If there is a theme to this deluge of unsolicited information (“frostbitten penis” anyone), it’s a constant bristling against primogeniture and his love-hate relationship with his older brother William. It is all very nice if you are a super fan but if you didn’t particularly want to know about all their early trysts, it feels tedious – there are two whole pages describing them shopping for food and pretending not to know each other that could have been written (and written better) by his step-great grandmother Barbara Cartland.Īlso read: ‘Harry & Meghan’: What the First Episodes Reveal About Meghan’s Reputation Within the Royal Family His romance with his wife Meghan follows in the same vein, except she is “The One” and doesn’t dump him (Yay). His love affairs follow the same tired Hallmark movie pattern – prince meets free-spirited beautiful girl who doesn’t care about titles, love blossoms under the stars in Botswana/ Verbier/ other exotic location, tabloid intrusion, girl dumps Harry/ Harry dumps girl. He puts up pictures of elephants on his Instagram and takes all girls he likes camping in Botswana. Harry is literally the “gap yah” guy come to life. I was just one of the lads, he says, sublimely unaware that not many of the other lads get to cherry pick their deployments over tea with a general. (Your eyes glaze over and you look longingly at the rest of the room for someone to come rescue you as you murmur “yes uncle”). There are chapters and chapters of his military reminiscences that remind one of being cornered by an old army brigadier uncle at a wedding who won’t stop talking about that time in 1965 when his convoy came under fire by the Pakistani army. Harry’s own story shorn of his royal relatives is frankly dull. Titbits like his father reportedly going off to see his girlfriend on the day Harry was born would be libellous if untrue, but Harry, unlike the newspapers he dislikes so much, doesn’t have to worry about being sued.

And much like these tabloid headlines, much of what Harry says seems to come from hearsay. Spare by Prince Harry (Random House, January 10, 2023)Įach line of the book is a tabloid headline in itself.

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