Prince Harry’s highly anticipated memoir will now not be published until next year due to the royal mourning period following the Queen’s death, it has been reported.
The tell-all book has cast a long shadow over the Royal Family and was initially slated for release in ‘late 2022’, with expectations it would come out in time for Christmas.
But the death of Queen Elizabeth II last week has reportedly thrown the plans into even more uncertainty.
King Charles announced the Royal Family will remain in mourning until seven days after Her Majesty’s funeral on Monday, September 19.
According to protocol, official duties are then reintroduced gradually and where appropriate, with personal projects placed on the backburner.
A source close to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex told The Telegraph the book will no longer be released as planned as the couple observe the mourning period.
It is likely to be pushed back to next year, the newspaper reports.
The manuscript is understood to be finished and approved by lawyers.
But this delay could give the duke time to update it with new chapters about his grandmother’s death and the aftermath which has seen the couple reunited with his family in their grief.
Neither the King nor the Prince of Wales are thought to have had any sight of the book’s contents.
Harry announced the publishing deal last summer, promising the book would be an ‘accurate and wholly truthful’ account of his life.
The duke, who also pledged to donate the proceeds to charity, said the memoir will be written ‘not as the prince I was born but as the man I have become’.
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