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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Californian neighbours are “beginning to question” the reasons behind the pair’s media offensive, it has been claimed. While Prince Harry and Meghan are hoping to tell their side of the story and set the record straight through their interviews, Netflix programme and memoir, Montecito residents appear to be interested in the “soap opera” side of the royal row.
One resident in the neighbourhood where Prince Harry and Meghan decided to relocate in the summer of 2020 described the ever “evolving” drama surrounding the fifth-in-line to the throne and his relatives as “interesting”.
Others, however, are said to be wondering why Meghan and Harry have embarked on a very public showdown with the Royal Family.
Sky News reporter Martha Kelner, who spoke to locals from the US, told the camera: “As the TV and book deals mount up, neighbours are beginning to question the motives behind their media offensive.”
One of the residents she interviewed told Ms Kelner: “The story is interesting because it keeps evolving. It’s he said, she said. It makes great television.”
The reporter also visited a local book shop, where co-owner Mary Sheldon expected Montecito residents to be interested in reading Prince Harry‘s first account about his life in his memoir titled Spare – which was released worldwide on January 10.
She said: “I was excited when I found out it was coming.
“I called my publisher and told him to put in an order, it’s one of the books we order by the carton, people are definitely excited about reading it here.”
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Ms Sheldon added customers were more interested in the “soap opera” aspect than the politics.
Meghan and Prince Harry left the Firm as its working members in the spring of 2020, when they also moved with their then only son Archie Harrison to California.
After spending a few months in the Los Angeles home of producer and actor Tyler Perry, Harry and Meghan bought their multi-million worth mansion in the Santa Barbara neighbourhood also counting as celebrity residents Oprah Winfrey, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ellen DeGeneres.
In early 2021, the pair took part in their first tell-all interview with Ms Winfrey, during which they raised allegations against the Royal Family of neglect and racism.
The programme focused on the relationships between the pair, the media and the Royal Family and alleged the Firm “leaked and plated” negative stories against the Sussexes.
More revelations and claims came to light in the past days, as Penguin Random House released on January 10 Harry’s memoir, Spare.
The promotional campaign for the book included a number of interviews done by Harry, three of which were aired between Sunday evening and Monday morning.
On Monday evening, the Duke was in New York to register another chat, this time with The Late Night host Stephen Colbert.
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