‘Idiot’: Londoners react to Prince Harry’s book
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Prince William is “burning” with anger over claims made by Prince Harry in his leaked memoirs but “would never retaliate”, close friends of the Prince of Wales have said.
William’s confidant described him as a “sitting duck” amid the copious revelations made by the Duke of Sussex in his new book Spare, a memoir dominated by his rivalry with his brother and the death of his mother, the princess Diana, in 1997.
Hinting at the royal mood behind closed doors, a friend told The Sunday Times that the Prince of Wales had kept quiet “for the sake of his family and the country”. “William is a sitting duck because Harry knows he won’t retaliate. How many shots can you take at a sitting duck?” the source told the newspaper.
“It’s cruel, cowardly and very sad for William to keep taking the hits. He’s keeping quiet for the sake of his family and the country.”
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“You can’t cry in public because of the family’s preference not to show emotion”
Prince Harry says in the book that he believes he cannot cry in public because of his family’s preference not to show emotion.
According to the Daily Telegraph, Harry writes: “I didn’t like the touch of those hands. What’s more, I didn’t like how they made me feel: guilty.
Prince William and Prince Harry, the sons of Diana, Princess of Wales, bow their heads as their mother’s coffin leaves Westminster Abbey after her funeral
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“Why was there all this crying from people when I hadn’t even cried?
“I wanted to cry, and I had tried, because my mother’s life had been so sad… but I couldn’t… not even a drop.
“Perhaps I had learned too well, absorbed too thoroughly the familiar maxim that crying was never an option, never.”
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“He felt the tears of the mourners at hand”
Prince Harry describes feeling the tears of mourners in his hands as he shook them, following the death of his mother, Princess Diana.
“There were 50,000 bouquets of flowers for our mother and we shook hands with people there, smiling,” he says.
Diana’s brother Earl Spencer, her son Prince Harry and her ex-husband Prince Charles join the hearse carrying the Princess of Wales’ coffin on Marlboro Road in London during the funeral.
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“I’ve seen the videos, haven’t I, I looked back at it all. And the wet hands that we were shaking, we couldn’t understand why his hands were wet, but it was all the tears that he was wiping away.
“Everyone thought and felt that they knew our mother, and the two people closest to her, the two people dearest to her, could not show any emotion at that moment.”
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Harry says he only cried once after mum died
The Duke of Sussex has said he only cried once after his mother’s death and has described feelings of guilt in one of a series of interviews ahead of the publication of his memoir.
In a clip from Harry: The Interview, which airs on ITV at 9pm on Sunday, Harry talks about being unable to show any emotion as he met with mourners following the death of his mother Princess Diana of Wales, in 1997.
She also admits to feeling “a bit guilty” as she walked through the crowd gathered outside Kensington Palace, saying the only time she cried was at her mother’s funeral.
Read the report to learn more about what he said in the interview:
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Harry accused of making Invictus Games a terrorist target with Taliban claims
The Duke of Sussex has been accused of making the Invictus Games a target for extremists by revealing he killed 25 people in Afghanistan.
The retired admiral told the Sunday Mirror that the Invictus Games, due to be held in Düsseldorf, Germany in 2023, will now have “serious security issues” because of their direct connection to Harry.
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Further revelations are “unlikely” to sway British opinion
Polls suggest that many Britons are growing bored with all the royal melodrama, and further revelations are unlikely to sway their views, whether sympathetic to Harry and Meghan or to their critics.
However, Harry’s book was No.1 on Amazon UK’s bestseller list yesterday, available for pre-order ahead of release.
Royal commentator Emily Andrews said that given Britain’s current cost of living crisis, there could be limited support for the complaints of a privileged prince living in a mansion in California.
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex arrive at the 2022 Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award Gala at the Hilton Midtown in New York on December 6, 2022
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“They’re polarizing, Harry and Megan, and I think this new Harry book probably isn’t going to change a lot of people’s opinions,” Andrews told Reuters.
“I think this is overkill, it becomes a saturation point and people think ‘I don’t want to hear any more: shut up, go away’.”
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It makes no sense to “keep quiet”
Prince Harry’s public thoughts will keep coming, with three more TV interviews due to air. They had been scheduled to air ahead of the official launch of Harry’s book on Tuesday, and excerpts released ahead of time have shown Harry saying he wanted to give his side of the story.
“I don’t know how staying silent is going to make things better,” Harry says in his interview with Britain’s ITV, which will be the first to be shown.
All this comes just four months after the death of Queen Elizabeth and Charles accedes to the throne.
A woman poses as she watches an episode of the recently released Netflix docuseries ‘Harry and Meghan’ about Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Duchess of Sussex, in London on December 8, 2022.
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“So here’s Charles trying to establish himself as the new king and now Harry has thrown this hand grenade and everything is crashing down around him,” royal biographer Tina Brown said.
Ever since Harry and Meghan stepped down from royal duties and moved to California in 2020, they have criticized the treatment of the royals and the palace establishment.
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Prince Harry set out to offer more bands to the UK royal family in TV interviews
Days after Prince Harry’s memoirs accidentally went on sale early amid fresh allegations of discord and conflict within Britain’s royal family, a series of television interviews with him will begin airing on Sunday with the prospect of more attacks harmful to the monarchy.
Harry’s book “Spare”, which went on sale in Spain on Thursday five days before its official launch, not only recounts very personal details, such as how he lost his virginity and took drugs, but also reveals more intimate and deprived of family discord.
A poster announcing the release of Prince Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’ is seen in a shop window on January 6, 2023 in London, England.
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His older brother, heir to the throne, Prince William, felled him in a fight, and both brothers begged their father, King Charles, not to marry his second wife, Camilla, now Queen Consort, says the book
Commentators say it has plunged the monarchy into its biggest crisis since the royal soap opera days of the 1990s surrounding the breakdown of Charles’ marriage to his late first wife, Princess Diana, William’s mother and Harry
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Tom Peck: ‘Prince Harry’s real betrayal is showing the royal family who they are’
Harry’s revelations prove that they are exactly what they’ve always been: absolutely nothing special, and that won’t do, writes Tom Peck.
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All the explosive revelations and claims from Harry Spare’s leaked book so far
Prince Harry has continued his seemingly endless stream of allegations and revelations about the royal family in his new autobiography.
Leaked ahead of official release, Spare covers a wide range of subjects, from his tumultuous relationship with brother William to the struggles following the death of his mother Diana in 1997.
With excerpts from the Duke of Sussex’s revealing book leaked ahead of its publication, here are the claims and revelations so far:
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Timeline of the fight between Prince Harry and William
Prince Harry’s new memoir, Spare, has caused a sensation before it has been published, particularly because of a passage describing an altercation with his brother William, which illustrates how far the pair have grown apart in recent years. years.
The row is said to have erupted at Nottingham Cottage in the grounds of Kensington Palace in London in 2019, with the Duke of Sussex claiming his brother had arrived “hot” to confront him about his marriage to the actress American Meghan Markle and her career. battles with the British press.
After a bitter exchange in which William allegedly called Ms Markle “difficult”, “rude” and “abrasive” and Harry accused his brother of playing up the media narrative about their relationship, the former attacked him, according to the young prince’s account. .
Here’s my colleague Joe Sommerlad with a timeline of his downfall, largely as told by Harry since his break with the family, with William, next in line to the British throne, preferring largely remain silent.
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