““Wonderful,” Charles reportedly said (viaBBC News).
“You have given me an heir and a spare.
You have done your job.”
This dynamic has shaped Harry’s life since birth, and it’s one he explores in his book.
Here are a few of the other startling revelations and claims that Harry makes in “Spare.”
It was 2019, the same year that Harry and Meghan’s oldest child was born.
Harry claims that William called Meghan “rude,” “abrasive,” and “difficult.”
I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me.
Harry claims he came away from the experience with bruises and cuts that were later noticed by Meghan.
So she’s staged an accident as a diversion and run away” (viaUSA Today).
Harry adds that believing his mother might have faked her death even made him feel better for a while.
Whatever Harry anticipated, it wasn’t this.
But the lip was nothing.
We barely felt it."
In the end, the choice to drive through the tunnel made things worse.
Instead, that was the night all doubt fell away.
She’s dead, I thought.
My God, she’s really gone for good."
After showing them the costume in person, he wrote, “They both howled.
Worse than Willy’s leotard outfit!
Which, again, was the point.”
Harry also met with a rabbi in London and a Holocaust survivor in Berlin, Germany.
Harry explains in the series, “It was probably one of the biggest mistakes in my life.
I felt so ashamed afterwards” (viaPage Six).
“Most soldiers don’t know exactly how many kills they have to their credit.
Under battle conditions, you often fire indiscriminately,” he wrote (viaWalesOnline.
As a result, Harry knows exactly how many “enemy combatants” he killed.
Harry claims that he is not proud of this, but he is also not embarrassed.
So my number: twenty-five" (viaTown & Country Magazine).
Harry goes on to assert that, in an ideal world, he’d like a different outcome.
Despite that, Charles and Camilla eventually married in 2005 (viaTown & Country).
In fact, he claims that both brothers discouraged their father from marrying Camilla altogether.
“The only thing we asked for in return was that he didn’t marry her.
During one part of the book, Harry admits to trying cocaine when he was 17 years old.
“Of course I had been taking cocaine at the time,” he writes. "
However, cocaine didn’t fully give Harry the experience he was looking for.
While the two were dating, she was playing Rachel Zane in the Canadian legal series “Suits.”
As he details in his memoir, he decided to watch the sex scenes and later regretted the choice.
I didn’t need to see such things live” (viaPage Six).
Harry writes that Charles was fond of incorporating the tale into stories.
“Pa liked telling stories, and this was one of the best in his repertoire.
He’d always end with a burst of philosophizing.
Who knows if I’m really the Prince of Wales?
Who knows if I’m even your real father?”
(viaTown & Country).
“Among the many things about it that were wrong.
It happened in a grassy field behind a busy pub,” he reveals.
Harry does not, however, confirm the identity of the woman in question.
The news left Harry saddened, as he wrote in a statement published on Archewell.com (viaCBS News).
I did not tolerate it from him."
Indeed, the Princess of Wales did not attend the gathering, as confirmed by the BBC.
In truth, Willy didn’t want me giving a best-man speech.
I might say something wildly inappropriate.
He wasn’t wrong" (viaUSA Today).
They’d openly scolded Willy about it many times."
This is something not everyone might be comfortable with, but it seems time was of the essence.
Meg squeezed some onto her finger and applied it to her lips.
Kate grimaced" (viaUSA Today).
Additionally, William took issue with Harry’s facial hair on his and Meghan’s wedding day.
She agreed, much to William’s chagrin.
