‘Spare’ by Prince Harry

Harry needs intensive professional help.
He is self indulgent and very damaged ! Yes , his childhood was unsatisfactory but also very privileged! I feel so sorry that our lovely cheeky Prince Harry is now a sad man. His book will most certainly cement his exile from his family and he will regret it. The title of his book is inflammatory - dread to think of the content. I will not buy or read it.

I love the cartoon Urmstongran.

….seems he wants the money so he’s sold his soul to a high bidder.

Echoes of Doctor Faustus then, and look what happened to him!

vegansrock I don’t think the article in The Guardian is a good article at all. The writer appears to spectacularly miss the point. It seems to me that people don’t ‘hate’ Harry and Meghan as she claims, but they dislike the Oprah interview in which they trashed their family for the entertainment of the world, and told, it is said, seventeen lies in that interview. I don’t know about that but they certainly did tell some lies, such as the one about getting married in the garden three days before they actually did get married (how embarrassing was that for the Archbishop of Canterbury?) Normal people don’t go on television and trash their family to the world. It was big news because it was so abhorrent. I’m not even a royalist but I recognise appalling and inappropriate behaviour when I see it, and that’s exactly what their behaviour was. You’re right when you say the royal family, including Harry and Meghan, are super wealthy and privileged, but that’s not why their behaviour is despised. Not haters, but definitely despised.
Interestingly The Guardian goes on to say how you can order Prince Harry’s book through them!
I won’t be ordering it through anyone because I don’t want to read it. I don’t think it will be interesting, but I accept that others might think it will be so. Perhaps in future both the journalists at The Guardian and others could defer from name calling, by that I mean calling people haters. It’s horrible and unworthy of journalists and the demographic that reads Gransnet.

This cartoon made me laugh this morning!

Wouldn’t we all hate any of our family discord to be played out in public? Beyond awful.

I don’t doubt Harry has had a lot of unhappiness in his life. The death of his mother at 9y and being encouraged to do that long walk behind his mother’s coffin with all those crowds? Gruesome indeed. I cannot imagine my 10y old grandson ever being able to ‘perform’ in that way. I can only imagine he was given some medication prior to stepping out.

It will have damaged him that’s for sure. Add to that the turmoil he will have witnessed on occasion between his parents who then divorced when he was a tender little shoot.

But I’m not sure a ‘warts and all’ is the best route. Seems he wants the money though so he’s sold his soul to a high bidder. It might help his emotional health in the short term “see, I told you all it was horrid”. But as the dust settles on the book jackets in various charity shops and after the media have picked over the bones of it in the tabloid press, I think he’ll have some regrets. But privately.

Poor man. I think he is damaged. I hope he finds happiness, eventually. Or at least release from his demons.

That said, picking continuously at a scab makes it sore and even bleed. Leave it alone Harry. Give it chance to heal.

You wanted. A Private Life. You can have it with your beautiful wife and adorable children. Stop reaching and preaching and appreciate the blessings you do have.

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Still free to a good owner - just one chewed up page by an unimpressed canine reader! Can be posted.

I'm sure the library wanted to male a profit out of me asking for the full £16.99. Surely they buy books from a consortium at highly reduced prices?

It's £14 on Amazon

MOnica Remember she was prevented from marrying Group Captain Townsend because he was divorced.

Once she was 25 she could have married him and given up her title but she chose not to. She wanted both.

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Volver, I know what you’re interested in.
You like a good spat

I had no doubt it would be ‘popular’ people are always interested in being nosy.

I’m sure the interest is worldwide. Voyeurs all of them.

We’re all interested in it!

I'm not.

I'm interested in what makes middle aged women so enraged by a posh bloke in the US writing a book.

JR Moehringer
www.thesun.co.uk/news/15636915/ghostwriting-author-prince-harry-book-who/

Volver, I never doubted that it would be popular.
We’re all interested in it!
I expect that most of the best bits will be serialised in the Daily Mail, with a commentary of feigned horror.
I will definitely read it, but probably not all the way through.
It’s written by the chap who wrote Andre Agassi’s biography, and that was supposed to be a brilliant book

Do they! Thank you Volver
I’ve heard that it’s already the top selling book, even as a preorder.

As an aside, I don’t understand why people would preorder books

Amazon use an algorithm to set the price according to how many people are buying/ordering it. More demand, higher price.

Maybe it's more popular than you all thought it would be. ?

Thanks Ann
It’s £31.13 at Amazon, oddly

so is W. H. Smiths

be £10 in sainsbuys too

DH has just read that Waterstones is offering it at half price. ?

Fanny
I have thought that about George for some time.
He has always seemed to me a very anxious child but I hope as he matures he also grows in confidence.

The expression "Spare" isn't a Harry original. I have heard it referred to many times over the years pre his being born. The Queen gives birth to "an Heir and a Spare". I'm sure I originally heard of it in History lessons at school. It is something Harry will have known forever so the title is just factual not really insulting. I'm a second born and have two children. The second born is brought up in a more relaxed environment as the parents have experimented perfect parenting on the first born and realised they don't have to be so intense about child rearing stuff with the second born.

Next time I will make sure that I explain myself properly so that people don’t jump to conclusions about me.

Or be ‘disturbed’ for that matter. You’ve definitely got the wrong end of the stick!

Lathyrus no, it’s definitely not what I mean. I don’t think anything horrible will happen to him at all. In fact, quite the opposite.
No need to be ‘triggered’.
I just think that George will not be crowned, he’ll turn it down.
He will decide that he isn’t temperamentally suited to the role, unlike his sister.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/28/spare-prince-harry-memoir-sussexes?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Good article about people who love to hate the Sussexes

People are only in the “glare of publicity” because they are newsworthy, people love to gossip about them and they sell papers. The Mail and their readers love to hate this couple for ridiculous reasons. There is more hatred towards them than towards many truly awful people. He’s written a book. You don’t have to read it or anything about it. Ignore it if it makes you so venomous. So they’ve gone to live abroad like lots of other people. So they write books and give interviews. Who cares. Don’t read them if you don’t like it. The RF are super wealthy and privileged but aren’t deity.