Dickie Arbiter demands an apology from Prince Harry after he was apparently blamed for a misquote

A former palace aide has demanded a public apology because he believes a quote from Prince Harry’s memoirs appears to have been wrongly attributed to him.

Dickie Arbiter, 82, was press secretary to the late Queen Elizabeth but does not appear in the Duke of Sussex’s Spare.

However, he says that a quote in the book could be construed as being from him, and he would like the publisher to apologize.

In Spare, Prince Harry discusses 2020 MailOnline article: ‘Make no mistake, it’s an insult’: Fleet Street jury says Meghan and Harry can wait ‘mercilessly’ after their shock decision to ‘go rogue’ and give up.

In which a panel of commentators called the ‘Fleet Street jury’ gave their opinion on Harry and Meghan’s decision to step back from royal duties.

Prince Harry wrote about his thoughts on the article, saying: “Among them was the Queen’s press secretary, who concluded, with his fellow jurors, that henceforth ‘let us expect no mercy’.

I shook my head. “Mercilessly”. The language of war?

The 82-year-old believes the “expect no mercy” quote about Megxit seems to be attributed to him in Spare

Arbiter is the group’s only former press secretary and says the wording will make readers think he said “expect no mercy” when he didn’t.

The quote came from broadcaster and former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Sir Trevor Phillips.

Arbiter told The Times: “I think a number of people have interpreted the quote as coming from me, when it clearly did not, that an apology is in order.”

“There are a number of errors in the book and future copies need to be corrected.”

He said an acceptable form of ‘public apology’ from the publisher would be a post on social media, as it would be widely seen.

The Ghostwriter of Prince Harry has defended Spare from damaging claims of inaccuracy and historical error, insisting that “inadvertent errors” are common in memoirs where “the line between memory and fact is blurred.”

Prince Harry’s explosive memoir is full of startling claims, and some have questioned the historical accuracy of the facts presented. JR Moehringer (right), Harry’s ghostwriter, defended the book on Wednesday, saying the memoir deals with the subject’s own view of events.

JR Moehringer, who also authored autobiographies for Andre Agassi and Nike co-founder Phil Knight, defended the book for which he was allegedly paid $1 million.

Sharing an excerpt from Harry’s book, he emphasized that the prince himself admits at times that he is unsure of the accuracy of all the details he shares, often saying this stems from trauma in his childhood. But in the same book he also insists: ‘It’s important that history be right.’

Moehringer tweeted Harry’s words: “Whatever the cause, my memory is my memory… there is as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there are so-called objective facts.” He also tweeted a quote from Mary Karr, author of The Art of Memoir, which read: “The line between memory and fact is blurred, between interpretation and fact. There are inadvertent errors of this type out of the ordinary.

Harry has been accused of a litany of factual errors, including claims that he was a descendant of King Henry VI, that he was given an Xbox before they were made and that Meghan’s father bought a Mexico-London plane ticket on Air New Zealand. , which does not fly that route.