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JR Moehringer: who's the celebrity ghostwriter behind Prince Harry's tell-all book?". Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 20 July 2021 . Retrieved 20 July 2021. Muir, Ellie (10 January 2023). "Prince Harry received 'cold-blooded' Christmas present from Princess Margaret". The Independent. Archived from the original on 11 January 2023 . Retrieved 10 January 2023. In one of his interviews Harry expressed that one of his goals in sharing some of the details he shared was to remind people that “you are not alone.” Talking about all of this helps reduce stigma on so many levels. If this had been fiction, I might have given it 4 stars. It’s actually very well written, and it reads almost like a villain’s origin story, which is always interesting. But since this is a memoir, I got annoyed by how bratty Harry is throughout it. He complains about everything and uses his oh-so-tragic upbringing as excuse to be horrid. He keeps using “the spare” as a crutch, as though being “the spare” should entitle him to something because life had handed him such a bad fate. At one point he even complains that he’s only 3rd to the throne. If I didn’t hate him before, I would now.

Gordon, Bryony (13 January 2023). " 'This is not about trying to collapse the monarchy, this is about trying to save them from themselves' ". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 13 January 2023 . Retrieved 13 January 2023. a b Ward, Victoria; Rayner, Gordon (6 January 2023). "Duke of Sussex accused of 'hypocrisy' for exposing personal Royal family struggles". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 6 January 2023 . Retrieved 6 January 2023. Through the first third of the book, I felt that advanced leaks from the memoir were taken out of context and that his love of his father and brother shine through. By the end, it is clear that love is still there and strong, despite the gloves being off, but that Harry is choosing to protect his own family (his wife and children) in a way that he was never chosen and protected. (These warm fuzzies do *not* extend all the way to Camilla.)Avery, Rachel (6 January 2023). "Why Prince Harry is forbidden from being laid to rest with his late mother Princess Diana". Hello!. Archived from the original on 6 January 2023 . Retrieved 6 January 2023. I have a spare Spare': Readers get Prince Harry memoir days early – with one sent two copies". Sky News. 9 January 2023. Archived from the original on 22 January 2023 . Retrieved 21 January 2023. Higgins, Charlotte (9 January 2023). "Spare by Prince Harry review – a flawed attempt to reclaim the narrative". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 January 2023 . Retrieved 11 January 2023.

Some readers will feel empathy for Harry’s statement that the RF will someday regret not being there for him during the second most difficult period of his life because they failed to defend him publicly. Yet they DO NOT defend themselves, their wives, and the wider family because it is their motto to ‘never complain, never explain’. Not some elaborate plan to oust a couple that could have offered so much. Not a case of treating couples differently as they would have you believe. Perhaps the RF need to reevaluate this motto they live by. Perhaps not because by in large it has prevented them from being embroiled in petty skirmishes with the media, that Harry himself seems intent on having when he’s not using them to support his book or to his own ends. Instead, they have risen above it and not challenged the stories, and if Harry really believes the RF would invest time in sharing stories with the press over lipgloss, a flower girls dress or whether a prince should wear a beard - then I fear for him. So, by publishing this bitter book that is heavily weighted against and critical of William, Harry has likely created the second most difficult time in Williams life and this course of action was deliberate and venomous. You are right, there will be regrets someday and it will be for writing this book. Hopefully you have now exhausted your bile. Now ‘spare’ us any more of this!!!All in all, there is too much to write. This book is nothing special, nor is it terrible. It is simply dull. The monarchy relies on fiction. It is a constructed reality, in which grown-up people are asked to collude in the notion that a human is more than a human – that he or she contains something approaching the ineffable essence of Britishness. Once, this fiction rested on political and military power, supported by a direct line, it was supposed, to God. Nowadays it relies on the much frailer foundations of habit, the mysteries of Britain’s unwritten constitution, and spectacle: a kind of symbolism without the symbolised. Ceremonials such as the late queen’s funeral are not merely decorative; they are the institution’s means of securing its continuance. The monarchy is theatre, the monarchy is storytelling, the monarchy is illusion. In the book, Harry claimed that his stepmother Camilla had leaked details of her private conversation with his brother William to the press. Speaking to The Telegraph, sources close to Camilla mentioned that she was not behind the leak and was "furious" when she discovered that details of her first meeting with William were published in the press. [125] She had discussed the meeting with her top aide Amanda MacManus whose husband, a media executive, shared the information with a former colleague, who in turn leaked the story to a newspaper. [125] Camilla released a public statement at the time, announcing that MacManus had "resigned" following an investigation. [125] In response to Harry's claim that Camilla had played "the long game" with "a campaign aimed at marriage, and eventually the crown," Camilla's son and Harry's stepbrother Tom Parker Bowles stated "I think change happens but I don't care what anyone says – this wasn't any sort of end game. She married the person she loved and this is what happened." [126] a b c d Sussex, Prince Harry, Duke of (2023). Spare. Bantam Books. ISBN 978-0-85-750479-1. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) The rest of the book is basically Harry implying he's somehow now "better" than the rest of the cruel, racist, corrupt, criminal, bloodthirsty royal institution he used to be a part of (and in reality still is).