9 intimate relationships you might have missed from Spare

After being evicted from Frogmore Cottage, Prince Harry is expected to fire “a lot of ammunition” at his family in a Q&A promoting his memoir today, but it’s just the latest in a long line of revelations.

Gabor Maté, 79, will join the Duke of Sussex on Saturday for a £17-a-head “intimate” virtual conference to discuss “living with loss and the importance of personal healing”, followed by a question and answer session. live responses.

The two will talk about “living with loss and the importance of personal healing” after Harry’s memories were dominated by his account of struggling to come to terms with the loss of his mother, Princess Diana.

However, the book also drew attention with intimate revelations about his frost-bitten penis and alluding to having sex with Meghan at Soho House.

While Harry’s comments about his ‘todger’ grabbed headlines around the world, there was no shortage of very personal details shared in the book.

Here, Femail reveals the 9 most intriguing revelations you might have missed, from Harry’s claim that the Queen’s spirit visited him as a hummingbird, to how he “weed his pants” just before his first date with Meghan.

1. ‘He peed his pants’ before his first date with Meghan

Before his first date with Meghan, whom he had been introduced to via Instagram, Harry took part in a five-hour sailing race, where there was no bathroom on board.

Then he needed to go to the bathroom, so he tried to relieve himself in the sea, but he got “stage fright” and couldn’t do it.

“Finally I went back to my post, sheepishly hung from the ropes and peed my pants,” she wrote: “Wow, I thought, if only Ms. Markle could see me now.”

The duke washed his dirty pants in the water and returned to London to meet Meghan.

2. William planned to shave Harry at his stag party

As Harry reminisced about his stag do, he wrote that William had planned to shave off his beard during the festivities.

Earlier in the book, Harry claimed that his brother was jealous and “livid” because the Queen had allowed him to keep his beard for their wedding, while William had to shave when he married Kate, in accordance with royal protocol. .

Harry said he wanted to de-stress and have fun at the stag party, but was worried that if he got too drunk and passed out, he’d wake up fresh-faced.

To prevent this from happening, he kept an eye on ‘Willy’ as he tried to enjoy his party.

Queen returns as a hummingbird

The Duke of Sussex wrote that he wished he could say ‘one more goodbye’ to his grandmother after arriving at Balmoral too late to see her before she died.

Back at his home in California after the funeral, a hummingbird managed to get into his Montecito home, which Harry initially thought nothing of, before one of his friends said it might be ‘a sign’.

According to Harry’s friend, Spanish explorers called hummingbirds “resurrection birds.”

She then asked if she had just had a visit from the late Queen, writing: “I thought hopefully, hungrily, foolishly: Is our home a detour or a destination?”

Then he thought about letting the bird stay before deciding against it and setting it free.

What the Queen thought of Archie and Lilibet

At Spare, Harry recalled a bittersweet memory: the last time his son Archie and daughter Lilibet (named after their grandmother) saw the Queen before she passed away.

He said Archie bowed to the late monarch while Lilibet clung to the Queen’s shins.

Their grandmother was delighted, describing them as the ‘sweetest children’.

Harry wrote: ‘She expected them to be a bit more… American, I think? Which means, in her mind, more boisterous.

Holding Meghan’s hair while she was sick

Prince Harry also wrote about the moment Meghan met his cousin Eugenie and her now-husband, Jack Brooksbank.

Meghan had cooked salmon for them and they talked about a number of topics, including outfits and where she had traveled.

They then moved on to tequila, and shortly after, Meghan said she wasn’t feeling well and went to bed early.

While Harry initially thought she was a “lightweight”, he woke up to hear his soon-to-be wife throwing up in the bathroom.

It then emerged that the Duchess had eaten calamari at a restaurant for lunch and Harry grabbed her hair as she vomited.

He wrote: ‘I rubbed her back and finally put her to bed. Weak, on the verge of tears, she said that she had imagined a very different ending to date four.

Charles listens to ‘storybooks’ in the bathroom

The future king’s bathtime habits were also mentioned in Harry’s memoirs, as he revealed how Charles liked to take a portable CD player into the bathroom with him.

He recalled a childhood incident and said: ‘Dad carried his ‘wireless’, which is what he called his portable CD player, on which he liked to listen to his ‘storybooks’ while getting soaked.

The Queen used earplugs to block out the music at her Diamond Jubilee concert

Paul McCartney sang ‘Her Majesty’ and Brian May, Queen’s lead guitarist, played ‘God Save the Queen’ at a concert to mark Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

And while Harry was suffering from a headache, he looked at the late monarch who danced and did not get tired.

On closer inspection, Harry said he noticed the Queen couldn’t hear anything, because she was wearing yellow earplugs to block out ‘loud’ music.

He wrote: “More than ever, I wanted to give my grandmother a hug.”

Harry got high after his first date with Meghan

In his book, the Duke of Sussex wrote that he met up with a friend after his date with Meghan and smoked weed.

He said he told his partner how it went and then “the tequila came out.” He got out the grass.

They sat down and watched the cartoon Inside Out and Harry described himself as numb before writing: ‘good weed friend’.

He then panicked when he received an impromptu video call from his future wife, which he answered.

Harry said he “loved” Meghan’s freckles before she claimed they would be removed “every time” she was photographed.

The King’s Favorite Aftershave

Prince Harry revealed in his memoir his father’s favorite fragrance to wear, Eau Sauvage de Dior, which he would ‘smear on’.

Harry said the aftershave was “floral, with a hint of something strong, like pepper or gunpowder”.

He added that the bottle said the product was made in Paris, which made him “think of mom.”