Everything for sale: in the book “Spare” Prince Harry tells his and others’ secrets

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Memoirs of Prince Harry called “Spare” (“Spare“) went on sale on Monday, January 10. Even before the bookstores opened, queues lined up in front of them. Over 1.43 million copies were sold on the first day in the US, Canada and the UK. But already in the middle of the week, bookstores began selling them with a discount of 25, 35, 40, and in some places even 50 percent.It is obvious that the sensational revelations of the Duke of Sussex in several interviews for the release of the book, as well as in the six-episode film shown in December Harry&Meghanquickly tired the public, eager for secular gossip.

The most piquant moments from the autobiography of the son of the king of Great Britain, the public read last week. Despite the fact that the publishing house “Penguin Random House” announced that the memoirs will go on sale on January 10, 2023 simultaneously in all countries in 16 languages ​​of the world, in Spain the sale was mistakenly started a little earlier. From the very first fragments, which immediately began to be translated and published by the media, it became clear that Harry, as the newspaper wrote The New York Times, “does not take prisoners.” He gives details of family quarrels and even the assault of his older brother William, admits that they both cannot stand the Queen Consort Camilla and begged their father not to marry her, assures that Princess of Wales Kate brought his wife Megan to the point that she “sobbed, lying on the floor.” At the same time, a lot of space in the book is devoted to the death of Princess Diana and the attempts of her sons to come to terms with this fact and find some explanation for what happened. Here is how the Duke of Sussex described what followed the car crash on August 31, 1997:

My father sat on the edge of the bed and put his hand on my knee. “My dear boy, my mother was in a car accident. They did their best, dear boy. But I’m afraid that everything turned out to be useless “…

… Nothing of what I said to him then remained in my memory. Maybe I didn’t say anything. But what I remember with amazing clarity is that I didn’t cry. Didn’t shed a single tear. Pa did not hug me. He did not know how to demonstrate his feelings in ordinary life, could it be expected that he would show them in a crisis situation? But his hand touched my knee one more time, and he said: “Everything will be fine.” It was a lot for him: he sounded fatherly, reassuring, kind. And so untrue…

Years after his mother’s death, Harry asked to be shown a secret police file on that plane crash. His personal secretary received some of the materials. The prince saw many pictures of the dying Diana. According to him, the paparazzi who pursued her “did not stop taking pictures of her, and when she lay between the seats in an unconscious or semi-conscious state.”

None of them checked what was wrong with her, did not offer her help, did not even reassure her. They just filmed, filmed, filmed.

At various times, the prince tried to cope with his grief in different ways. At a younger age, he imagined that his mother did not die, but staged her death and disappeared to live in peace away from prying eyes. He dreamed that someday she would call them with William to her, and they would all live together. Later, to drown out his grief and anger, the prince used illegal drugs. And this is information that should never have appeared in the memoirs of a member of the British royal family, a close relative of Elizabeth IIwho devoted her life to serving the country and the monarchy. The selfish grandson was preparing a cruel blow for his grandmother, because the book was written back when the queen was able to read it and learn not only about it, but also, for example, that he treated genitals who were frostbitten during an expedition to the North Pole in 2011 her favorite cream is Elizabeth Arden. Or that in the war, Harry killed opponents, imagining that they are chess pieces, because “you can’t kill people if you perceive them as human beings.” And how could she survive the fact that from now on the whole world knows that her grandson’s first sexual contact was with a woman older than him in a clearing behind a crowded pub?

The British monarchy will never be the same again. Now even the most die-hard fans of the Windsors are wondering who all those people they have admired all these years really are. In Harry’s book, they find the most unexpected information about their idols. For example, about the late sister of the Queen, Princess Margaret, known for her sociability and sociality, Harry wrote:

Could kill a houseplant with one glance.

He also hinted at her stinginess by revealing that she once gave him a cheap pen for Christmas. About Queen Consort Camilla – that, in order to improve her image, she threw compromising information about the children of her lover to journalists. And Karl himself, according to Harry, “leaked” information to the media that his youngest son used drugs in order to turn from an unfaithful husband into a single father of two difficult teenagers in the public eye. The Nazi uniform in which the prince appeared at a party in 2005, after which he appeared on the cover of a tabloid The Sun, he, according to him, was advised to wear William and Kate. He vacillated between being a Nazi and being a pilot.

I called Willie and Kate and asked their opinion. “Nazi uniform,” they said.

Harry added that when he tried it on for them, they both screamed:

It’s even worse than Willie the leopard! Much more ridiculous!

Nowhere in his book does Harry take responsibility for the events that happened to him. Even his breakup with long-term lover Chelsea Davey, as it turned out, was the work of Queen Elizabeth II. And, of course, neither the book nor the interview could do without the “hunt for Megan” – the favorite topic of the Dukes of Sussex. Prince Harry claimed that his relatives understood that after his wife was not accepted into his family, she would leave for the United States, and desired this, but no one could have imagined that he would follow her.

But still, most of all in his book, which was actually written by the journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner John Joseph Moringer, the Duke of Sussex spoke about himself. For example, the traditional Scottish kilt so beloved by King Charles, Harry can not stand because of “that frightening golf knife and the breeze in the ass.” He works with a psychotherapist and inhales the perfume of Princess Diana, which makes him feel better, in addition, he spoke with gusto about all his lovers. And although he claims that all this is his private business, the public is shocked by the abundance of very intimate information about the prince of one of the most famous modern royal dynasties. So, in no royal family, no one has ever dumped information into the public space about frostbite of their genitals and methods of heating it. In the transferThe late show with Stephen Colbert” on CBSof which Harry was a guest, host Stephen Colbert voiced what everyone has been thinking for the second week:

No one in my life since I was a child could have imagined that someday the Duke of Sussex would say the words “penis pad” to me and it would make sense.

All this time, on the air of various TV channels, Prince Harry – when asked why he wrote this book – answered that he wants people to learn his story from him, and not from the media. But he doesn’t seem to understand that as long as he holds the royal title, even moving to the US can’t make him a private individual. And those whom he quotes without hesitation and presents as villains who want to strangle all life in the royal palace are not an ordinary English family, but a visiting card of a great country, the most important symbol of its historical heritage. And the frostbitten genitals of the prince who forgot about his duty will also become part of this story. Not the best part.