Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reportedly address divorce rumors and book deal

Rumors of Meghan Markle’s post-divorce book spark debates about the Sussexes.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reportedly cannot separate because “their value is in being a couple,” a source told Page Six amid allegations that Markle explored the idea of a post-divorce book.

A Vanity Fair cover story published last week claimed that the Duchess of Sussex’s team had discreetly approached an unnamed publisher to “gauge interest” in the book concept.

However, a source who has worked closely with the couple told Page Six, “Meghan and Harry know that they are tied together, their value is in being a couple — even if they wanted to split, they couldn’t. And honestly, they are obsessed with each other. They are just two narcissists.”

Another insider familiar with the couple's $20 million Penguin Random House deal signed in 2021 stated they had never heard any mention of a book about divorce.

It appears that the much-publicized deal, which was initially reported to include books about “leadership” and “wellness,” has quietly faded after the release of Harry’s best-selling memoir, Spare.

“They are worth more together,” said the publishing insider. “It doesn’t benefit them to be apart — they have all their deals together. I think the Random House deal is much like the Netflix deal: Netflix just said ‘Yes’ to everything because they wanted to get the docu-series [‘Harry & Meghan’]. So they said, ‘Ok, we’ll take the ‘Polo’ show’ and let’s see what happens with Meghan’s lifestyle show.”

Vanity Fair’s source clarified that the proposed “divorce” book was intended to cover the aftermath of a hypothetical split from Harry, not Markle’s previous marriage to Trevor Engelson, whom she divorced in 2014.

In fact, sources told Page Six that Markle avoids discussing Engelson altogether.

Vanity Fair’s report emphasized that the book discussion did not suggest the Sussexes were splitting up but rather aimed to determine if the publisher would “theoretically be interested” in such a project if a divorce were to occur.

According to Vanity Fair, the publisher did not make any offer, and no manuscript was created because there was no divorce to write about.