Prince Harry never ceases to indulge in the family animosities that led him to leave the United Kingdom.
Gossips will say that at least Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 will have been spared this quarrel between her grandsons, which is taking on a surreal media dimension. After the release of a long documentary on Netflix, devoted to his love affair with Meghan Markle and the way in which he escaped from the leaden screed of the monarchy, Harry publishes a testimonial book, ” memoirs” itself, titled “Spare”. A word that can be translated as “spare” or “second violin”: the French publisher Fayard who publishes the work in French has chosen: “Le suppléant”. In short, a title that clearly marks how the prince harry has always considered himself: as a replacement, a stand-in, in the shadow of a brother destined to ascend the throne of the United Kingdom.
The book, published Tuesday, January 10, contains several long paragraphs devoted to his relationship with his brother, as much to say that the English tabloids will have enough to feed a soap opera over several weeks. For Harry, the book has two main virtues: if we ignore the amount of the check made by its British publisher Bentam Gb, we can imagine that it is considerably substantial. Prince Harry, however, has pledged to donate huge sums to several charities for sick children. But publishing this book is also a way for Harry to deliver his version of the facts in a story carefully written with the assistance of JR Moehringer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
The work is presented by the French publisher as “of raw and unvarnished honesty”, a “book that will mark a milestone, full of insight, revelations, self-questioning and hard-learned lessons about eternal power. of love in the face of sorrow”. A nice way to present a text, over 500 pages, in which Prince Harry develops a long statement to explain his distance from the royal family and why what he calls “The institution” is, according to him, a toxic universe . Some British media, The Guardian and The Sunday Times have had preview access, have already given some excerpts and general comments. If Harry distils throughout his story sarcasm and criticism of his brother and the way in which the royal family adjusts to a very tight protocol, it is above all the description of a violent argument that stands out as the highlight of the story. work. Harry says William had harsh words for Meghan Markle, calling her a “difficult” and “rude” woman during an argument in 2019. The young prince says he was “grabbed by the collar” and thrown to the ground. “I landed on the dog bowl, which broke under my back,” he said. “Personally, I do not see how Harry and William will be able to reconcile after that”, comments a relative of the family with Sunday Times.
Harry and William, an argument that lasts
For the past few years, the British people press has been gargling rumors and confessions from relatives of William and Harry about their complicated relationship. Many observers have seen a deterioration in this relationship in 2005. And for good reason, as Harry writes in his book Spare, an event has considerably estranged them: in January of this year, he went to a party disguised as a Nazi, he says in his book that he did it on the recommendation of the couple Harry and William, who were hilarious at the idea. Except that the younger brother was severely criticized, around the world, without his brother being splashed by the scandal. “One of the biggest mistakes of my life,” he wrote in Spare.
Can Harry and William patch things up? “I would like to find my father and my brother”, he said in an interview given to the British channel ITV, broadcast on Sunday January 8, but he also adds about the royal family: “They have the impression that there is better to continue to make us look like the bad guys. Prince William’s response could be much less sensationalist than the attacks formulated: according to confidences of relatives of the crown prince, he could not react at all publicly so as not to fuel a media soap opera that would serve the royal family. We must therefore expect a circumstantial silence from Harry, even if this reserve would have something to surprise. Buckingham’s services have already responded, on January 3, indicating to the “Telegraph” that the king has always “made it clear how much he loves his two sons and that he has kept the channels of communication open over the past few years, despite numerous attacks from California”.