyone in November last year, it wasn’t on Air Canada, as the authors claim, but a private jet (whoops),” Low wrote.
"The authors use a couple of jobs undertaken by the couple to berate the press, complaining that coverage of their first trip to Wales omitted to point out that the reason they were an hour late was because their train was delayed. Not true: every newspaper said that their train was late," he added.
He also noted that it wasn't true that the Sussexes were "pummeled with criticism" because the coverage during the outing was "overwhelmingly positive." In fact, Daily Mail approved of Markle by writing a report about her passing the initiation "with flying colors.”
Low pointed out how detailed the book is from mentioning the food they eat, Markle’s yoga poses and the designers she wears. However, it fails to cover important facts and instead only has one story to tell — showing Markle and Prince Harry as the “innocent victims.”
"But this book has only one story to tell: how Harry and Meghan are the innocent victims of a wicked Palace and an even more wicked media, and it’s all everyone else’s fault. It cries out for a decent account of how things really fell apart," he wrote.
“However, for a book that sets out to put the record straight, there are curious omissions. There is nothing on the controversy over why they refused to divulge the names of Archie’s godparents, or what happened when she had an apparent meltdown on an official engagement in a market in Fiji. Their decision to set up their Megxit website on the sly without telling any of the royal family is skimmed over,” he added.
During a recent episode of "Good Morning America," Scobie told Deborah Roberts that the royal couple were failed by the institution of the monarchy.
Meanwhile, the book has a high rating on Amazon. Majority of the customers who purchased the book have positive things to say about Scobie and Durand's work.
"Finally! A good, unbiased account of what Meghan went through when she lived in England. I really enjoyed reading the book!!" HappyinMD wrote on the Customer Reviews page.
"This is a pretty well written book. It is a more realistic account of how things were for a black princess living among the so called white elites. And why they left England. The Duke and Duchess have made it clear that they had no input in the writing of this book. And I believe it. It is a little too pro queen for me. But otherwise it’s worth a 5 star review," Kelly Andrada added.
"This book has cleared up so many questions I had that was blurred by the British media. Harry and Meghan have done so much in their short time with the Royals. ... I was happy to see Harry and Meghan leave and spread their wings. Good luck, you two," wrote Karen, who found the book "enlightening."
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