When veteran royal reporter Robert Jobson pointed out the Duke's book made enormous sales, Edwards replied: "Yes, I know but we've got to hope Robert. Fingers crossed."

In my view, his gripe over being a ‘spare’ is disrespectful to the institution and the tax payers who support it, Many of us who have witnessed Harry's indulgent and privileged lifestyle over the years, when he was 3rd in line to the throne, will find this discourteous. Harry has had life handed to him on a silver plate, had the best of everything, and lived in some stunning homes. Yet he is that out of touch with the 'public mood' in the UK and so blinkered he would hope you would see him as a 'victim' and justified in ripping his family apart because he has had disagreements with his family, he was born second and had a smaller bedroom in Balmoral castle for example. Enough. Please, no more. What a good father would do': Why King Charles really invited Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to the coronation Regardless of which side you take on this, everyone that cares enough will find this all very sad. I am sure there are lessons to be learned on all sides in this family saga, and no shortage of regrets. Yet one thing I know for sure, we will never get to the real truth because one side will not resort to the petty and sometimes damaging allegations made by Harry, in this book. So William is nothing but an easy open target because he is part of an establishment that “never complains and never explains”, even when his wife is subjected to abuse from the media (much more than Meghan over the years). I didn’t have a costume but at the last minute discovered a hire place near to the party venue,” the fictional Prince wrote. There are moments when your heart breaks for Harry, like when as boy, he was convinced his mother hadn’t been killed, but that it was a public hoax so that she could start her life over somewhere. Or, when as a young man, he felt the need to go repeatedly through the tunnel in Paris at the same speed that killed Princess Diana.

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Rayner, Gordon; Ward, Victoria (6 January 2023). "Prince Harry's Royal family ambushes 'harmed Queen's health' ". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 6 January 2023 . Retrieved 7 January 2023. Some readers will feel empathy for Harry’s statement that the RF will someday regret not being there for him during the second most difficult period of his life because they failed to defend him publicly. Yet they DO NOT defend themselves, their wives, and the wider family because it is their motto to ‘never complain, never explain’. Not some elaborate plan to oust a couple that could have offered so much. Not a case of treating couples differently as they would have you believe. Perhaps the RF need to reevaluate this motto they live by. Perhaps not because by in large it has prevented them from being embroiled in petty skirmishes with the media, that Harry himself seems intent on having when he’s not using them to support his book or to his own ends. Instead, they have risen above it and not challenged the stories, and if Harry really believes the RF would invest time in sharing stories with the press over lipgloss, a flower girls dress or whether a prince should wear a beard - then I fear for him. So, by publishing this bitter book that is heavily weighted against and critical of William, Harry has likely created the second most difficult time in Williams life and this course of action was deliberate and venomous. You are right, there will be regrets someday and it will be for writing this book. Hopefully you have now exhausted your bile. Now ‘spare’ us any more of this!!! a b Grebenyuk, Yana (5 January 2023). "Prince Harry Reflects on Meghan Markle's Miscarriage, Details the Days After They Left the Hospital". Us Weekly. Archived from the original on 6 January 2023 . Retrieved 6 January 2023. I went into this book with an open mind. I am not particularly invested in the British monarchy, but it's been pretty hard to exist over the past few years and not be aware of the way Harry and Meghan have made headlines around the world - the effects of which have been polarising. a b Ward, Victoria (3 January 2023). "Duke of Sussex 'wrong' to claim King Charles not willing to reconcile". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 3 January 2023 . Retrieved 3 January 2023.

Low, Valentine (11 January 2023). "Queen's private secretary fixed Sandringham summit, Prince Harry claims". The Times. Archived from the original on 11 January 2023 . Retrieved 12 January 2023.Sachdeva, Maanya (8 January 2023). "Prince Harry reveals he used laughing gas during birth of son". The Independent. Archived from the original on 14 January 2023 . Retrieved 16 January 2023. Does he at last spell out his reasons for leaving Britain? Not really. There are loads of vague accusations. “You know why [I left]!” he yelps at William, in the royal burial ground at Frogmore, their feet almost “on top of Wallis’s grave”. But nothing concrete emerges, unless you think a misreported row over a bridesmaid’s dress is a reason to “flee” a country. Was it down to Meghan, then? Who knows. All I can tell you is that this manchild who once wanted nothing more than to work in an alpine fondue hut is patently obsessed with his wife. (Long story, but he literally peed his pants in the hours before their first date.) Coughlan, Sean (7 January 2023). "The enduring anguish of being the royal 'spare' ". BBC News. Archived from the original on 24 April 2023 . Retrieved 7 April 2023.

Entitled Spare Us!: A Harrody, the book is a tongue-in-cheek swipe at the claims made in Harry’s real memoir Spare. He was born into an ancient, powerful dynasty and, through no fault of his own, became one of the most recognisable men on the planet. His life was a constant barrage of press intrusion and manipulation. Until, finally, he demanded that it stop,” the synopsis begins. Romualdi, Melissa (19 December 2022). "Prince Harry Is Scheduled For Another Sit-Down Interview To Promote His Tell-All Memoir 'Spare' ". ET Canada. Archived from the original on 11 January 2023 . Retrieved 25 December 2022. A spoof on Spare - which I haven't read, but think poorly of. Unfortunately I think you do have to read Spare to catch some of the nuance, as then you know what parts are true/not.a b Coughlan, Sean (10 January 2023). "Spare review: The weirdest book ever written by a royal". BBC News. Archived from the original on 10 January 2023 . Retrieved 10 January 2023.

I listened to the author read the nearly 16 hour audiobook, and let's just say he's not a dynamic reader. Nor does he appear to have much sense of humor. Mostly, he just comes across as a really messed up kid. And, yes, there are very concrete reasons why this kid is messed up. Clark, Meredith (6 January 2023). "The detail in the Harry and William revelations everyone is missing". The Independent. Archived from the original on 5 January 2023 . Retrieved 6 January 2023. A parody of the recent biography "Spare," I wanted to read this because there needs to be some levity to this ongoing dumpster fire of self-involvement. While introducing British comedian James Corden at the Grammys, he said: "James Corden is a 12-time Emmy winner and the host of The Late Late Show. Thomas, Tobi (7 January 2023). "Prince Harry revelations 'like those of B-list celebrity' ". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 7 January 2023 . Retrieved 7 January 2023.

Prince Harry's popularity at new low after memoir published, poll suggests". CBC. 12 January 2023. Archived from the original on 12 January 2023 . Retrieved 12 January 2023. In every corner of Harry’s life is the shadow of his mother’s death and the grief that still hasn’t fully been processed. It is the very through-line of his story. That little boy behind the coffin is never far away from the reader’s mind.