Not interested in all 407 pages of Spare? Here's a breakdown of the biggest bombshells Prince Harry dropped in his new tell-all memoir.
, the former senior royal still manages to make surprising new claims against his family and his life within the royal family.
"He'd gone there. He'd used the secret code, the universal password," Harry writes."Ever since we were boys those three words were to be used only in times of extreme crisis." "I was the shadow, the support, the Plan B," he writes."I was brought into the world in case something happened to Willy. I was summoned to provide back-up, distraction, diversion and, if necessary, a spare part. Kidney, perhaps. Blood transfusion. Speck of bone marrow. This was all made explicitly clear to me from the start of life's journey and regularly reinforced thereafter.
"With nothing to do but roam the castle and talk to myself, a suspicion took hold, which then became a firm belief," he recalls."This was all a trick. And for once the trek wasn't being played by the people around me, or the press, but by Mummy." Harry later shares that he told William about his theory.
"I'd been short with her," he writes."Impatient to get back to my games, I'd rushed Mummy off the phone." Returning home for a break, Harry says his father brought him on an official trip to South Africa where he encountered the Spice Girls in the first public appearance since his mother's death. "Mummy saw Tiggy not as a nanny but as a rival," he writes."It's common knowledge that Mummy suspected Tiggy was being groomed as her future replacement." He recalls getting high at Eton school, saying he would smoke pot and watch"I felt an inexplicable bond with Stewie, prophet without honor," he writes."I knew this was bad behavior. I knew it was wrong. My mates knew it too.
"I put it out of my mind and tried to focus on the good," Harry writes."Pa is here, I told myself, and he's proud, and that's not nothing." While in Africa on his gap year, Harry gives an interview where he's asked about his mother's death, his drug addiction, and his reported romance with a"page three girl." He notes that he was shocked to be the first speaking out about Diana considering William always went before him.
"Despite Willy and me urging him not to, Pa was going ahead," Harry claims with regard to the April 2005 wedding."We pumped his hand, wished him well. No hard feelings. We recognized that he was finally going to be with the woman he loved, the woman he’d always loved, the woman Fate might’ve intended for him in the first place. Whatever bitterness or sorrow we felt over the closing of another loop in Mummy’s story, we understood that it was besides the point.
"Maybe she'd be less dangerous if she was happy?" he ponders, claiming Camilla had"sacrificed me on her personal PR altar." Seeking closure of the tragic 1997 death of his mother, Princess Diana, Prince Harry writes he chose to drive through the same Paris tunnel where she died, going the same speed she was going at the time.
He called the decision a"very bad idea," writing,"I'd thought driving the tunnel would bring an end, or brief cessation, to the pain, the decade of unrelenting pain. Instead it brought on the start of Pain, Part Deux."Harry writes that contrary to reports at the time, he and Chelsy didn't break up before he shipped off to Afghanistan. They stayed together and she promised to wait for him.
After William and Kate got engaged, Harry admits to being forced to think about his"singlehood" more.
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