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    What’s in Prince Harry’s memoir Spare? Here’s all we know so far

    Jan 06, 2023 6 minutes

    The Duke of Sussex’s tell-all memoir Spare is not sparing in its extraordinary revelations. After it went on sale in Spain ahead of official publication, excerpts have dominated media outlets. According to accounts, Harry writes on his deteriorating relationship with his brother, his despair over the death of his mother, and even about losing his virginity in a field behind a busy pub aged 17. The accounts are reinforced by a series of trails for TV interviews by Harry before the book is published.

    Heir and Spare

    Prince William was the heir, “whereas I was the spare”, Harry writes, according to reports in Friday’s newspapers. It was “shorthand” used by his father, now king, his mother, his grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, and “even Granny” – the late queen – the Times reports. There was “no judgment about it but also no ambiguity”. Harry was “the shadow, the support, the plan B”, and believes he was “brought into this world in case something happened”.

    He recounts hearing, aged 20, that his father allegedly said to his

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