Revenge Quotes

“opinion she was being ‘maliciously’ depicted by her discarded friend ‘as a conniving social climber who had her sights on snagging a prince ever since she was in high school.’361 Priddy’s assessment”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors

“At the precise moment set out in the timetable, Meghan arrived at the chapel in a Rolls-Royce, the same vehicle that had carried Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee and the Duke of Windsor’s wife, to her husband’s funeral in 1972. The official’s choice was deliberate. As she stepped out of the limousine, Meghan’s bridal train was caught. The escorting officer who opened the door offered no help. The explanation foreshadowed what was to come. After her rudeness during the rehearsal the previous day, explained an officer, no one had any feelings of goodwill towards the bride.”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors

“young Harry was known to his mother’s staff as a contrarian who did the opposite of what he was told. As he grew up he became increasingly undisciplined. His father and his wider family watched helplessly as the boy refused to behave and rejected education. After he unsuccessfully tried to pass his entrance exam to Eton, his relations recognised that Harry’s ignorance was spilling over into arrogance. That reality was concealed during Diana’s funeral.”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“As she would later admit, she ‘occasionally set up a paparazzi photo or let info slip out to the press’.135”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“The Sussexes were cheered for urging manufacturers to donate free vaccines to poor countries. ‘The ultra-wealthy pharmaceutical companies are not sharing the recipes to make them,’ Harry told the crowd. ‘Recipes’ is the word he used.”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors

“Booked for the film, she arrived in London amid acrimony that her demand for first-class transatlantic fares and luxury accommodation had been rejected.”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors

“Meghan, said Oprah, had been the target of ‘constant criticism [and] blatant sexist and racist remarks by British tabloids’. As she spoke, the screen was covered by a spread of apparently racist headlines in the Daily Mail and other British newspapers. The word ‘niggling’ was highlighted as causing offence, although critics noted the sixteenth-century Scandinavian origin of the word has no connection to race.”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors

“As Meghan carried on whispering with excitement, Nelthorpe-Cowne interrupted, ‘Do you know what you’re doing? Do you know anything about him?’ Meghan replied, ‘I’ve googled Harry. I’ve gone deeply into his life.’ Nelthorpe-Cowne was left in no doubt that Meghan had carefully researched every aspect of Harry and his past life. She understood precisely the man she was meeting:”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“To the villagers’ surprise, after Meghan was filmed with the children playing under the clean water bursting from the tap, she disappeared with Gabor Jurina. For hours Jurina photographed the perfectly coiffured actress hugging, squeezing and smiling with the village children. Each pose was followed by a change of clothing. ‘Meghan is a true humanitarian,’ Lara Dewar would say. Speaking of Meghan’s ‘authenticity’, Dewar praised her involvement with the children, letting them sit on her lap for the photographer.191 Once she returned to the village, Meghan was filmed admiring children painting images of their lives on paper supplied by the charity. The Watercolor Project, conceived by Matt Hassell’s staff, illustrated the value of the charity’s work to supply clean water. Strangely, Dewar would wrongly claim that Meghan was the ‘creator’ of the Project.192 Throughout the four-day trip Meghan was impeccably considerate to the accompanying team. She ensured there would be no repeat of her UN experience.193”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“Her agency had arranged for Meghan to stay for free at the five-star Dorchester in Park Lane. Although she was unknown, Meghan insisted that she be registered using an alias. Soon after the booking was confirmed, Meghan announced that she could not stay in that hotel. The owner, the Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah – whose Dorchester Collection included the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles and the Le Meurice in Paris – had recently suggested that adulterers and homosexuals should be punished according to sharia law; and that women who had abortions should be publicly flogged. Another hotel willing to provide free accommodation in return for Meghan agreeing to promote it was found. ‘She was protective of her image,’ said Nelthorpe-Cowne,”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“my name is recognised, my star meter is rising, my life is changing.”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist.’158”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“This type of work feeds my soul.”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“In her fantasy, the unknown actress cast herself as a celebrity coping with the chore of recognition and being pestered for photos.117 In reality, little had changed since she left school.”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“Marrying a ‘mercurial, dramatic, shouty and difficult’ actress who demanded a role in his films had been a challenge.110”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“Meghan has outgrown you, just as she outgrew me.”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“Don’t give it five minutes if you’re not gonna give it five years.”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“She always fought, as Sonia Ardakani noticed, ‘tooth and nail for the things she wanted in life’.”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“Maria Pollia, her school’s theology teacher, remembered that Meghan was ‘unusually compassionate’. Thomas Markle could also take credit for the observation by the school’s head teacher,”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“Until recently, she never suggested suffering any sense of exclusion.”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“There are serious doubts that Meghan saw any violence, not even the minor looting in a store near the ABC studio. In her absence the riots spread to Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards. After five days the curfew was lifted and they returned to Los Angeles. Meghan drove past burnt-out buildings, though no houses near her home were damaged. More than 20 years later Meghan recalled a different experience: ‘I remember the curfew and I remember rushing back home and on that drive home, seeing ash fall from the sky and smelling the smoke and seeing it billow out of buildings and seeing people run out of buildings carrying bags and looting.’22 She also saw ‘men in the back of a van just holding guns and rifles’. Equally memorable was a familiar tree outside her father’s home ‘completely charred. And those memories don’t go away.’23”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“Directing the other girls to bow and intone to her ‘Your Royal Highness’, she had been influenced after watching a tape of Princess Diana’s fairytale wedding.”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“Tom Junior invented the story that his father had won $750,000 in the California State Lottery. There was no lottery ‘win’ but Thomas did give Tom Junior money to start a flower shop and bought Samantha a car.”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“Although Thomas knew that Meghan’s letter had not influenced the executives’ decision – there was no evidence that her letter was even read – he encouraged her conviction that the change was her personal victory.”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

“Meghan said that at the early meetings she knew nothing about Harry. Without a blink, she declared that she had done no research about Harry before the blind date.”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors

“married and a child was born in Malta in 1862. To give the story greater attraction, Mary Bird was said to have been employed as a cook in 1856 at Windsor Castle. Harman had no reason to question Meghan or her suggestion that she travel to Malta with Gina Nelthorpe-Cowne. Elle”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors

“wellness. During her time in Malta, she did not speak”
― Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors