Spare

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Prince Harry's 'Spare' Memoir: Top Takeaways (The New York Times)

He talks candidly about Princess Diana's death · More on the British Royal Family · Prince William and Harry begged Charles not to marry Camilla · Press leaks from ...

“I just wish, at the second-darkest moment of my life, they’d both been there for me.” In the book, Harry sees the afflictions as a form of PTSD, attributing them to both his military service and the death of his mother. She was calm, but said in a quiet, level tone that she would never stand for being spoken to like that.” Harry writes: I expect she’ll want to be with me, doing the job, you know, which would rule out “Suits” … The article, which appeared in The Sun, “included the telling detail that we’d offered to relinquish our Sussex titles,” Harry writes. He added: “While in the heat of combat, I didn’t think of those 25 as people. A trip to the North Pole left Harry with some discomfort. There he had the “staggering” realization that neither his father nor his brother truly understood why he and his wife, Meghan, had moved to California. On one occasion, Harry writes, Charles — advised by a spin doctor — cooperated with the tabloids on a story about Harry and drugs to bolster his own faltering reputation. Harry’s private secretary obtained the files, though he removed the most “challenging” ones, Harry wrote. “I have to tell them,” he thought. Harry says he decided to write “Spare” when he traveled to Britain for his grandfather’s funeral in April 2021.

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'Spare' Book Sales: How Many Copies Will Prince Harry's New ... (Forbes)

Prince Harry seemed to be everywhere in advance of the rollout of his new memoir, Spare—on 60 Minutes, on Netflix, on shelves in Spain when bookstores ...

[Harry & Meghan](https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2022/12/08/heres-what-we-learned-from-harry-and-meghans-netflix-documentary/), featuring intimate interviews with the royal couple, [drew huge viewership](https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonifitzgerald/2022/12/09/how-many-people-watched-netflixs-new-harry--meghan-docuseries/) for the streamer. Becoming was one of the most successful books of the past decade, and Penguin Random House has said it’s likely the bestselling memoir ever. Sunday evening’s Anderson Cooper interview with Prince Harry on [60 Minutes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/andymeek/2022/03/27/cbs-scott-pelley-on-why-60-minutes-is-more-relevant-more-important-today-than-ever-in-its-history/) averaged 6.9 million U.S. That book, also published by Penguin Random House, also became the publisher’s all-time best mark for a single day, outselling novels by John Grisham and the Fifty Shades of Grey series. Now I write and edit for businesses... Bush’s post-presidency memoirs sold between 3.5 million and 4 million total. The publisher, Penguin Random House, is betting big on the new book. In its first month out, Promised sold 3.3 million copies—and bowing around the holidays certainly didn’t hurt, since many people bought the book as a gift. Prince Harry is not the first person in his family to publish a much-anticipated tell-all. [set a record in the U.S.](https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonifitzgerald/2020/11/19/how-barack-obamas-book-sales-stack-up-against-other-big-memoirs/) by selling 890,000 copies in its first day of release in fall 2020. And the frenzy is even greater in the UK, as you’d imagine, where the royal family is a very big deal and many remain up in arms over the retreat of Prince Harry and wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, to the United States to raise their family. Prince Harry seemed to be everywhere in advance of the rollout of his new memoir, Spare—on 60 Minutes, on Netflix, on shelves in Spain when bookstores

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'Spare,' by Prince Harry: Book Review (The New York Times)

At once emotional and embittered, the royal memoir is mired in a paradox: drawing endless attention in an effort to renounce fame.

He seems both driven mad by “the buzz,” as the royals’ inexhaustible chronicler [Tina Brown](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/books/review-palace-papers-house-of-windsor-tina-brown.html) would call it, and constitutionally unable to stop drumming it up. The prince claims to have a spotty memory — “a defense mechanism, most likely” — but doesn’t appear to have forgotten a single line ever printed about him and his wife, and the last section of his tell-all degenerates into a tiresome back-and-forth about who’s leaking what and why. And yet when his father advises of the unrelenting and often racist press coverage of Harry’s union to Meghan — “Don’t read it, darling boy” — it’s difficult not to agree. Harry is frank and funny when his penis gets frostbitten after a trip to the North Pole — “my South Pole was on the fritz” — leaving him a “eunuch” just before William marries Kate Middleton. [Oprah](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/world/europe/recap-of-harry-meghan-oprah-interview.html) and [Anderson Cooper](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/books/prince-harry-itv-60-minutes-interviews.html). I devoured early episodes of “ [The Crown](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/arts/television/the-crown-season-5-monarchy.html)” but Season 5, with its focus on Charles and Diana’s marital troubles, left me delicately yawning. [Edward ](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24401859M/A_king%27s_story)and [Wallis](https://www.librarything.com/work/1286634) and the dynamically dysfunctional Princess Margaret, who “could kill a houseplant with one scowl,” Harry writes. Harry’s distinctly English voice (he doesn’t like kilts, for example, because of “that worrisome knife in your sock and that breeze up your arse”) at times does weird battle with the staccato patois of a tough-talking private eye doing voice-over in a film noir. (More mildly he tries magnesium supplements, and I’m not sure anyone needs to know that this loosened his bowels at a friend’s wedding.) “I let you have veterans, why can’t you let me have African elephants and rhinos?” Reading “Spare,” though, one kind of wants to snatch the remote control from his hands and press into them a copy of Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22.” Not because of Harry’s military endeavors (unlike Yossarian, he seems to have felt sane only in active combat) but because of the seemingly inescapable paradox of his situation. With “Harry & Meghan,” the gauzy Netflix series preceding this book, he and the Duchess now [might well be overexposed](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/books/prince-harry-book-royal-family.html).

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Prince Harry's autobiography Spare is UK's fastest-selling nonfiction ... (The Guardian)

The memoir, which includes claims Prince William attacked him, records figures of 400000 on its first day.

she would be heartbroken.” “I think she would be sad … “Not stopping us going back, but making it unsurvivable.”

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Spare review: The weirdest book ever written by a royal (BBC News)

Prince Harry's book, with sex, drugs and monarchy, reaches parts never seen before in a royal memoir.

He's back and forth to Africa like he was going a few stops on the Northern Line. Charles is seen padding around in his slippers, listening to his audio-books, obsessed with Shakespeare, wearing Dior scent and falling asleep at his desk. As a schoolboy, smoking cannabis with his friends, he watches the police outside there to guard him. Charles leaves notes for him trying to say nice things - but Harry questions why he couldn't say them in person. What's missing from the book is any sense of awareness of any wider context of the rest of the world outside. Harry says he watches the TV show Friends on a loop, identifying with the funny guy character of Chandler. Plenty of the book will get people irritated too, particularly its self-absorption. It's a long way from the commentary for Trooping the Colour. It's as if he has been blinded by the paparazzi flashlights. It's disarmingly frank and intimate - showing the sheer weirdness of his often isolated life. When he's in there one day he overhears shoppers debating whether he's gay. This royal appendage gets more lines than many of his relatives.

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The Real Villain of Spare, and of Prince Harry's Life Story, Is the Media (TownandCountrymag.com)

Prince Harry's new memoir is certainly critical of his family, but when read in full, the level to which he is consumed by hatred of the press is apparent.

There is no doubt that Harry’s story is heartbreaking at times and it would be hard to come away from reading Spare without feeling some compassion for him. Spare stops short, however, of making a case that there is some kind of free-flow of information between the Palace and the media. She was the Daily Mirror's Royal Correspondent and is a frequent contributor to Good Morning America. “I fully accept that writing a book is feeding the beast,” he told ABC news. Having never fully subscribed to the view that Harry’s desire to write this book was motivated by money, the end of the manuscript made me think again on this point. Yet in trying to save himself from the persecution of false narratives, one wonders whether the Prince has also sacrificed himself. The reality is, the reason Harry’s book is so shocking is because we knew so little of it before. The book is full of anecdotes about journalists and photographers, most unnamed but it is clear that Harry has studied them all. He declares that it was “a bare-faced lie” that he was William’s best man. The portrayal of King Charles is also not that unflattering. [his declaration to ITV’s Tom Bradby](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a42427296/prince-harry-itv-tom-bradby-interview-royal-family-racism/) that the press was entirely to blame when outrage was expressed at Lady Susan Hussey’s comments to Ngozi Fulani. With days of headlines having already planted [the key takeaways](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a42407949/prince-harry-spare-biggest-revelations/) firmly in people’s minds, reading the whole thing was always going to be a journey punctuated by familiar landmarks.

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Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, becomes U.K.'s fastest selling non ... (The Globe and Mail)

Prince Harry's Spare became the U.K.'s fastest selling non-fiction book ever, its publisher said on Tuesday, after days of TV interviews, ...

“I’ve got one or two other things to do.” “I don’t regard her as an evil stepmother. “And I know, definitely, there are a lot of people who say that he shouldn’t come out and say the things he says, but I believe Harry should be given a chance to say what he wants to say.” Harry speaks of his grief and growing up after the death of his mother, Princess Diana, when he was just 12, his use of cocaine and other drugs to cope, how he killed 25 Taliban fighters while serving as a soldier in Afghanistan and even how he lost his virginity. “I like him, I like the royal family,” said Lennon, 59, the first and only person waiting to buy a copy from a Waterstone’s bookshop in central London when it opened. Earlier in the day, Caroline Lennon, a retail worker and one of the eager readers who had headed to bookshops to get their copy on the first day of its release, said she would read the book immediately as she posed for photographers.

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After hype, readers get hands on Prince Harry's 'Spare' (Toronto Star)

The book's publisher said “Spare” sold 400000 copies in the U.K. in all formats — hardback, ebook and audio — on its first day.

I don’t care because I like the royal family, and I like Harry and Meghan.” “I want to read (it) because I like the royal family and I don’t care what anybody says,” she said. site, which like many big retailers is offering it half price, and is already one of the year’s biggest sellers. The book’s myriad revelations and accusations have already been splashed across the media. A few stores in Britain opened at midnight to sell copies to diehard royal devotees and the merely curious. “There’s so much misinformation, disinformation about Harry and Meghan.”

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Opinion | Prince Harry goes scorched earth in memoir 'Spare' — and ... (Toronto Star)

Spare,” which actually spares no one, writes Rosie DiManno, was released globally on Tuesday.

The rest of the melodrama in the household — most particularly the Diana nemesis that was Camilla — Harry was too young to understand. William, he writes, stereotyped his wife as a “divorced, biracial American actress,” too outspoken, “rude” and “abrasive,” heedless of protocol, who would disrupt the royal family compact. Yet in his interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby, which aired Sunday, the prince maintained Meghan had never accused anyone of racism. It was self-survival that made them quit the United Kingdom — his decision, Harry insists, not Meghan’s. [Camilla, the Other Woman](https://www.thestar.com/news/world/royals/2023/01/09/prince-harry-accuses-camilla-of-dangerous-leaks-to-media.html?rf) who’s now Queen Consort. They were not, Harry asserts, as close as presented, though yoked in grief, both born to the culture of a stiff upper lip, exponentially stiffer in the royal family. Certainly not the thrust of TV interviews either which Harry has given in recent days, presumably putting aside his deep-rooted loathing of journalists — “monsters” and “grotesque” he labels them — though more specifically he means the merciless reportage of the British tabloids. He blamed, still blames, the hounding paparazzi for the death of his mother in Paris, and he’s not wrong, despite a French judge clearing photographers of all culpability in their chaotic pursuit of Diana and her recent boyfriend Dodi Fayed through the Alma tunnel that night. But this tell-all memoir, part of the multi-mega-million-dollar bonanza the couple secured after fleeing their gilded cage, was scheduled for publication in the fall, deferred after the death in September of Queen Elizabeth II. This was the jagged shard of broken glass that ravaged Harry’s existence. This is the trauma that mutilated his life. [launch broadsides](https://www.thestar.com/life/2023/01/06/the-highlights-and-lowlights-from-prince-harrys-leaked-memoir.html?rf) at the royal family.

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Spare me: Prince Harry's claim of victimhood doesn't quite fly (The Globe and Mail)

It's not that Harry hasn't suffered. But do the grumblings of a second-born royal hold a place in any broader fight for justice?

Harry claims his father left him “unemployable.” But he can still do whatever he feels like (such as get a memoir “That loud thump, unavoidable because the windows were so old, always felt like the door of a jail cell being slammed.” Between the lines, and despite itself, Spare can be a fun, escapist and gossipy read, about a world where homes have 50 bedrooms and young people go on safari with hippos because why not. It’s involved being hounded by paparazzi, and it made his pre-Meghan romantic life a challenge: women were either put off by the lack of privacy, or a little too excited about becoming a princess. But is he right to say he “fled”? Indeed, much of the book covers how Harry feels, temperature-wise, while in the army but also in civilian situations. We learn that Prince Charles summoned the Chief Rabbi of Britain, who told Harry – 20 at the time – what the Holocaust was. Some – and I’m among them – argue that rather than being a way to promote social justice, so-called wokeness is about maintaining the status quo. (The latter involves a nauseating anecdote about frostbitten nether regions. his own “self-loathing.” And anyway, how contrite did he need to be, given that, in his telling, William and Kate put him up to it? But a royal, even a “spare,” is uncancellable. When he partied, this was not a prince cavorting.

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Prince Harry's "Spare" jumps to No. 1 on bestseller lists (CBS News)

In the memoir, the 38-year-old Harry details his life as part of the royal family, warts and all — and it may be the warts that are boosting book sales. The ...

In the memoir, the 38-year-old Harry details his life as part of the royal family, warts and all — and it may be the warts that are boosting book sales. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out," Harry wrote in "Spare." The Economist Other bombshells include his claim that William physically assaulted him over tension related to Meghan Markle, whom Harry married in 2018. The book, however, is hardly an afterthought in bookstores, with the title jumping to the top of several bestseller lists as it hit store shelves on Tuesday. 1 on Amazon's nonfiction bestseller list, while it was also atop Barnes & Noble's top 100 sellers the same day.

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<i>Spare</i> Is Surprisingly Well Written—Despite the Drama ... (TIME)

Moehringer, a former newspaper reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, has spent years helping celebrities like Andre Agassi share their life ...

The anecdote about Harry’s frostbitten nether regions, for instance, segues into a moment of reflection about the invasiveness of the press. Moehringer, bringing an outsider’s perspective, is able to ground Harry’s personal feelings in the history of the monarchy and cultural significance of his position. The book is far from perfect. The tidbits were stripped of context. “And even though you’re thinking third person, you’re writing first person, so the processes are mirror images of each other, but they seem very simpatico.” Whatever you think of the content, there’s no denying Spare is unflinching, introspective, and well-written. Like so much around here, I thought.” When his father and brother do arrive, they wander through the cemetery, and find themselves, Harry remembers, “more up to our ankles in bodies than Prince Hamlet.” “I turned my back to the wind and saw, looming behind me, the Gothic ruin, which in reality was no more Gothic than the Millennium Wheel,” Harry writes. Moehringer, fashioned the graveyard scene to evoke the Bard’s tragic tale of succession. [leaks from Prince Harry’s memoir Spare](https://time.com/6245103/prince-harry-spare-memoir-revelations/) before its Jan. The three men have agreed to a parley after Headlines about [Harry’s frostbitten penis](https://time.com/6245523/prince-harry-60-minutes-spare/) and his physical altercation with Prince William primed us to expect something akin to a Real Housewives episode.

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After hype, readers get hands on Prince Harry's 'Spare' (CTV News)

After weeks of hype and days of leaks, readers got a chance to judge Prince Harry's book for themselves when it went on sale around the world on Tuesday.

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Prince Harry Is Becoming Harder To Root For (BuzzFeed News)

The former senior royal makes it clear in his new memoir, Spare, and in the interviews he's done recently that his real enemy has always been the press and ...

While there’s plenty of sympathetic material in Spare — many reviewers have pointed out that Harry’s aching for his mother is the most poignant element of the book — there’s also Harry taking pride in killing 25 Taliban soldiers by othering them, according to what he says was the army’s way of rendering the enemy inhuman; there’s Harry writing, explicitly, that his “problem has never been with the concept of monarchy.” What we’re left with is not a heroic freedom fighter against institutional racism and oppression, but a traumatized young man of enormous privilege who wishes his family wasn’t quite so fucked up and would generally do a little less racism (sorry, “unconscious bias”) — and not because racism is bad, necessarily, but because it’s hurting him personally. [her review of](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/prince-harry-book-spare-review-b2259262.html) [Spare](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/prince-harry-book-spare-review-b2259262.html) for the Independent. Even in the US, Harry and Meghan’s adopted home, where they’ve enjoyed a more favorable reception, the tide seems to be turning against them, argues Sarah Lyall [in a piece today for the New York Times](https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/SzKIxj9Tr7Hq7KKjtx0HTw~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRloAP4P0TnaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wMS8wOS9ib29rcy9wcmluY2UtaGFycnktYm9vay1yb3lhbC1mYW1pbHkuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0xOTAmZW1jPWVkaXRfdWZuXzIwMjMwMTEwJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTgyMzM3Jm5sPWZyb20tdGhlLXRpbWVzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9NjkyODg3MDImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xMjIxMjEmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPTQxNWMzMWEyYmYyYTkzYjJiZTlmZTEyODlmODZjY2NmVwNueXRCCmO1-H69Y7VdFIlSHHNoYW5ub25iZXRoa2VhdGluZ0BnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~). “A white-hot hatred of the press rages through the book,” Lucy Pavia writes in Kennedy Human Rights Foundation for their [“heroic stand” against “structural racism](https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family/prince-harry-meghan-markle-human-rights-racism-b2229406.html)” in the monarchy. Most significantly, younger people, who’ve been much more likely to be pro-Harry, are turning on him too: 41% percent of young Brits approve of him, while the same percentage disapprove — an astonishing drop from his 20-point lead in December, when 49% held a positive view compared to just 29% negative. [tweeted on Monday](https://mobile.twitter.com/theroyaleditor) that, given Harry says neither he nor Meghan said the royal family was racist, perhaps they should return the award they received in New York last month from the Robert F. They are ultimately pursuing reform for the monarchy’s benefit — their vision is a ‘multicultural, diverse’ monarchy but the basis of its wealth and power is unchanged.” [tweeted the Black British writer Jason Okundaye](https://twitter.com/jasebyjason/status/1612214829602701312?s=20&t=n7_Z7NWco_98i_PZF1qF7g) as the interview aired. “I would like to get my father back; I would like to have my brother back.” Despite directly accusing his family members of abusing him and Meghan, Harry wants, or at least says he wants, a relationship with his abusers. “Otherwise, unconscious bias then moves into the category of racism."

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Prince Harry's book 'Spare' goes on sale (CityNews Toronto)

In Britain, a few stores opened at midnight to sell copies of Spare to diehard royal devotees and the merely curious. Many said they wanted to form their own ...

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What the Acknowledgements in Spare Reveal About Prince Harry's ... (TownandCountrymag.com)

Who Prince Harry thanks, and doesn't thank, is extremely interesting. By Emily Burack Published: Jan 10, 2023.

And to you, the reader: Thank you for wanting to know my story in my words. Moehringer](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a42388525/who-is-jr-moehringer-prince-harry-memoir-spare-ghostwriter/), Harry writes, "Thanks to my collaborator and friend, confessor and sometime sparring partner, J. Harry then acknowledges the "A Team," which is unclear, and the Archewell team, those working for his and Meghan's foundation. Moehringer, who spoke to me so often and with such deep conviction about the beauty (and sacred obligation) of Memoir, and to all the faculty and students at the Moehringer-Welch Memoir Academy, including Shannon Welch, Gracie Moehringer, Augie Moehringer, John Stillman, Kit Rachlis, Amy Albert. Special thanks to Shannon for her countless reads and brilliant, incisive notes." He then goes a bit vague, writing, "To Rick, Andrew, the two Tims, Matt, Jenny and team, David, my deepest thanks for your wisdom and guidance. [Tyler Perry has a close relationship with Harry and Meghan](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a42254536/meghan-markle-prince-harry-tyler-perry-relationship/). "To my entire military family, for challenging me, prodding me, encouraging me, and for always having my back," he writes. [Nacho Figueras](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/sporting/news/a6477/nacho-figueras-polo/) is Harry's close friend, and polo teammate, and Delphi is his wife. Harry writes, "To my mates in the U.K., who have stuck by me, who may not have seen it all clearly as it was happening, but who always saw me, knew me, stood by me—in amongst the fog—thank you for everything. He also thanks the CEOs Markus Dohle and Madeline McIntosh of PRH global and U.S., respectively, "for the understanding as timelines changed, not once, but twice," indicating there have been delays in getting Spare to bookshelves. He then names "Thomas, Charlie, Bill, and Kevin," without last names.

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'Spare' Review: Titled and Entitled (The Wall Street Journal)

In this score-settling memoir, Harry rails at his family for selling him out to the tabloids yet has no problem telling tales out of palace himself.

[Kohl's Coupon 30% off sitewide](https://www.wsj.com/coupons/kohls) In his score-settling, setting-the-record-straight, ghost-written memoir, “Spare”—perhaps you’ve heard about it, then heard about it some more—Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, spills his tea about his frostbitten penis (spare us), the loss of his virginity (please, spare us) and his copious youthful drug use and alcohol consumption (who would have guessed?). ‘Our royalty is to be reverenced,” the British journalist Walter Bagehot once wrote, “and if you begin to poke about it you cannot reverence it.

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Prince Harry: A Brand In Crisis With Spare In 2023 (Forbes)

A whopping 64% of Britons now have a negative view of Prince Harry. As he launches his new book Spare, Prince Harry's brand is imploding.

I don't think the problem is that Prince Harry is a divisive brand. Live to Lead failed to break into the top 100 TV shows let alone the top 10 Netflix shows. And yet the overwhelmingly negative sentiment that Prince Harry is generating both in traditional and social media, on both sides of the Atlantic, by disclosing family feuds shows no signs of slowing down. But in my mind, a divisive brand is powerful. The marketing budget that Random House puts behind its tent pole books - including buying in store book displays, table space, window displays, supermarket chart places, airport displays, real estate online, outdoor advertising, and inevitably seeing Spare get attached to a range of Prince Harry’s activities and charities not to mention re-emerge before the holidays around November of this year - will ensure Spare is everywhere! [64%](https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2023/01/09/prince-harry-favourability-falls-new-low-after-run) of Britons now have a negative view of Prince Harry. With concerns about a potential recession, inflation, and strikes, audiences will struggle with Harry’s key messaging, which continue to revolve around family tantrums, fight for titles, and who got better media coverage from the Palace’s PR team. More people watched the BBC’s Happy Valley than tuned into Harry’s explosive interview about Spare on ITV in the UK. And while Prince William’s image has recently taken a slight hit, the future king is still adored. It’s no wonder the palace continues to have a no-comment position on Harry’s claims against them. I don’t doubt that Spare will become a bestseller; that’s a no-brainer. Thanks to Spare, Prince Harry has become Britain’s most [unpopular](https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/12/09/after-prince-andrew-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle) royal (after the Epstein-linked Prince Andrew.) Even younger audiences, who generally held more favorable views of Prince Harry, are turning against him.

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Spare by Prince Harry — complain and explain (Financial Times)

The memoir is arguably the most insightful royal book in a generation, yet still leaves readers with many questions about the monarchy unanswered.

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Reactions to Prince Harry's Memoir Spare Are Mixed in Windsor (TownandCountrymag.com)

Prince Harry's bombshell autobiography will be a bestseller, but it hit shelves to little fanfare this morning in the UK.

Yards down the road from a denuded Christmas tree still waiting to be removed at the gates of Windsor Castle, stacks of Spare are also on display in the entrance of WH Smith, relegating memorial biographies of the late Queen to the back of the store. Even in Windsor, which has provided the backdrop to so much royal pageantry, fealty to the firm is not a given. The engineer has been sent to fetch a copy for his wife Amanda, 54, who is such a keen consumer of royal intrigue that she tried to buy the Spanish edition last week, after its premature release and sometimes clumsy translation. The book already tops best-seller charts on both sides of the Atlantic. “I thought it had already come out!” says one customer, as she leaves the otherwise empty store with a new cookbook. The publishing event of the century is a reserved affair in the seat of royal pomp and fandom.

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Spare us, Prince Harry. His truth overload could cause irreparable ... (The Tennessean)

Dava Guerin is the author or co-author of eight books about wounded warriors, military caregivers, veterans, first responders, and others. As details of Prince ...

In addition, while it might initially feel cathartic to open up your life and share personal grievances, over time, you may have second thoughts. Already, Prince Harry’s more controversial and very personal recollections of his life as a member of the Royal Family have caused shockwaves around the world. Even catastrophic to that person’s life and career. His father and brother may have a completely different perspective of the story Prince Harry tells in his memoir. And is revealing this information going to open you up for a defamation lawsuit?” From messy divorces, affairs, financial missteps, excessive drinking, and more, this reality show approach to memoir writing may seem the way to go.

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Spare: Which Royal has come out best in the book fallout? (BBC News)

It is a largely sympathetic portrayal of King Charles. Of all the Royal Family, he comes off best. Prince Harry's observations of his father cover ground we ...

The book will now be an obstacle stuck firmly in the way of the reconciliation Harry says he wants with his family. But that story is more graphic, those words more intimate and his hatred of the British tabloid press more intense than expected. For some, Harry has been rescued by her and escaped to a life of freedom and immense happiness. They are all thanked for keeping him mentally and physically strong over the years. There is less of the Duchess than you might think in the book and the interviews. He recognises the happiness and peace she has brought his father and he praises her work with victims of domestic violence. His story, his words, was the pitch. But her influence and impact shine brightly once she's on the scene. What Harry says about the Queen Consort will be hard for his father to stomach. The writing at times drips with anger and occasionally pettiness. The tension between them dates back decades he says - ignored by William at Eton, privately usurped as his brother's Best Man and then attacked in the kitchen. They reinforce the image many have of him.

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Explaining the oddest quotes Prince Harry's memoir, 'Spare' (Los Angeles Times)

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, speaks at the “Vax Live” concert at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in May 2021. (Jordan Strauss / Invision / Associated Press).

“Recently,” Harry wrote, “astronomers rearranged their biggest telescopes, aimed them at one tiny crevice in the cosmos, and managed to catch a glimpse of one breathtaking sphere, which they named Earendel, the Old English word for Morning Star. But he managed to get the words out, telling Queen Elizabeth II that he loved Meg very much and wanted to marry her and had been told that he had to ask her for permission. Work also helped, and Harry wanted to work in Africa — but that was a problem for Prince William, who wanted Africa to himself and was willing to flex his veto power as heir to the throne. Harry wound up booking an appointment with the help of a friend, sneaked in through a back door with help from his bodyguard and told the doctor something along the lines of “I went to the North Pole and now my South Pole is on the fritz.” The doctor told him that the partial penectomy he had googled was likely unnecessary; the probable cure would be time. “I saw Granny jump into her smaller Range Rover and drive out to the middle of the stubble field. Big brother was resentful that Harry had been the one invited to the North Pole. “I went to find Billy the Rock” — one of his bodyguards — who shut that down immediately. These photos would never go away.” Fortunately, his army superiors didn’t care — and some servicemen even posed for their own candid snaps, “covering their privates with helmets, weapons, berets,” as a show of support before Harry headed back to the war in Afghanistan. The trip was “a bit of a neon blur,” as they all began drinking upon arrival and never really stopped. After the wedding, Harry’s penis “was oscillating between extremely sensitive and borderline traumatized.” Sitting, walking and sex were all difficult or out of the question, and he needed to see a doctor. “On the way home I told myself the whole trip had been a smash. Just before his big brother’s wedding, Harry was traveling to the North Pole with a group of wounded soldiers raising money for charity.

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Prince Harry's memoir is the U.K.'s fastest selling non-fiction book (Axios)

"As far as we know, the only books to have sold more in their first day are those starring the other Harry [Potter]."

[reports](https://apnews.com/article/prince-harry-book-meghan-royals-4141be64bcd1521d1d5cf0f9b65e20b5). [media empire](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harry-meghan-net-worth-netflix-documentary-media-empire/) that Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, are building around their lives, Axios' Hope King [reports](https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-closer-0ebed70e-3df3-4e04-8315-fd68c3dbd392.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioscloser&stream=top). [Prince Harry's new memoir, "Spare](https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2023/01/10/prince-harry-memoir-spare-twin-cities-library-hold)," became the fastest selling non-fiction book in United Kingdom history on its first day on sale, Reuters [reports](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/prince-harrys-memoir-hits-shelves-after-days-controversy-2023-01-10/).

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Afua Hagan: My main takeaways from 'Spare' by Prince Harry – that didn't make the headlines (CTV News)

The only book to have sold more copies on its day of release is by the other Harry – Potter that is. “Spare” which was released on January 10, has provided more than its fair share of headlines, thanks to the leaks that hit newsrooms a week ...

[Lifestyle](https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle) [Tap water isn't safe to use in neti pots and other home medical devices. [Business](https://www.ctvnews.ca/business) [Energy and utility stocks help lift S&P/TSX composite, U.S. flights were grounded by a FAA system outage](https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/why-u-s-flights-were-grounded-by-a-faa-system-outage-1.6226063) [Canada](https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada) ['She is alive': Sister of abducted Ont. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) told reporters on Monday that the regulatory agency is 'working really fast' on the Tesla Autopilot investigation it opened in August 2021. CES (formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas tends to showcase vehicles and technology that are further out than one might find at a traditional auto show. 6, a day after he won gold with Canada at the world junior hockey championship. But in a study published Wednesday in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, one-third of respondents to a survey incorrectly answered that tap water does not contain bacteria or other living organisms. It’s official: Elon Musk has now shattered the world record for the largest loss of personal fortune in history. president Donald Trump and one half of the conservative political commentary duo Diamond and Silk, has died, according to the pair's Twitter account. He went on safari with his brother and a large group and camped out in the desert every night. “Spare” which was released on January 10, has provided more than its fair share of headlines, thanks to the leaks that hit newsrooms a week before its official release.

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Prince Harry's 'Spare' Memoir Shoots to Top of Bestseller Lists (Entrepreneur)

The royal's tell-all memoir was raking in sales well ahead of its Tuesday release.

The [This Critical Attribute to Success](/article/441951) It was well situated in many ways to end up charting high. [Lessons for First-Time Entrepreneurs](/article/441085) bestseller list for books in the U.S. Spare also made it onto Books-A-Million and Powell's lists.

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Takeaways from Prince Harry's 'Spare' that didn't make headlines (CTV News)

Paul Workman with a look at how the British public is responding to the release of 03:31. Prince Harry's new memoir released. CTV Royal Commentator ...

flights were grounded by a FAA system outage](https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/why-u-s-flights-were-grounded-by-a-faa-system-outage-1.6226063) [Lifestyle](https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle) [Tap water isn't safe to use in neti pots and other home medical devices. Electric vehicles took two of three categories for the first time in this year's North American Car, Truck and Utility of the Year awards. But in a study published Wednesday in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, one-third of respondents to a survey incorrectly answered that tap water does not contain bacteria or other living organisms. border agencies say they have a plan to reduce the backlog for the Nexus trusted-traveller program. to check their flights before going to the airport after a key computer outage at the U.S. The United States Consumer Products Safety Commission appeared at one point to consider a ban on gas stoves due to health and respiratory concerns. He reportedly turned up ready to party, after a stressful few weeks of wedding planning and ready to blow off some pre-wedding steam. Henry was described as “the first to see light in every moment” as well as “kind, thoughtful and extremely funny.” Harry movingly describes his death saying, “Just like Mummy. He went on safari with his brother and a large group and camped out in the desert every night. If you think that being a Prince and living in – or in Harry’s case near – a palace means servants on hand all the time you would be mistaken. “Spare” which was released on January 10, has provided more than its fair share of headlines, thanks to the leaks that hit newsrooms a week before its official release.

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