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  "textContent": "Tom Bower has courted controversy for his negative biographies of famous figures (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)\n\nA new royal book has sparked a furious reaction from its subjects, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan launched a blistering attack on its ‘deranged’ author, Tom Bower.\n\nThe book, which is being released later this month, claims Queen Camilla once told a friend: ‘Meghan’s brainwashed ‌Harry’.\n\nBetrayal: Power, Deceit and the Fight for the Future of the Royal Family also claims the Prince and Princess of Wales considered Meghan ‘a threat’ in the run-up to the Sussexes’ decision to leave Britain for the US.\n\nHarry and Meghan have hit out at the claims in the new book (Photo by World Health Organization (WHO) / AFP via Getty Images)\n\n##  Sign up for all of the latest stories\n\nStart your day informed with Metro's **News Updates** newsletter or get **Breaking News **alerts the moment it happens.\n\nThe book also says that Prince Harry feared his older brother and future king, William, ‘could remove all the Sussexes’ titles and effectively banish him from Britain’.\n\nResponding to the allegations, a spokesperson for Prince Harry and Meghan said Bower had ‘long crossed the line from criticism into fixation’.\n\nThey added: ‘This is someone who has publicly stated, “the monarchy in fact depends on actually obliterating the Sussexes from our state of life,” language that speaks for itself.\n\n‘He has made a career out of constructing ever more elaborate theories about people he does not know and has never met.\n\n‘Those interested in facts will look elsewhere; those seeking deranged conspiracy and melodrama know exactly where to find him.’\n\nThis is not the royal couple’s first run-in with Bower, who has written controversial books on the UK’s most famous faces.\n\n## Who is Tom Bower?\n\nTom Bower moved from BBC journalist to investigative biographies (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)\n\nTom Bower, 79, is a former BBC Panorama journalist who is known for his unauthorised biographies.\n\nHe left the BBC in 1995 and has written more than 20 books chronicling the lives of Royals, politicians and British tycoons.\n\nHis first works focused on the failure to denazify post war Germany and the hunt for Nazi war criminals.\n\nHe then turned his attention to publishing giant Robert Maxwell and, later, business magnate Richard Branson.\n\nBoth men unsuccessfully sued the author, with Maxwell pursuing him in court on multiple occasions.\n\nBower has sold more than two million books, many of which have been critically acclaimed.\n\nSir Richard Branson was the focus of one of Bower’s books\n(Credits: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)\n\nHis work on corruption in English football, Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football, received the William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize.\n\nNot all of his books have won him enemies. He has said he’s now friends with Simon Cowell and Bernie Ecclestone after writing biographies on both of them.\n\n## What else has Tom Bower written about the royal family?\n\nThe royals have been repeated targets for Bower’s investigative journalism.\n\nOne work published in 2018 – The Rebel Prince -tells the story of Prince Charles’s bid to rehabilitate himself after Princess Diana’s death.\n\nThe highly negative biography was a number one best seller – portraying the now King as vain, cold and out of touch.\n\nIn 2022, Bower has already published a book on Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.\n\nKing Charles was portrayed as vain and out of touch by Bower when he was the Prince of Wales (Picture: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)\n\nTitled Revenge, he wrote about their strained relationship with the Royal Family.\n\nThe book claimed the Duchess of Sussex rejected a suggestion by the Queen and the Prince of Wales that she fly to the US to reconcile with her father.\n\nIn an interview with the Telegraph in 2023, Bower said that book had been his most lucrative and sold more than 300,000 copies in hardback in the UK alone.\n\n******Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk.******\n\n**For more stories like this,****check our news page**.\n\nComment now Comments  Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google Add as preferred source ",
  "title": "Who is Tom Bower, the author who claimed Harry is being ‘brainwashed’ by Meghan?"
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