Prince Harry released his explosive new memoir, Spare, on Tuesday and it immediately jumped to number one on several bestseller lists. Itâs worth noting the consensus at The Root is that The Duke of Sussex, along with wife Meghan Markle, should stop talking about themselves immediately. However, that wonât stop us from commenting on several revelations published in Spare that should have been saved for a therapistâs couch. Here are five of those confessions that should have never been made public.
There were rumors for years that the late Princess Diana had an affair with James Hewitt and that heânot King Charles IIIâis Prince Harryâs biological father. Harry was born in 1984 and the relationship between the two allegedly started in 1987. For reasons no one will understand, Harry felt the need to reveal that Charles would joke about not being his dad.
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âPa liked telling stories, and this was one of the best in his repertoire,â Harry wrote in the book. Apparently, Charles would remark: âWho knows if Iâm really the Prince of Wales? Who knows if Iâm even [Harryâs] real father? Maybe [Harryâs] real father is in Broadmoor, darling boy!â
The prince added: âNever mind that [his] mother didnât meet Major Hewitt until long after [he] was born, the story was simply too good to drop.â Itâs still messed up, fam.
Again, why does The Duke of Sussex feel moved enough to share how he embarrassingly lost his virginity to some random old lady? In Spare, he even called the moment an âinglorious episode.â Harry says he slept with âan older woman,â who âliked horses, quite a lot, and treated [him] not unlike a young stallion.â Um, what???
Luckily, he did not reveal the identity of the woman but said âit happened in a grassy field behind a busy pubâ and that âobviously someone had seen [them].â This occurrence can be seen as a pivotal moment in a young manâs life but this just sounds sad and like Harry was actually taken advantage of.
War is traumatic enough but the way Prince Harry insensitively discusses it in Spare is downright inhumane. He completed two tours of Afghanistan: one from 2007-2008 and another from 2012-2013. In the book, he said that âin the age of Apaches and laptops,â Harry knows âprecisely how many enemy combatants [he] killed. So, [his] number: Twenty-five. It wasnât a number that gave [him] any satisfaction. But neither was it a number that made [him] feel ashamed,â he stated.
He also wrote: âYou canât kill people if you think of them as people. You canât really harm people if you think of them as people. They were chess pieces removed from the board, Bads taken away before they could kill Goods. [Heâd] been trained to âother-izeâ them, trained well.â Prince Harry noted that this kind of thinking was âproblematicâ but it shouldnât have even been shared in the first place.
According to Spare, Harry begged his father not to marry Camillaâwho is currently Queen Consortâbecause he thought she would be a âwicked stepmother.â Bro, thatâs wild to even say out loud since King Charles III married her anyway??
â[Harry] recall[ed] wondering, right before the tea, if sheâd be mean to me. If sheâd be like all the wicked stepmothers in storybooks. But she wasnât. Like Willy, [Harry] did feel real gratitude for that,â Harry revealed. He also called Camilla the âother woman.â
â[William] merely gave me the impression that the Other Woman, Camilla, had made an effort, which he appreciated, and that was all he cared to say,â Harry wrote. Again, broâthatâs wild.
Youâd think that if someone wore a Nazi costume for Halloweenâand was publicly condemned for itâthey would just never bring it up again. Yet somehow Prince Harry couldnât help but write about the controversy in Spare. After the UK press dragged him for filth following the 2005 spectacle, he apologized by saying he was âvery sorry if [he] caused any offense or embarrassment to anyone.â
But in his memoir, he insists his brother and sister-in-law supported his decision. â[Harry] phoned Willy and Kate, asked what they thought. Nazi uniform, they said,â he claimed. â[Harry] rented it, plus a silly moustache, and went back to the house.â Regardless if the pair said that he should do it, the prince was grown AF when he decided to wear the racist garb. Has anyone ever told Harry that snitches still get stitches?
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