‘Spare’ by Prince Harry

…was it an accident or did someone I love have my mother killed?

Diana died because she wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, her driver was drunk, her driver was speeding, and Diana herself refused the security which had been offered (and that security would never have allowed her to get into a car with a drunk driver.) If Harry doesn’t understand this, and we don’t know whether he does or he doesn’t, then I’m afraid the questions asked about his intellect are valid. That isn’t a nice thing to have to say but what other conclusions are there?

👍maddyone

Perhaps he finds it easier to believe what he wants to believe or has been fed by online conspiracy theories.

HannahLoisLuke

I am surprised at the choice of title, as it was his mother who coined the phrase, “I’ve done my duty and produced the heir and a spare”

That phrase has been around for centuries

WOW Gransnetters,
keep it calm ladies.
No need to be so nasty to people who don't agree with you.

I am looking forward to reading it.
I like Harry, I like Meghan, I like Kate, I like William - but all have some bad sides to them as they are just human like we all are. Everyone is entitled to see things from their point of view, which is just what Harry does.
So please, let's just leave it as "some will enjoy reading it and some will not want to read it" no need for all the outrage here.

The book was due to be released in November but has been put back a little due to the death of the Queen. I doubt Harry can control that much. I don't see an issue with him writing the book - he is only following in the footsteps of his mother who collaborated with Andrew Morton on his Diana biography. Those of you who think nobody will buy it are likely to be disappointed - there is massive interest in the book and the publishers would not have paid him millions if they did not think it would sell well. I won't be buying it as I don't really do biographies but might borrow it from the library. Criticisms about the possible content of the book are pointless at this stage - let's wait until it comes out before starting with the vitriol please!

11unicorn

WOW Gransnetters,
keep it calm ladies.
No need to be so nasty to people who don't agree with you.

I am looking forward to reading it.
I like Harry, I like Meghan, I like Kate, I like William - but all have some bad sides to them as they are just human like we all are. Everyone is entitled to see things from their point of view, which is just what Harry does.
So please, let's just leave it as "some will enjoy reading it and some will not want to read it" no need for all the outrage here.

You are new here, I’m guessing?
This is our bread and butter

MrsBridges

Apart from making thinly veiled threatening remarks to people and displaying utter contempt and disdain for anyone who has the audacity to think differently to you, do you enjoy any other hobbies volver? And do you enjoy spreading your venom elsewhere or are we the sole beneficiaries?

Oh dear you do sound rather het up ! Why not relax a bit ?

Your post was really nasty by the way

I know someone who works in a large bookshop chain, I asked her about it and seems to be already quite popular in pre orders.
Be interesting to see what the reviews make of it
And apparently
Prince Harry wishes to support British charities with donations from his proceeds from SPARE.
The Duke of Sussex has donated $1,500,000 to Sentebale, an organization he founded with Prince Seeiso in their mothers’ legacies, which supports vulnerable children and young people in Lesotho and Botswana affected by HIV/AIDS. Prince Harry will also donate to the non-profit organization WellChild in the amount of £300,000. WellChild, which he has been Royal patron of for fifteen years, makes it possible for children and young people with complex health needs to be cared for at home instead of hospital, wherever possible.

FannyCornforth

11unicorn

WOW Gransnetters,
keep it calm ladies.
No need to be so nasty to people who don't agree with you.

I am looking forward to reading it.
I like Harry, I like Meghan, I like Kate, I like William - but all have some bad sides to them as they are just human like we all are. Everyone is entitled to see things from their point of view, which is just what Harry does.
So please, let's just leave it as "some will enjoy reading it and some will not want to read it" no need for all the outrage here.

You are new here, I’m guessing?
This is our bread and butter

😂😂😂
And jam!

Give over!
It's my millionaire layer cake.

This is our bread and butter
Bridge rolls?

Many advantages for Harry being the spare I would think. A lifestyle most of us can only dream of and tons more freedom and far less responsibility than the one born to be king.

He seemed to like it until someone told him he didn't.
😮

FannyCornforth

11unicorn

WOW Gransnetters,
keep it calm ladies.
No need to be so nasty to people who don't agree with you.

