The publishers promised us a heartfelt and intimate memoir.
While the jury is out on that one, what we do know is that , William then reportedly went on to say: “Well, it’s rude, Meghan. These things are not done here.” Meghan is alleged to have responded: “If you don’t mind, keep your finger out of my face.”
He called a graveside meeting with Charles and William
At a meeting in a royal graveyard after Prince Philip’s death, Charles pleaded with his sons not to make his “final years a misery.” Call us naïve, but isn’t the point of calling a secret meeting not to tell anyone about it? Especially one in a graveyard.
Charles gave him the title for his book
On the day Harry was born, Charles allegedly told Diana, “Wonderful, now you’ve given me an heir and a spare. My work is done.”
Prince Harry grimaces during a polo match on June 18, 2003 in Windsor, England.
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Harry took lots of drugs
Harry describes smoking marijuana in his garden at his home in Kensington Palace and making sure the smell didn’t waft through to his neighbor, Prince Michael of Kent. He also says he took cocaine, cannabis and magic mushrooms. Under the influence of the latter, he became persuaded that a toilet had grown a head and was talking to him. “Psychedelic drugs also helped me. I had experimented with them throughout the years, for simple pleasure, but now I had started to take them for therapy, like medicine [to see] another world beyond my very limited sensory perception.”
Lost virginity in field to woman who compared him to a stallion
According to a translation posted on the Sky News website, Harry described his partner as “an older lady, who loved horses very much and treated me like a young stallion… I mounted her quickly, after which she spanked my ass and held me back… one of my mistakes was letting it happen in a field, just behind a busy pub. No doubt someone had seen us.”
The Daily Beast understands from friends of Harry’s set that the pub in question is a now-shuttered, formerly legendary hostelry in the Cotswolds where the “glossy posse” used to go after hunting, named The Tunnel House Inn—and known locally as the Tunnel.
He tried to contact Diana via a woman with “powers”
According to The Guardian, the woman told him: “You’re living the life she couldn’t. You’re living the life she wanted for you.”
Harry writes that on being told his mother was “with him,” his neck “grew warm” and his eyes watered, The Guardian reported. Harry said that before the visit to the psychic, Archie had smashed a Christmas tree ornament in the shape of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
This bizarre detail resurfaces when Harry visits the psychic, who says: “Your mother says… something about a Christmas ornament? Of a mother? Or a grandmother? It fell? Broke?… Your mother says she had a bit of a giggle about that.”
A man reads The Sun in London, Jan. 13, 2005 with a headline about Prince Harry wearing a Nazi uniform at a costume party.
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Harry part-blames William and Kate for Nazi costume
Harry writes that he was trying to choose between a pilot uniform or a Nazi uniform and called his brother for advice. “I phoned Willy and Kate, asked what they thought. Nazi uniform, they said.” Harry adds that he later tried the outfit on in front of them: “They both howled. Worse than Willy’s leotard outfit! Way more ridiculous! Which, again, was the point.”
He likes a nice room, with a nice view
Per Sky News, he considered it disrespectful “that one of the queen’s private secretaries parked next to his window and blocked out his bedroom light.” Later he complains that at Christmas at Sandringham in 2013, he was “given a mini room in a narrow back corridor.”
In another section, Harry and Meghan visit William and Kate in their apartment. He writes: “The wallpaper, the ceiling trim, the walnut bookshelves filled with volumes of peaceful colors, priceless works of art. Magnificent. Like a museum. We congratulated them on the renovation without holding back the compliments while feeling embarrassed of our IKEA lamps and the second-hand sofa we’d recently bought on sale with Meg’s credit card on sofa.com.” Such is the agony of being the spare!
And the glaring omission… Who was the royal racist?
In their interviews with Oprah Winfrey, the couple alleged that a member of the royal family asked them what color skin their then-unborn babies would be likely to have. They refused to identify the person beyond saying it wasn’t the queen or Prince Philip.
It seems odd the issue isn’t addressed in Spare, alongside Meghan’s experiences of racism within the family and at the hands of the British tabloids. Maybe he is saving this for the sequel, or one of the TV interviews to come.
