A bereaved boy, a troubled teenager, a wartime soldier, an unhappy royal family – the many facets of Prince Harry are revealed in his explosive memoir, often with frowning detail. I’m here.From Accounting for Cocaine Use and Loss of Virginity raw family rift‘Spare’ publishes personal details about Harry and the wider royal family.
of Associated Press I bought a copy of the Spanish language version of the book before it is published worldwide on Tuesday. The revelation excited the British media, but was met with silence from Buckingham Palace.
brother and son
The book opens with a quote from American author William Faulkner. Nor is it the past. ”
Harry’s story is dominated by his rivalry with his brother, Prince William, and the death of the boy’s mother, Princess Diana, in 1997. pursued by photographers. The loss of his mother haunts the book. Harry dedicates to wife Meghanchildren Archie and Lili “And of course, my mother”.
Prince Harry waits for Princess Diana’s coffin to be loaded into a hearse outside Westminster Abbey in London on September 6, 1997. (AP Photo)
The opening chapter tells how his father, Prince Charles (now King Charles III), broke the news of his mother’s accident but did not hug his son.
Years later, Harry asked his driver to take him through the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris, the site of the fatal crash, in the hope that it would put an end to “ten years of constant pain.” clarified. He also says he has consulted a woman who claims she has “powers” and can pass on messages from Diana. He added that he had “begged” his father not to marry his longtime lover, Camilla Parker-Bowles, out of fear that he might become ill.
Harry has also struggled with his status as a royal “spare” behind William, the heir to the British throne. Talks about a long-standing sibling rivalry that deteriorated after it began: During an altercation in 2019, William called Meghan “difficult” and “rude,” then called him a collar and beat him.
Harry landed in a dog bowl and suffered cuts and bruises. Harry says Charles begged his brother to reconcile after Prince Philip’s funeral in 2021. Please don’t let my end be tragic. Neither Buckingham Palace, representing Charles III, nor Williams’ Kensington Palace office have commented on either allegation.
Britain’s 18-year-old Prince Harry punches the air on June 12, 2003, in Windsor, England, as he graduates from Eton College, a top public school where he spent five years as a student. (AP Photo)
Wild Teenage Years
This memoir suggests Harry’s image as a party boy in the media during his teenage years and adolescence was a given. Harry told how he lost his virginity at age 17 to an elderly woman in the field behind the pub who loved horses and treated the teenage prince like a “young stallion.” It was a “humiliating episode,” he says.
He also says he took cocaine several times starting at the same age “to feel”. Be different. “He also admits to using cannabis and magic his mushrooms.
army revelation
Harry is 10 years in the British Army, served twice in Afghanistan. He said he made his second tour from 2012 to 2013 as co-pilot and gunner in his Apache helicopter, killing 25 Taliban militants.
British Prince Harry, known in the British Army as Captain Wales, or simply Captain Wales, at the British-administered airfield at Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan, October 31, 2012. (AP Photo)
Harry said he felt neither satisfied nor embarrassed by his actions, and in the midst of battle he viewed enemy combatants as pawns to be removed from the chessboard.
Veterans criticized the comments, saying they could increase security risks for Harry. said, “This is not how the British Army trains people.”
“I think that kind of comment, which does not reflect reality, is misleading and potentially valuable to those who want to harm the British military and the British government,” he told the BBC.
Taliban returned to power Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Kahal Barki called the Western invasion of Afghanistan “abhorrent” and Harry’s comments were “at the hands of the occupying forces who killed innocent people with no accountability.” It is a microcosm of the trauma that Afghans have experienced.”
personal journey
Harry believes Meghan has changed the way he sees the world and himself.
The young prince famously wore a Nazi uniform to a costume party in 2005, and in the book, William and his current wife Kate Encouraging costume choices and “howling” with laughter when I saw it. He was documented in 2006 using racist language about his fellow soldiers of Pakistani descent, not knowing that the language was slanderous.
News agent Roy Ottway published a photo of Britain’s Prince Harry attending a fancy dress party in the uniform of a Nazi soldier at London’s King’s Cross station on January 13, 2005, for tabloid The Sun. read a copy of (AP photo)
Meghan and Harry cited the British media’s treatment of biracial American actresses as one of the main reasons. The decision to resign from royal duties And in 2020, he moved to the United States.
The book shows no signs that royal relations will soon be mended. In an ITV interview to promote the book, Harry said he wants a reconciliation, but there must be “accountability” first.
On the last page Harry explains how he walked side by side with William. Funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth II In September, we barely said a word to each other. “Meg and I returned to the United States the next day,” he says.
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