Royal fans, get ready to add another book to your reading list.
Omid Scobie, royal editor at large of Harperâs Bazaar and Carolyn Durand, an Emmy-award winning producer contributor to Elle and OprahMag.com, are publishing a book about about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. After reports of tell-all interviews first surfaced in April and the bookâs cover leaked over the weekend, the two finally confirmed the book in an announcement on Monday.
The book is titled âFinding Freedom: Harry, Meghan, and the Making of a Modern Royal Familyâ and is set to come out on August 11.
âFor the very first time, âFinding Freedomâ goes beyond the headlines to reveal unknown details of Harry and Meghanâs life together, dispelling the many rumours and misconceptions that plague the couple on both sides of the pond,â the bookâs description reads.
It goes on: âWith unique access and written with the participation of those closest to the couple, âFinding Freedomâ is an honest, up-close, and disarming portrait of a confident, influential, and forward-thinking couple who are unafraid to break with tradition, determined to create a new path away from the spotlight, and dedicated to building a humanitarian legacy that will make a profound difference in the world.â
âThe aim of this book is to portray the real Harry and Meghan, a couple who continue to inspire many around the world through their humanitarian and charitable work but are often inaccurately portrayed,â the authors said in a joint statement.
The two added that their âmission has been motivated by a desire to tell an accurate version of their journey and finally present the truth of misreported stories that have become gospel simply because of the amount of times they have been repeated,â and signed off by thanking their sources.
The book is not an official or endorsed biography from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. It also doesnât claim to feature interviews with Meghan and Harry, though the two authors, particularly Scobie, are said to be extremely close to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Scobie has covered the Sussexes extensively and was one of just three journalists invited to Meghanâs last engagement as a royal, prior to the the coupleâs official step back on March 31. He wrote an emotional â and surprisingly candid â look at the duchessâs final, tearful engagement and goodbye to some Buckingham Palace staff.
The book will be published by Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, which recently published Jessica Simpsonâs bombshell memoir, âOpen Book,â and Carrie Underwoodâs book âFind Your Path.â
And just because there isnât an official sign off from Harry and Meghan now doesnât mean there might not be in the future. After many years of speculation, Andrew Morton revealed in 1997 that the main source for his 1992 biography of Princess Diana, called âDiana, Her True Story,â was the late royal herself. He admitted Dianaâs involvement one month after she died in a 1997 car crash in Paris.
In one of Meghanâs first projects as a royal, the duchess collaborated on and wrote the forward for a cookbook, put together by the women of the Hubb Community Kitchen. All proceeds from the book, called âTogether: Our Community Kitchen,â went to ensuring that the kitchen could stay open seven days a week.