Meghan Markle news latest: Duchess set for UK return with Harry in September with plans for another memorial event
Michael Green
Published Sep 17, 2026
DIANA’S VOICE COACH THAT TURNED HER INTO A CONFIDENT SPEAKER
In November 1955, Stewart Pearce, was asked to meet a young lady who was in need of voice training classes.
Not long after her panorama interview was aired, despite feeling liberated, Diana did not like the way she came across and so was in search of a voice specialist.
By the time Diana sadly passed away, Stewart said he had helped Diana with her transformation into an assertive and confident speaker.
“She had found a way of balancing her private and public self so that there was no change between the two. She could stand on a platform and feel relaxed and confident about whatever it as she needed to say.” Stewart said.
A former actor, turned voice coach and drama teacher, and a former Master of Voice at London’s Globe Theatre, Stewart, now 69, has just published a book, Diana the Voice of Change – something he describes as a “call to arms for women”.
WHAT IS MEGHAN'S BOOK 'THE BENCH' ACTUALLY ABOUT?
Meghan says The Bench is inspired by watching her husband and their son Archie, two.
The former Hollywood actor, 39, plugged her book in chat with a US radio station last month, which was her first interview since giving birth to her second child, Lilibet.
Meghan said the poem that runs through her book is inspired by the relationship between her husband and their son Archie.
MEGHAN MARKLE’S BOOK THE BENCH IS NOT BEING STOCKED AT QUEEN’S ONLINE STORE
THE Duchess of Sussex’s picture book The Bench is not being stocked in the Queen’s online store.
The online Royal Collection Shop boasts a whole “storytime” section of “delightful” children’s books.
They include Paddington at the Palace for £6.99 and even Peppa Pig Meets The Queen for £4.99 But the Duchess of Sussex’s title - which has crashed out of Amazon's top 100 - is not among them.
Meghan, 39, claims it was inspired by a poem she wrote for Harry on his first Father's Day and a "love story" of him and Archie.
The picture book topped the New York Times Bestsellers List for children's picture books but sold just 3,212 copies in the UK its first week since publication on June 8.
