No turning back possible. Prince Harry’s memoirs, entitled Spare, will be published on January 10, 2023. The book promises important revelations on the life of the youngest of Charles III, and the latter would have “no regrets” about writing this “cathartic” story, according to the testimony of his relatives.
He will not turn back. If the death of Elizabeth II and the presence of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry in the United Kingdom during the period of mourning has sown doubt about the publication of the memoirs of the son of Charles III, it will finally be nothing. On January 10, 2023 will be released in bookstores the autobiography of the year: Spare, published by Fayard in France. Sold as an “intimate and sincere” account, the 416-page book is expected by thousands of people around the globe. “At this stage, there are no regrets,” assured a close friend of the prince in Us Weekly, this November 2.
According to the latter, Harry would have found the writing of his life “cathartic”. Opening on “one of the most striking images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind the coffin of their mother under the saddened – and horrified – eyes of the whole world”, Spare has indeed given the opportunity to Meghan Markle’s husband to return to the great trauma of his life. Namely the loss of his mother, Lady Diana, in August 1997. More than 25 years after her death, the youngest son of Prince William will offer his readers, with a “raw and unflinching honesty”, an unprecedented dive into his childhood and adolescence, bruised by the absence of the princess of hearts.
Prince Harry worked hard to find a balance
And even if Prince Harry asked to rework his copy, in order to remove the too thorny passages concerning his family, before sending the final version to his publisher Penguin Random House, Spare will undeniably mark a tipping point in the relations between the Sussexes and the British Crown. “Harry has worked hard to find a balance that will hopefully minimize the fallout from this book,” one of his close friends told US Weekly, noting that the prince has remained “true to his principles” but also had to satisfy his publisher.
“I’m writing this book not as the prince I was born, but as the man I’ve become,” Harry warned in a statement released last year, when Page Six had just announced he was writing his memoirs. “I’ve worn many hats over the years, and I hope that by telling my story – the ups and downs, the mistakes, the lessons learned – I can show that no matter where we come from, we have more in common than we think,” he had stressed.
The goodwill shown by the son of the King of England may not be enough to face the shock wave that will logically arise from his revelations. “The consequences of this book will be far-reaching and could be very destructive,” warned the royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams recently in the Daily Mail.
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