British press reveal more details on unreleased Harry memoir 'Spare'. Image without a caption. By William Booth.
Harry says he landed on a dog bowl, which left him bruised, and that his brother egged him to hit back, but he didn’t. The prince recalls fears that she would become a “wicked stepmother” and be unfairly compared to Diana. They declined at the time to say who prompted that conversation — only that it wasn’t Queen Elizabeth or her husband, Prince Philip. The tabloid photos of him in that costume were one of the royal family’s biggest Harry headaches — at least before he quit his royal role and decamped to California. That story was one of the headlines from Harry writes about using a psychic a woman who claimed to have “powers” to communicate with his mother, the late Princess Diana. [Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah Winfrey](https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/03/07/meghan-harry-oprah-interview-royals/?itid=lk_inline_manual_41) in 2021. It was "a humiliating episode with an older woman who liked macho horses and who treated me like a young stallion,” the prince writes. “One of my many mistakes was letting it happen in a field, just behind a very busy pub.” The prince says that he killed 25 members of the Taliban during his two tours serving the British army in Afghanistan. “When I found myself plunged in the heat and confusion of combat I didn’t think of those 25 as people. That revelation has mostly gotten a yawn in Britain, where few believed Buckingham Palace’s previous denials about Harry’s drug use.
The duke's bombshell memoir reveals his grief and anger at losing his trust for his family.
Such was the strangeness and scrutiny of his young life that he says he welcomed serving in Afghanistan. The aftermath of her death seems to have left a divide between Harry and his father, now King Charles. Also previously untold was his account of finding out about Queen Elizabeth's ill-health and death. It was a line used by Barack Obama before he became president - and it runs through this memoir like the writing in a stick of rock. When his plane was coming into land in Scotland he says: "I looked at the BBC website. It's not even past."
Prince Harry's memoir "Spare" was on Friday mauled by British media and commentators who called it "vengeful" and "calculated", as Buckingham Palace kept ...
"I saw this red mist in him," Harry said in a clip of his chat with ITV, talking about the altercation with William. "Having made the idiotic decision to 'go public' about his rift with the royal family, Harry was no doubt under enormous pressure... The left-leaning newspaper, which has questioned the monarchy's role in modern Britain, was the first to publish a leaked extract of the book this week in which Harry described his physical altercation with William. In an editorial, it pointed to "countless discrepancies" in his claims and urged him to listen to friends who have urged him to "stop for his own good". The Sun tabloid said that while people sympathised with Harry, 38, over the trauma of losing his mother as a child and having to grieve in the public eye, "neither can justify the destructive, vengeful path he has chosen, throwing his own family under a bus for millions of dollars". Wilson called the ghostwritten tome -- the biggest royal book since Harry's mother Princess Diana collaborated with Andrew Morton for "Diana: Her True Story" in 1992 -- "calculated and despicable" and a work of "malice".
Among the many revelations in the memoir is Harry's disclosure that he killed 25 Taliban fighters while on deployment in Afghanistan with the British Army.
It's the opposite of the case." Harry's words "were probably ill-judged for two reasons," Kemp said in an interview with Sky News. Among the killers of Afghans, not many have your decency to reveal their conscience and confess to their war crimes." Harry served in the British army for 10 years, obtaining the rank of captain. The ones you killed were not chess pieces, they were humans; they had families who were waiting for their return. CNBC has not seen or been able to obtain a copy of the book.
Spanish bookshops and leak to the Guardian undo secrecy plans but won't affect Spare's sales, say industry experts.
But it also left a void that was due to be filled by a handful of TV interviews. In an indicator of how they might fight their legal battles, the Mail also highlighted the juxtaposition between Harry writing a tell-all memoir and the legal cases he is bringing against British newspapers for invasion of privacy and phone hacking. There’s always more in a book than the media can reproduce. He said: “Lots of books come out with lots of pre-publication coverage and serialisations and it doesn’t seem to do any damage to sales. British newspapers phoned local reporters and freelancers, urging them to rapidly retranslate the book back into English in order to obtain more revelations – including Harry’s comments about killing 25 people while serving as a soldier in Afghanistan. Details of events including the prince losing his virginity behind a pub, him asking his father, King Charles, not to remarry, and his final visit to Queen Elizabeth II have been revealed.
Philip Jones, editor of trade paper The Bookseller, tells BBC News he thinks the leaks are "70% good" for the book and its publisher, Penguin Random House. " ...
LONDON (AP) — Bereaved boy, troubled teen, wartime soldier, unhappy royal — many facets of Prince Harry are revealed in his explosive memoir, ...
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The Duke of Sussex went on two tours of duty in Afghanistan and has revealed in his new memoir that he killed more than 20 Taliban fighters.
That's the English-language version of "Spare," the autobiographical book by Prince Harry, outlining his take on his and his wife's relationships with his royal ...
A litany of leaks and interview clips before the book's publication has made the process hard for the publisher to control, but has also driven early ...
Moehringer](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/books/prince-harry-ghostwriter-moehringer.html), and a cascade of articles does not offer the same narrative journey as a well-crafted book. The book’s title refers to a phrase that Charles is reported to have used to refer to Harry, his second son, as his “spare,” or back up heir, since he’d already secured an heir in Harry’s older brother. It’s too soon to say whether the overall sales trajectory of Harry’s memoir will be affected by the steady drip of revelations. Many readers will buy the book for an intimate view of Prince Harry’s life from his perspective, not just for bomblets of news. Publishing executives say that leaks can be beneficial if they drive the right kind of media coverage, and drum up interest in the book. This was all preceded by a six-part Netflix documentary, “Harry & Meghan,” which aired in December, and where Harry made [incendiary accusations](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/world/europe/prince-harry-william-meghan-netflix.html) against his family, including a claim that his brother’s communications aides planted negative stories about his wife, Meghan Markle, in the London tabloids. Matt Latimer, a founder of the literary agency Javelin, which has handled many books by high-profile politicians, said he has never seen an embargoed book leak from within a publishing house or printing plant. A tell-all by a member of the British royal family was bound to be a nightmare to manage. The media frenzy seems to be driving interest in the memoir, which is due out Tuesday. Publishers often guard against leaks with strict embargoes, in some cases requiring anyone who works on the book, including typesetters and copy editors, to sign nondisclosure agreements. There’s also his claim that William and his wife, Kate, encouraged him to dress up as a Nazi, and his recollection of losing his virginity to an older woman in a field behind a bar. But the contents of Harry’s memoir have been excavated to such a degree that it has raised the question: Will readers still be curious enough to buy the book?