Harry (left) spilled a lot of snake venom on his brother William. Photo: Getty Images
The memoir of the sixth in line to the British throne will go on sale in the UK on January 10. But either by mistake or with some calculation a few days before, it had already appeared in bookstores in Spain and, with its content, it certainly horrified the representatives of the British crown. Harry, the youngest son of the current King Charles III and Princess Diana, after marrying American actress Meghan Markle in 2018, has already become almost a pariah for representatives of the ruling Windsor dynasty. Despite the newlyweds being given the titles Duke and Duchess of Sussex after the wedding, Megan was not accepted as an equal to the august persons. And this dislike extended more and more to Harry himself. Apparently, the outcast prince didn’t want to take this anymore and took revenge on his relatives by revealing family secrets.
Memoirs called “Spare” were instantly turned into quotes by journalists from the world’s leading publications. Buckingham Palace remains completely silent.
Here are some of the hottest excerpts from Prince Harry’s memoir.
ON THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FATHER
“The day I was born, my father (then Prince Charles. – Ed.) Said to my mother (Diana, Princess of Wales. – Ed.): “Wonderful! Now he has given me an heir (William’s eldest son.-Ed.) And a spare: my work is done.
“He joked surprisingly unfunny a couple of times, saying, ‘Who knows if I’m really your real father? Maybe your father really is in Broadmoor, my dear son! (Here’s a hint at the rumors about Diana’s connection to Major James Hewitt – Ed.) The rumors continued, although my mother didn’t meet Major Hewitt until I was born.
“I was only 12 years old when it happened (the death of Princess Diana. – Ed.). I remember my father woke me up and said: “My dear son, my mother was in a car accident. There have been some complications.” What I remember with amazing clarity is that I didn’t cry. Not a tear. My father didn’t hug me. He was never good at showing emotions. How can he be expected to display them in such a critical situation?
“My brother and I told my father that we would take Camila (the current wife of Carlos III. – Ed.) into the family, as long as he did not marry her. “You don’t need to remarry,” we begged. The wedding would make the whole country, the whole world compare our mother to Camilla, who nobody wanted. Father did not respond to our requests. “We were ready to forgive her in our hearts if she could make her father happy. Maybe she would be less dangerous if she was happy? “We saw that, like us, my father was not happy … he took his childhood toy with him everywhere: a teddy bear. He was an unfortunate object with broken, battered and patched paws… The bear expressed the essence of his childhood loneliness more eloquently than my father.
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ON MURDOBOY WITH WILLIAM
“Interestingly, there was always a rivalry between us…William was my best friend and quite the opposite.” “When I saw William and my father enter the garden (at the farewell ceremony of the late husband of Elizabeth II, Duke of Edinburgh. – Ed.), I realized that they were here for a duel, and not for reconciliation ( for his relationship with Meghan Markle. – Ed.)… My dear brother, my sworn enemy, how did we come to this? Life separated us… I thought: “Goodbye”.
“At some point in 2019, I told Willie that he was not a sane person, following the newspaper gossip about Megan, calling her rude, difficult and irritable, instead of taking my side in a familiar way. “I’m trying to help you,” replied the brother. “Come on! Really? Help me? Is that what you call it?” I yelled. So the brothers fought.
ON SEX AND THE SWASTIKA
“I was a 17-year-old boy who dreamed of trying absolutely everything to shake the established order… At 17, I was using cocaine. It wasn’t much fun and I didn’t feel particularly happy like the others, but he made me feel different and that was my main goal. To feel. Be different… At someone’s house, after a weekend of hunting, I was offered “a clue” – and I have used many more than one since. “I was smoking cigarettes and cannabis, drinking straight on the golf course when I was at Eton… In 2016 in California I tried ‘magic mushrooms’ and saw a head growing in the bathroom trash can.”
The appearance of the prince in a Nazi uniform caused a shock in British society.
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“In 2005, I was invited to a Halloween costume party. I had a dilemma: wear a pilot suit or a Nazi uniform. I gravitated toward pilot clothing myself, but when William and Kate saw me in Nazi form, they laughed and insisted that I dress in it.”
“In 2001, when I was studying at Eton, one of the royal family’s bodyguards, Marco, paid me a visit… With a somber expression, he said he had been sent to ‘find out the truth’. I suspected he was referring to my recent loss of virginity, a humiliating episode with a 19-year-old woman who liked male horses and treated me like a young stud. I quickly got on top of her, after which he slapped me on the bottom of hers and sent me away from her. One of my many mistakes was letting it happen in a field just behind a very busy pub. No doubt someone saw us.”
ON THE MURDERS IN AFGHANISTAN
“I made six sorties in an Apache helicopter that claimed human lives… In the age of laptops, I can accurately name the number of militants killed. And it seemed important to me not to be afraid of this number. So my number is 25. This number doesn’t fill me with satisfaction, but it doesn’t bother me either… You can’t kill people if you see them as people, I saw them as chess pieces thrown from the board. . It was the removal of the bad guys before they could kill the good people.”
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ABOUT COMMUNICATION WITH THE MOTHER IN THE ASTRA
“The sadness for the death of my mother led me to ask for help from a woman who claimed to have “powers” and to be able to transmit messages. It was recommended to me by good friends. The moment we sat next to each other, I felt energy around her… She said, “Your mother is with you.” I replied: “I know. I’ve been feeling it lately.” The woman told me Diana’s words: “You’re living the life she couldn’t. You’re living the life she wanted for you.”
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How they will react to Harry’s revelations at Buckingham Palace can only be guessed at. The official coronation of his father is approaching soon, and if the prince is invited there with his wife, it can be assumed that he is forgiven. Otherwise, he is ordered on the way to the royal chambers. Harry himself, in an interview a couple of days ago, said: “Many things can happen, but the door is always open. The ball is in his court.”
