On the 10th January 2023 four months after the queens passing. Her grandson Harry decided to release a tell all memoir of his life.
On the first impression the title itself called Spare is an odd title for a book. The title is based on something people used to compare between William as being the heir and Harry as the Spare, It's an unhealthy thing to do is compare the 2 brothers but it was according to Harry his father who first refers him as the spare by saying to Diana at the time of Harry's birth "wonderful now you've given me a heir and a spare, my work here is done" That comment raised the question as to how Harry knew this was said. Did he make it up? Did his mother tell him as a child? Did Charles tell him once he was an adult?
There are a number of points in this book that I'd like to point out:
Harry wanted a private life with his growing family in america but this isn't being private if you are telling family secrets in a book. There were stuff that was said in the book that was actually out of order. He decided to give out private conversations when at a funeral.
Back in April 2021 after The Duke Of Edinburgh's funeral Harry breached the privacy of his father and brother and talked about a conversation he had with them hours after they buried Prince Philip. According to Harry his brother William nearly attacked him about what happened a month before with the Oprah interview. William reportedly said "do you swear on our mothers life" to harry that was a trigger word that stopped all three of them in their tracks. The other point about this particular event was the fact Harry spoke of what his words were to his sons hours after burying his own father.
According to Harry his father pleaded to his sons "Please boys don't make my final years a misery" now to write that at Charles's most vulnerable moment just hours after his father's funeral isn't right. He was probably wasn't thinking straight and was obviously in an emotional state. The death of his father hit him quite hard and he even went to his welsh residence alone the same day as the funeral.
The other problem with the breached privacy came at the epilogue of the book at the end where he was talking about his grandmothers death and why he arrived late. It turns out on the day the late Queen passed his father Prince Charles was phoning him with that came up as a unknown number to say that his grandmother's health was deteriorating and if he can come up to be with her. Well Harry and his wife were finding flights after cancelling their event for Well Child Harry got another call from his father saying that only he should make the flight up not Meghan.
Of course Harry was annoyed with his father that his wife couldn't come up and started to have an argument over it. Charles whose life was about to change was having an argument with Harry over Meghan was wasting time that he could of spent with his mother. This is the reason why he didn't make the flight with William and his uncles resulting in missing their mother in her final moments. Charles was giving his reasons to him about why he didn't want Meghan there and Harry said to him "Don't you ever talk about my wife like that again"
Harry discusses how he and William went into a fight because William told Harry how Meghan was rude and difficult. It was in London 2019 and Harry said that William knocked him onto the floor and hit the dog bowl and broke his necklace. Siblings fight all of the time and it was no surprise that even royal siblings can fight too as it shows how normal they are.
There are very disturbing stories in this book too for example Harry decided to either fantasise or tell a true story about killing his own father. He reveals that he ordered a typhoon after his father after he visits him at the training site. Charles supposedly went up to the site where his son was training for Afganistan. After Charles praised how much of a good job he is doing he left in his grey audi harry ordered the typhoon to go towards his car and almost smashing his windows. Harry then reveals how he 'Spared' him from a tragic accident. If it was a dream then it is a very very dark dream.
Catherine, The Princess Of Wales did not get away lightly with this either. Harry revealed who made who cry in his book by revealing texts from his wife's phone. The famous bridesmaid dress incident happened when Meghan was picking out the bridesmaid dresses and Catherine didn't like how the dress was fitted and she texted Meghan saying this and Meghan said that there was a dresser ready just in case someones dress didn't fit etc. According to Harry it was Meghan who collapsed on the floor in tears over the incident and then said that Catherine didn't know what she was talking about as she had 'baby brain' as she has just given birth to Prince Louis.
Queen Camilla also didn't get away with it either in the book as Harry called her dangerous and said that if she was happy she'd be less dangerous. He said meeting her was like injecting something into his arm to make everything go numb. He also believes that she works with the evil British press to put out negative stories about him and William to improve her reputation. He knew she was the 'other woman' in his mothers marriage. He also mentioned that both he and William ‘begged’ his father not to marry Camilla but he can be with her just not marry her.
He talks at length of his mothers death and how he and his brother coped and how his father 'helped' him get through it. Harry claims that Charles didn't hug him when he found out his mother died, he only put a hand on his knee and told him that everything will be ok. Years later he asked his body guard to drive through the tunnel where the accident happened at the same speed to see how scary it was to his mother.
There has been some lies in this book too. Harry claimed that he was at Eton when he found out about The Queen Mother’s death but that was not the case. He was on a skiing trip with his father and brother when they found out. It was confirmed by reporters when he arrived in the UK by plane.
He broke the intimate privacy of his father in parts of his book too. Claiming that when he was walking around balmoral he would walk into Charles’s study and find him doing headstands in his pants. He also mentioned how much his father was relentlessly bullied in school. And though it’s a well known story it wasn’t Harry’s story to tell.
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