In the book, Scobie and Durand describe a hectic fitting in the days running up to the wedding that involved Meghan, Kate, wedding dress designer Clare Waight Keller, and two assistants from Givenchy. There was no pre-wedding moment between Meghan and Kate Middleton that ended in tears. She’s bright, and she’s self-aware.” A friend of Meghan told the reporters that she has come to regard Charles as a “second father.” Though Charles walked Meghan down the aisle during the May 2018 wedding, reports in the months that followed claimed the pair had tension, with the Daily Mail adding that his nickname for her was “Tungsten,” meaning “tough and unbending.” “She’s a sassy, confident, beautiful American,” the friend told Scobie and Durand. According to one of Charles’s friends, he is fond of Meghan’s personality.

Prince Charles really is a fan of Meghan.

Some previous reports had suggested that Violet von Westenholz, a fashion PR director, slipped Harry’s phone number to Meghan, while Harry once told the BBC that Meghan “just tripped into his life.” After Meghan and Harry hit it off the first night, Anderson, who also introduced Meghan to Nonoo in 2014, arranged for the pair to have a private date at the club the next night, where they entered through a service entrance. Nonoo, one of Meghan’s closest friends, and Anderson, the global membership director of Soho House, planned a group hang with a few friends at the club’s London location while Meghan was in town for Wimbledon and taking meetings. Who really introduced Meghan and Harry? Though the Sussexes haven’t told the story of how they met publicly, Finding Freedom makes the case that Misha Nonoo and Markus Anderson were responsible for planning their first date in July 2016. So while the book is an explicit attempt to tell the story from Meghan and Harry’s perspective, their attention to detail means that plenty of tabloid tall tales get a skeptical second look-and a few of them really do turn out to be true. “Our mission has been motivated by the desire to present the truth of misreported stories that have become gospel simply because of the amount of times they have been repeated,” they write.

They state that they spoke to over 100 sources, including friends, current and former staff, charity representatives, and even a few times with the couple themselves at events and informal situations, and subjected all their information to strict fact-checking standards. In an author’s note at end of their new royal biography, Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family, Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand provide a bit of insight into how they reported their bombshell look behind the scenes of the years Prince Harry and Meghan Markle spent in the royal family.

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