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Prince Harry Learns to Cry, and Takes No Prisoners, in ‘Spare’

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

By Alexandra Jacobs

SPARE, by Prince Harry

Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex and Man About Montecito, isn’t one for book learning, he reminds readers of his new memoir, “Spare.” And yet its pages are dappled with literary references, from John Steinbeck (“He kept it tight,” the prince writes admiringly of “Of Mice and Men”); to William Faulkner, whose line from “Requiem for a Nun” about the past never being dead, nor even past, he discovers on BrainyQuote.com; to Wordsworth and other poets. Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” though, hit a little too close to home. “Lonely prince, obsessed with dead parent, watches remaining parent fall in love with dead parent’s usurper…?” Harry writes. “No, thank you.”

He prefers to sink into TV comedies like “Family Guy,” where he admires Stewie, the unnervingly mature baby, and “Friends,” where he identifies with the tortured Chandler Bing. 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.

In the prince’s full-throated renunciation of fame and royalty with all its punishing invasions of privacy, he has only become more famous, if not more regal, trading his proximity to the throne for the No. 1 spot on cushioned chairs opposite Oprah and Anderson Cooper . With “Harry & Meghan,” the gauzy Netflix series preceding this book, he and the Duchess now might well be overexposed . (Maybe this is part of the grand plan, to drive away inquiring minds by boring them to bits?)

My interest in the English royal family tends to dwindle after the era of previous renouncers like Edward and Wallis and the dynamically dysfunctional Princess Margaret, who “could kill a houseplant with one scowl,” Harry writes. They weren’t close; Margaret once gave him a cheap pen wrapped with a rubber fish for Christmas. I devoured early episodes of “ The Crown ” but Season 5, with its focus on Charles and Diana’s marital troubles, left me delicately yawning.

Still, I expected to enjoy “Spare,” given that it was written with the help of the talented author J.R. Moehringer, whose own memoir, “ The Tender Bar, ” I adored before it was even a glimmer in Ben Affleck’s eye , and who helped the tennis star Andre Agassi’s autobiography, “Open,” transcend the locker room. And I did. In parts.

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Spare by Prince Harry review: a lifelong quest for meaning often shows royal in an unflattering light

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Prince Harry is a man in search of a purpose - a fact made abundantly clear from the outset (I mean, even before you’ve read a page, the title of the book is about as subtle as an Apache helicopter), and hammered home across 400-odd pages, where he seems to use the word “spare” again and again, like a cudgel to beat himself with.

Basically, as the third in line to the throne, Harry started life as a “spare” - only “necessary” should his brother William meet an untimely end. It’s a raw deal, psychologically speaking. He is now seventh in line (“very spare”?), so what’s next?

A search for meaning dominates the book. Harry is rarely happier than when at the controls of a £42 million Apache helicopter. “I can tell from the way you fly,” an instructor tells him, “this is what you were meant to do”. Bliss: a purpose and one that serves his country to boot (Harry loves Britain - the Union Jack flag pops up throughout the book). But deployment with the army in Afghanistan eventually proves too dangerous. Ruined, like much in Harry’s life, by the pesky press, whose leaking (or reporting, depending on which way you see it) of the details puts him and those around him in danger. His frustration is immeasurable and somewhat understandable. Yet while he blames the press he doesn’t touch on the brute fact that it’s his status which makes him a target. Harry never seriously considers that it simply might not be possible to be both a royal son and a soldier on active duty in the 21st century.

Some years later, he finds a place where he is even happier than when flying Apaches - and it’s with Meghan. After their early meetings he wonders: “What is this? What’s the word? Is it… The One? Have I found her? At long, long last?” Again, the desire for purpose and meaning is telling and Meghan gives it to him in spades. By his telling, she profoundly changes – and makes sense of – his life, which he describes (not inaccurately) as one which has been lived in a “gilded cage”.

He means royalty itself - though, this relentless search for a life’s purpose, a higher meaning (premised, as it seems to be for him, on the idea that everyone has their little box, it is just a matter of finding it - and climbing in) is surely constricting too?

And then there is also the cage of his past. The book opens – where else? – with the death of Diana. An awful event for any boy of twelve is, as we all know, intensified almost beyond belief by the grief of the nation and blanket coverage in the media. Harry is trapped by the memory of his mother, who he describes in effusive, angelic terms as being “light, pure and radiant light”. She is the divine being who hovers throughout the narrative and often floats, almost literally, before Harry’s eyes.

Then there is his obsession with the press which also seems to bind him. By his own admission he is addicted to reading stories about himself and his loved ones. His father, King Charles, his brother William and the late Queen Elizabeth all repeatedly plead with him not to read them. But he simply can’t or won’t stop.

This results in a number of scarcely believable scenes. When a blizzard of negative stories about Meghan begins to rage, for instance, she makes a (fairly sensible) decision to not to look at the internet. “She wanted to protect herself,” he writes, “keep that poison out of her brain. Smart”.

Harry, though, refuses to do anything quite so practical. To win the “battle for her reputation and physical safety”, he “needed to know exactly what was fact, what was false, and that meant asking her every few hours about something else that had appeared online”. It reduces Meghan to tears. Harry blames the press, and seems to take no responsibility for reading this stuff out to his girlfriend, in the process overriding her clearly stated wishes to just ignore it

The tales Harry relates of press intrusion do leave you agog. Was there no peace on earth for this man, or his family? Photographers pop up everywhere, all the time. He cannot escape. He doesn’t always help himself, it has to be said. Once, on a lads trip to Vegas in 2012, he unwisely strips off as part of a jolly late night game (alcohol, as ever, was involved) and lo, the photos soon appear in the press. Other photos too - like those of him in a Nazi costume at a fancy dress party in 2005 (a catastrophic error he ungallantly tries to blame on William and Kate), and the 2003 photos of him kissing a girl in a club. Horrible and intrusive, but you do wonder: in nearly a decade, why didn’t you learn?

Part of the answer appears to be because he didn’t want to. Because he wanted to be free. Freedom is important to Harry (and important, too, to his new audience in America, where the Sussexes’ story is one of breaking free, telling their own truths, escaping the system). But what does freedom really mean to him? As we have  seen in the last few days, an important aspect of that is the liberty to talk about his family and the institution. But there are other things too.

He writes lovingly, and rather endlessly, about Africa, a continent which appears in this book as a refuge. It is where Harry finds solace and happiness in the brutal years after his mother’s death and freedom from intrusion. It is where he longs to take Meghan, having fallen head over heels with her instantly (in fact almost just from a clip of her on Instagram – “for thirty-two years I’d watched a conveyor belt of faces pass by and only a handful ever made me look twice. This woman stopped the conveyor-belt. This woman smashed the conveyor-belt to bits” – which I thought a touch dehumanising).

Harry suggests for their early courtship a trip to Botswana. His pitch to her is this: “Birthplace of all humankind. Most sparsely populated nation on earth. True garden of Eden, with 40 per cent of the land given over to Nature”. No mention of the people, except that there aren’t many. He’s not the only royal with a questionable attitude to the continent. At one point Prince William gets furiously angry with Harry and demands that Africa be his thing (the rhinos and elephants, that is) as Harry already has the Invictus Games. It’s not a good look.

The Harry that finds freedom in Africa is a different man to the one obsessed with the press – even his friends and girlfriends tell him he’s a different “Spike” (one of his endless nicknames) when there.

That’s not to say that he’s not fun when he’s back in Blighty. Harry had a deserved reputation as a party boy. In this book he drinks and takes drugs with great abandon. Indeed after his magical week in Botswana with Meghan, he heads off on a multi-phase lads trip complete with jetskiing in crocodile infested waters, bush cocktails and African beer, and “certain controlled substances”. Then there’s the marijuana, a habit which starts in his teens at Eton and appears to go on until possibly the present – he talks about smoking a joint at Tyler Perry’s house in Los Angeles, where he and Meghan briefly lived in 2020.

The partying is a piece of his silly side. Harry declares that he likes nothing more than making people laugh – a sweet, winning trait. He loves a bawdy joke too. Which perhaps explains why there is so much information – more than I expected – about his penis.

On a trip to the North Pole, Harry discovers frostnip (the forbear to frostbite) on his member. He goes to the doctor where, in another unintentionally revealing moment, he notes repeatedly that the doctor - who is preoccupied with something else - fails to look at him and so recognise exactly who he is. The doctor makes Harry wait and the prince feels slighted. The penis stuff goes on and on – you sense then, that Harry is still something of an unreformed ‘lad’. And it’s all wrapped up - as one of the book’s most startling passages shows - with his childhood.

A friend recommends Harry apply Elizabeth Arden cream to his frostnipped penis. “My mum used that on her lips. You want me to put that on my todger? It works, Harry. Trust me. I found a tube, and the minute I opened it the smell transported me through time. I felt as if my mother was right there in the room. Then I took a smidge and applied it… down there. ‘Weird’ doesn’t really do the feeling justice”.

That’s another unavoidable conclusion drawn from this book: Harry’s was a childhood arrested. Diana is a constant presence – Harry even visits a medium in LA to speak to her. Her son’s great quest is to avenge her, to fight the fight she was unable to do at the time, projecting, one feels, onto his own family many of his feelings about his mother and his relationship to her.

This arrested childhood also shows in the way that Harry speaks. William is Willy, Charles is Pa (not Dad, or Father) and Diana is Mummy. Always. There are references to “legends,” “lads,” and endless nicknames – Boose, Henners, Brent, Bidders, Jakie, Skippy and so on. He often sounds, when the ghostwriter allows him, like a teenager.

But his language is not always cuddly. On the subject of the press his vitriol is astounding (of course I may be somewhat biased myself on this subject). Rebekah Brooks, who he names bizarrely as “Rehabber Kooks” for a story she published about him – apparently not wanting to dignify her with a proper name, is described as a “loathsome toad… an infected pustule on the arse of humanity”. Another journalist, whom Harry agrees to be interviewed by, is portrayed as an addict: “I blurted something about not being normal, which caused the reporter’s mouth to fall open. Here we go . He was getting his headline, his news fix. Were his eyes rolling up into his head?” We weren’t there, Harry, so tell us: were they?

His extreme vitriol towards, and hatred for, the press is a family trait, but one which in Harry appears to reach extremes beyond what his father and brother experience. Clearly and obviously Harry feels it is not fair that he does entirely control the narrative of his life. That would be nice if it were possible, but that’s not how life works, royal or commoner.

A telling exchange takes place near the end, when King Charles tells Harry “the Institution can’t just tell the media what to do”. Harry writes: “Again, I yelped with laughter. It was like Pa saying he couldn’t just tell his valet what to do”. Once more – how revealing.

As a way to tell his own story, Spare is a triumph. But it shows its author often in an unflattering light: vain, status-obsessed, bitter and confused. It’s by turns elegantly written (the ghost writer J. R. Moehringer has done a very good job) and has sections that really ring true with Harry’s voice.

Why, though, did Harry write it? To tell his side of the story, to blow the whistle on the behaviour of the press and the way his family works, to avenge (perhaps) his mother. In these, it succeeds. He is a man, though, ever in search of a purpose. By the end, one senses he has found a new one: to tell the truth and change the world. Those are noble goals. But they may not be easy to achieve. It is hard not to fear, somehow, that the likeable, sweet, rather simple prince may soon find himself in search of meaning once more.

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Prince Harry’s much-anticipated new memoir, “Spare” is finally here, and with it, all of the drama you would expect from a tell-all penned by the media-savviest royal out there.

If you’re anything like us, you haven’t been able to pry yourself away from the stories slowly trickling out over the past few weeks from advanced readers. First, we learned why the book is titled “Spare,” a reference to an alleged comment by King Charles , that Diana had given him an “heir” (William) and a “spare” (Harry).

We’ve read leaked excerpts of Harry losing his virginity , his “frostbitten penis” at his brother’s wedding, his admission of cocaine use as a teenager, his kill-count in Afghanistan, and his ongoing (and sometimes physical) feud with his older brother, William.

The press tour has made a lot of people angry (namely, just about everyone else in the royal family, save for Meghan Markle), and, perhaps not coincidentally, sent pre-orders through the roof. Today, “Spare” is officially released on bookshelves, and electronic bookshelve s, everywhere.

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It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow-and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling-and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry was known as the carefree one, the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. He struggled at school, struggled with anger, with loneliness-and, because he blamed the press for his mother's death, he struggled to accept life in the spotlight. At twenty-one, he joined the British Army. The discipline gave him structure, and two combat tours made him a hero at home. But he soon felt more lost than ever, suffering from post-traumatic stress and prone to crippling panic attacks. Above all, he couldn't find true love. Then he met Meghan. The world was swept away by the couple's cinematic romance and rejoiced in their fairy-tale wedding. But from the beginning, Harry and Meghan were preyed upon by the press, subjected to waves of abuse, racism, and lies. Watching his wife suffer, their safety and mental health at risk, Harry saw no other way to prevent the tragedy of history repeating itself but to flee his mother country. Over the centuries, leaving the Royal Family was an act few had dared. The last to try, in fact, had been his mother. . . . For the first time, Prince Harry tells his own story, chronicling his journey with raw, unflinching honesty. A landmark publication, Spare is full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.

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Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’ Memoir to Be Released in Paperback Without a Bonus Chapter

Prince Harry ’s record-breaking memoir, Spare, will receive a new release as a paperback edition this fall.

Penguin Random House confirmed on Tuesday, August 27, that the Duke of Sussex’s best-selling book will be republished on October 22 in the United States.

While paperback editions of books tend to feature new chapters or additional information, Penguin Random House confirmed that “the new edition will have the same cover image as the hardcover edition, a newly designed package and the contents of the book are unchanged.”

Spare was originally published on January 10, 2023, and sold more than 6 million copies, in all formats, across the world. Spare also holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest-selling nonfiction book of all time.

Prince Harry’s Biggest Revelations About Princess Kate in His Book ‘Spare’: Fights With Meghan Markle and More

Harry’s memoir was divided into three parts and looked back at his royal childhood in the spotlight, including the 1997 death of his mother, Princess Diana . The book also put the spotlight on his career in the British Army and his courtship with Meghan Markle .

Harry, 39, and Markle, 43, married in May 2018 at St George's Chapel. They later welcomed kids Archie, 5, and Lilibet, 3.

“I’m writing this not as the prince I was born but as the man I have become,” Harry said before his book was released. “I’ve worn many hats over the years, both literally and figuratively, and my hope is that in telling my story — the highs and lows, the mistakes, the lessons learned — I can help show that no matter where we come from, we have more in common than we think.”

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Ultimately, Harry’s book made waves within the royal family thanks to some bombshell claims , including an alleged assault launched at Harry by Prince William during a 2019 argument over Markle. (Buckingham Palace has not issued any statements regarding Harry’s book.)

Despite the headlines, Harry maintained that his book was not made to make certain individuals look bad. Instead, he was hoping to speak his truth and provide a rare glimpse into his reality.

"While I know much of my life may seem unrelatable, I do think most siblings can relate to struggling with comparisons, and my brother and I are no exception,” he told People in January 2023. "I don't want to tell anyone what to think of it and that includes my family. This book and its truths are in many ways a continuation of my own mental health journey. It's a raw account of my life — the good, the bad and everything in between."

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Spare: by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex Hardcover – 10 Jan. 2023

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow-and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling-and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry was known as the carefree one, the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. He struggled at school, struggled with anger, with loneliness-and, because he blamed the press for his mother's death, he struggled to accept life in the spotlight. At twenty-one, he joined the British Army. The discipline gave him structure, and two combat tours made him a hero at home. But he soon felt more lost than ever, suffering from post-traumatic stress and prone to crippling panic attacks. Above all, he couldn't find true love. Then he met Meghan. The world was swept away by the couple's cinematic romance and rejoiced in their fairy-tale wedding. But from the beginning, Harry and Meghan were preyed upon by the press, subjected to waves of abuse, racism, and lies. Watching his wife suffer, their safety and mental health at risk, Harry saw no other way to prevent the tragedy of history repeating itself but to flee his mother country. Over the centuries, leaving the Royal Family was an act few had dared. The last to try, in fact, had been his mother. . . . For the first time, Prince Harry tells his own story, chronicling his journey with raw, unflinching honesty. A landmark publication, Spare is full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.

• Print length 416 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Bantam
• Publication date 10 Jan. 2023
• Dimensions 22.1 x 16.9 x 0.66 cm
• ISBN-10 0857504797
• ISBN-13 978-0857504791
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bantam; 1st edition (10 Jan. 2023)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0857504797
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0857504791
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 22.1 x 16.9 x 0.66 cm
• 92 in Biographies & Memoirs (Books)
• 244 in Literary Fiction (Books)

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Customers find the book interesting, providing a unique insight into the royal life of Prince Harry. They also say the book is well written, though the style takes adjusting to.

"...The audiobook version that Prince Harry narrates himself, is so well read that it felt like you were experiencing the moments in real time, I could..." Read more

"... There are some interesting (sometimes funny) anecdotes about his royal life when he was younger, but threaded across the pages are also incredibly..." Read more

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Customers find the writing quality beautiful, sympathetic, vivid, evocative, and easy to read. They also appreciate the great description of places and the emotional, heartfelt, sensitive, and eye opening writing.

"...he was younger, but threaded across the pages are also incredibly raw and emotional moments ...." Read more

"...As a beautiful , highly photogenic woman who had self-confidence and strongly held values it seems clear that Meghan was seen as deeply threatening..." Read more

"...Harry comes across as very honest , open and human in his writing;..." Read more

"...I am a third of the way through it.The writing style is easy to follow , and the chapters chronologically written...." Read more

Customers find the book heartfelt, sensitive, and eye opening. They also say the author is respectful and affectionate towards his father. Readers also mention that the book gives a rare insight into Royal life.

"...It shows him as a lot more sensitive , philosophical and also a lot more spiritual (in between the lines and in different chapters) than I thought,..." Read more

"...as a thoroughly decent man, who has matured into a thoughtful, compassionate and articulate individual...." Read more

"...He seems interesting, and interested in life , learning and changing with the omnipresent grief over the very public loss of his mother...." Read more

"...Measured, considerate & extremely honest. Any ‘shocking revelations’ within the book aren’t even that...." Read more

Customers find the book extremely honest, open, and believeable. They also say it's a very open account of the author's life.

"...The Prince of Hearts speaks - a raw, honest, and tender account ...." Read more

"...While the book offers moments of authenticity and vulnerability , it ultimately leaves the reader with mixed feelings and a sense of unmet..." Read more

"...Measured, considerate & extremely honest . Any ‘shocking revelations’ within the book aren’t even that...." Read more

Customers find the book provocative, interesting, and at times funny. They also say it's poignant, beautiful, and sad. Readers also say the book is revealing, disturbing, and horrifying. They mention that it't all doom and gloom, with touching and dramatic parts.

"...The Prince of Hearts speaks - a raw, honest, and tender account. So heartbreaking , devastatingly shocking and sad at times, but with so much humour..." Read more

"...The first half of this book is genuinely interesting and at times funny , with vivid and evocative (credits to the ghost writer) depictions of school..." Read more

"...At times, it was funny ...." Read more

"...This book is very easy to read, it’s amusing in places & Harry explains how the British Press & Media works for anyone in the public eye...." Read more

Customers find the story lovely, insightful, and interesting to read. They also say the narrator is good and the book tells a very different story to the one the media presents. Customers also say Harry is authentic, honest, and a good man.

"...What courage.It was a gripping, and highly engaging story ...." Read more

"...book and in the "Harry and Meghan" documentary series, as a thoroughly decent man , who has matured into a thoughtful, compassionate and articulate..." Read more

"...Read it, because it’s a good insight into Harry’s life , and it’ll really upset the British press to see it do well!" Read more

"In general an interesting story and a fascinating glimpse of the Royal Family and its reality...." Read more

Customers find the character depth compelling, shocking, intense, and lifelike. They also say the book is well written, touching, and disturbing at times. Readers describe the book as a remarkable event in British history. They find the chapter style short, punchy, and roll nicely.

"...So heartbreaking, devastatingly shocking and sad at times, but with so much humour - it’s really hilarious and funny in places...." Read more

"...Harry's telling of his story is compelling and shocking ... how the press' bizarre "agreement" with the Royal Family/Palace has been abused and is..." Read more

"...The chapter style is short, punchy , and rolls nicely with the flow of these early tales, and some of the descriptive writing really is beautiful..." Read more

"...The way he describes his deployements is especially gripping - and you can see his love for Invictus, his family, his country, and Africa in the way..." Read more

Customers find the book not compelling, repetitive, and boring. They also say the journalism is poor and the printing is the worst they've ever seen.

"... This book is a BIG con , don't waste your money." Read more

"...who isn't in an erotic relationship with Meghan Markle, it's really repetitive and boring...." Read more

"... poor journalism Question everything you read including this book...." Read more

"liked the book, not brilliant but interesting" Read more

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