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Prince Harry’s new memoir unleashes staggering attacks on his family, leaked copies revealed today.
Attacks rain down in every chapter: from accusations that his brother assaulted him in a fight over Meghan to claims that William and his father Carlos confronted him after Prince Philip’s funeral “picking a fight.”
Harry also alleges that William and Kate, his once-adored sister-in-law now portrayed as cold and unsympathetic, urged him to wear his infamous Nazi costume.
The prince, who stepped down as a royal and moved to California with Meghan in search of more privacy, recalls dozens of family feuds and intimate conversations in excruciating detail. He reveals his father’s medical ailments and the fact that the King still carries his favorite teddy bear with him.
Harry claims that his brother and his brother’s wife encouraged him to wear his now infamous Nazi costume uniform.
King Charles III looks on as he leaves Sandringham on Thursday after leaks of Harry’s memoir began.
He does not cease his bitterness at having been typecast as William’s heir ‘Spare’, the title of his ghostwritten memoirs.
He presents his brother as his ‘arch-nemesis’, Queen Consort Camilla as an ‘evil stepmother’ and Charles as an emotionally stunted and ineffective ‘old man’.
In other staggering revelations, Harry, 38:
Spare was supposed to be published on Tuesday amid a huge secrecy sting by its publisher, Penguin Random House. But yesterday, in a very embarrassing error, copies were put up for sale in bookstores all over Spain despite the signs on the boxes that said “will not open until January 10”.
Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace declined to comment and were frantically digesting the contents of Harry’s 570+ page rant last night.
While some expressed sympathy for the prince’s clear ongoing emotional anguish over the tragic loss of his beloved mother, many will see it as a monstrous, and possibly unforgivable, betrayal of his family just four months after the late queen’s death.
A source who knew Elizabeth well said last night they were “almost comforted” that she was not alive to see what her grandson had done.
‘Her Majesty would have been devastated,’ they said. Harry’s long-awaited memories are even more explosive than Buckingham Palace insiders feared.
He admits to taking cocaine regularly at 17, but boasts about getting the palace to lie to a journalist about it.
The prince also claims he was innocent of the racism allegations when he was caught on video using the ‘P*** word’ to describe a fellow Asian Sandhurst cadet, saying he didn’t know it was an insult and thought it was like calling to an American a ‘Yankee’.
But it is your discussion of relationships with family members that is most damaging. The book covers all aspects of his life, tracing the disconnect with his older brother, whom he calls ‘Willy’, which began from the moment he was born, when Charles allegedly stated that he had complied with the duty of him
He accuses William, 40, of being caught up in his position as future heir to the throne, says he ignored him when they were students at Eton College and repeatedly put him in his place.
In one paragraph, Harry, affectionately referred to as “Harold” by his family, describes himself as being born to be his older brother’s “spare kidney”.
Harry also accuses his older brother of being the aggressor during the ‘Megxit’, claiming that their relationship had become so strained and damaged that William only scowled at him.
He describes several particularly awkward meetings between himself, Meghan, William and Kate, saying that his brother and sister-in-law seemed uncomfortable being embraced by their bride-to-be.
Prince William with his wife Kate, with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex behind, at Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.
The Duchess of Sussex sits behind the then Duchess of Cambridge as they attend the Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey.
The startling revelations come after copies of Harry’s memoir Spare were released in Spain on Thursday.
It also appears to accuse the Princess of Wales of overreacting by demanding an apology from Meghan after she fell out with Kate over wedding plans.
Apparently, Kate was offended that Meghan blamed forgetfulness on “baby brain” after the birth of Prince Louis.
Harry also reveals that the two couples even argued over seating plans and whether William and Kate should be together.
He says that when William stood up to Meghan and defended his wife, Meghan told the prince, ‘Get your finger out of my face.’ Although Charles is spared more pain than many expected, Harry paints him as an ineffective father who couldn’t even hug him when he told him about his mother’s death in a car accident.
She says that when she confided in Charles that she had suffered from panic attacks as an adult, the prince looked sadly at his plate and said that it had failed him.
Yet, in what are sure to be harrowing passages for the King, Harry describes how when he returned to the UK to attend Prince Philip’s funeral in 2021, a clearly distraught Charles cried to his warring sons not to make their “last years a pittance”. .
Harry claims that he and William got into an explosive fight over Meghan, which resulted in his brother grabbing him by the neck, breaking his collar and throwing him to the ground, breaking and hurting himself in a dog bowl. Then he didn’t call his wife first, but her therapist, he says.
And William, he claims, is his ‘arch-nemesis’ and ‘polar opposite’.
As for the queen consort, who comes off relatively lightly in the book, Harry says that he and William begged their father not to marry the ‘other woman’, fearing she was their ‘evil stepmother’, but he adds that they eventually came to tolerate her. .
However, the fifth in line to the throne accuses Camilla of leaking stories about him through a palace press adviser.
The loss of his mother, Princess Diana, is also a central theme of the memoir, to which Harry returns repeatedly.
He dedicates the book to her along with Meghan and their two children.
He dreams repeatedly that his mother might return, and once turned to a woman with “powers” who passed him a message from Diana saying that she was “living the life that she couldn’t.”
The prince also writes in the book about drinking his first cocktail with the Queen Mother and teaching her to imitate TV character Ali G.
In interviews arranged to promote the memoir, of which more trailers have also been released, an emotional Harry declines to say whether he will attend his father’s coronation this spring, but denies invading William and Charles’ privacy by revealing intimate details. in his book.
Goading the royals, Harry says “the ball is in his court” to work out the consequences if he attends the event on May 6.
Prince Harry, pictured here in Afghanistan in 2013, has claimed that he killed 25 Taliban fighters while in the military.
The Duke of Sussex was seen walking his dog, Pula, in the California rain on Wednesday, hours before excerpts from his memoir were leaked.