I am looking forward to reading it.
I like Harry, I like Meghan, I like Kate, I like William - but all have some bad sides to them as they are just human like we all are. Everyone is entitled to see things from their point of view, which is just what Harry does.
So please, let's just leave it as "some will enjoy reading it and some will not want to read it" no need for all the outrage here.

You are new here, I’m guessing?
This is our bread and butter

11unicorn has been posting since at least early 2020.

Way to go to welcome people to the discission.

In the words of Capt Mainwaring... 'Stupid boy!'

Callistemon21

FannyCornforth

11unicorn

WOW Gransnetters,
keep it calm ladies.
No need to be so nasty to people who don't agree with you.

I am looking forward to reading it.
I like Harry, I like Meghan, I like Kate, I like William - but all have some bad sides to them as they are just human like we all are. Everyone is entitled to see things from their point of view, which is just what Harry does.
So please, let's just leave it as "some will enjoy reading it and some will not want to read it" no need for all the outrage here.

You are new here, I’m guessing?
This is our bread and butter

😂😂😂
And jam!

This is quite a “calm” thread as things go in my experience.
If not it would have been pulled by now BUT
there’s still time 😱

It was a joke, volver, as you well know.
But well done with your research skills, which have been woefully neglected I’m sure.
Please can we go back to totally ignoring each other. It’s for the best.
Now I really will be hiding this thread.

Way to go to welcome people to the discission
Way to go to enter the discussion.

Perhaps not the best first post to join in a thread?
Telling us what we should or should not be posting?

keep it calm
nasty
outrage
let's just leave it

Apart from that, the middle part is fine.

Welcome to the thread 11unicorn
I'm sorry, I must have missed your previous posts.
Thank you, volver, for the heads up.

Now I really will be hiding this thread.

Oh, please don't, FannyCornforth!

They didn't want to be working Royals - fine, so why do they want to keep their titles (to try and earn off the back of it ).
They moved to US - fine, but despite continually complaining about the British media and taking them to court they wanted the publicity (otherwise who would bother with them).
I'm not what you'd call a Royalist as such but I feel so sorry that the Queens latter years were spoilt by this pair, she must have been upset. It was bad enough losing her husband. Harry kept saying how much he thought of her b....s, I would never have treated my Nan like that. Then she (Meghan) had the cheek to pass comment on the Queen after the funeral and how much she thought of her - didn't stop them talking to Oprah did it.

Like someone said I wish the mefia would forget them, not bother writing anything about them and let them get on with it - would be interesting to see how they made a living then. I think the book will come back to bite him. When you saw the outpouring of affection around the world for the Queen after she died I think it's very poor that he is (probably) going to have another go at his family just to make money.

Oh goodness, it's gone nuclear. 🤪

He seemed to like it until someone told him he didn’t

And we can all guess who that was.

I cant. It's all too subtle for me

But he hasn't criticised Netflix for re-enacting Diana's death in The Crown, has he, despite it being totally tasteless and despite what he has said in the past? He would have been straight onto his lawyers if any other media stream had been responsible.

Everybody seems to know what's in this book and has an opinion about it. I'm sure that will boost sales no end. The truth is that I doubt if may people really know what's in it beyond Harry himself, his ghost-writer (I assume) and his publisher. The market is being primed, through the media, to ensure its success.

Like most people I've never met Harry or Meghan. Like most people I've seen Meghan on the TV and she seems a nice enough sort. I've also read a lot about her in the media, and as with most people that pretty much all I know about her, but to be honest the media has been pretty consistent about building a popular narrative about her, which is what the media does. It didn't start with Oprah. It began with trivia like touching her baby bump (didn't you touch yours?). Always the contradictions between the treatment of "English Rose" Kate and slightly outré, Californian Meghan. This www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/meghan-markle-kate-middleton-double-standards-royal says all I could say.

I don't believe for a minute that the couple caused deep distress to the late Queen. How would anybody know? She of all people was savvy enough to know that the world was changing and that a no-longer-requires "spare" should be allowed to build his own life in his own way. I think she knows and regrest that one of her mistakes was preventing her own sister from finding her own way (which she did anyway in the end)

Well he definitely has mental health problems. He's lost the plot since marrying that toxic woman!