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1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Discover the global phenomenon that tells an unforgettable story of love, loss, courage, and healing. “Compellingly artful . . . [a] blockbuster memoir.”—The New Yorker (Best Books of the Year) It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry was known as the carefree one, the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. He struggled at school, struggled with anger, with loneliness—and, because he blamed the press for his mother’s death, he struggled to accept life in the spotlight. At twenty-one, he joined the British Army. The discipline gave him structure, and two combat tours made him a hero at home. But he soon felt more lost than ever, suffering from post-traumatic stress and prone to crippling panic attacks. Above all, he couldn’t find true love. Then he met Meghan. The world was swept away by the couple’s cinematic romance and rejoiced in their fairy-tale wedding. But from the beginning, Harry and Meghan were preyed upon by the press, subjected to waves of abuse, racism, and lies. Watching his wife suffer, their safety and mental health at risk, Harry saw no other way to prevent the tragedy of history repeating itself but to flee his mother country. Over the centuries, leaving the Royal Family was an act few had dared. The last to try, in fact, had been his mother. . . . For the first time, Prince Harry tells his own story, chronicling his journey with raw, unflinching honesty. A landmark publication, Spare is full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House


Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 10, 2023


Edition ‏ : ‎ First US Edition


Language ‏ : ‎ English, English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 416 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593593804


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 06


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.55 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 1.03 x 9.25 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #27,014 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #5 in Royalty Biographies #7 in Historical British Biographies #71 in Memoirs (Books)


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    • Beautifully Written
Format: Hardcover
I'm a 35 year old American and all I knew of the Royal family before Meghan married Harry was that my parents were sad when Diana died and that the grocery store checkout magazines always had headlines about them. I was kind of drawn in and charmed by the idea of them accepting Meghan and how pretty and warm she always looked (I remember sending a picture of her in a pale pink dress with a matching jacket when she was pregnant with her son to my group chat with a note about how oh my God she is the most gorgeous human ever) and it made me sad and angry when like...all of the media over there seemed to hate her all of a sudden. But even though I felt bad for her I never had strong feelings about Harry, he was just kinda there. Now? I freaking love Harry. Harry and Meghan fan for life. LIFE. I am shell-shocked at how freaking real and good this book is. I saw so many headlines leading up to the release that made the book sound like a (super fun tbh) mean and petty silly little airing of grievances. And instead it's this incredibly thoughtful, fair, raw depiction of both his family and his life. It kind of blows my mind the royals were so short sighted they willingly gave up what appears to be the only one among them with an ounce of emotional intelligence. He and Meghan are both so sincerely self-deprecating and open and honest and they contrast so dramatically against his family. The rest of them seem so stilted and fake and political and sneaky in comparison. How honest he is about his insecurities and ambitions and hopes and dreams and embarrassments is kind of stunning. Openly acknowledging what is complicated about England's history. Confessing freely to his own limitations in so many ways like Eminem in the battle scene in 8 Mile is ridiculous but kind of effective?! Like....he isn't pretending not to be upset about being thought stupid, about being a spare, about being single, about so many things. He's human and it hurt and I respect him for not doing the pretending to be unbothered thing. Also, he is insanely fair to his family. Far more than they seem to deserve!. He is so freaking kind to them. Going out of his way to defend Kate and Will from tabloid gossip and repeatedly explain why things that were said about them or done to them were unfair and untrue. He acknowledges being emotionally unavailable, even to his brother who would want to discuss their mother at times. He even defends his dad's reasoning on so many things and makes him seem bumbling and ineffectual rather than like the indifferently cruel and disinterested father he seemed like he must be before. Reading this book is the closest I have ever come to having any sympathy at all for the rest of the Royal family. They just seemed like cold selfish remote awful little rich people before but Harry's book makes them seem more human and likable and normal. Like people who if they hadn't been born to this might have actually stood a chance of being halfway decent but they were born into this and now they've just leaned into being unbearable cartoon villains for forever. The description of the bee, the fly, and the wasp? How he used to grocery shop? Such good writing. And him being painfully honest about him having mom issues and looking for mother figures and wanting to make people laugh and looking for signs in things. I know they're being mean about it in some headlines and I don't believe in signs or astrology or psychics or whatever myself but I know a lot of people who do. I think it's kind of normal and human after a big and unexpected loss. My friend lost her 12 year old son to an asthma attack that stopped his heart and she is constantly on the hunt for "signs". Connections, coincidences, messages. He's even fair about his mom. You can tell he knows he kind of puts her on a pedestal but he acknowledges she was imperfect, especially when he talks about her insecurity over them loving their nanny. I think the main takeaway from the book for me is how sad I feel for him. Because he seems to love everyone in his family for who they are. He sees them clearly, their flaws and weaknesses and strengths, and loves them. And you can just tell it wasn't ever reciprocated. Because none of them seem capable of loving him back. "How lost we are, I thought. How far we’ve strayed. How much damage has been done to our love, our bond, and why? All because a dreadful mob of dweebs and crones and cut-rate criminals and clinically diagnosable sadists along Fleet Street feel the need to get their jollies and plump their profits—and work out their personal issues—by tormenting one very large, very ancient, very dysfunctional family." Anyway, it is a really good book. I really enjoyed it, read it super fast, and highly recommend. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2023 by Amanda
    • Beyond the headlines, a sad tale of deep loss
Format: Kindle
Whatever your reasons for buying this book - whether it be mere curiosity about palace gossip or partaking in the frenzy around the fastest-selling nonfiction book of all time - you will get more out of it if you approach it with an open heart and mind. This well-written account of one of the most famous people in the world, ghostwritten by J.R. Moehringer, has a loose three-part structure: Harry’s early life (including the death of his mother), his 20s, and finally his life with Meghan. Moehringer is an expert storyteller, bringing to vivid life Harry’s thoughts, experiences and points of view. By the end of the book, you get a full understanding of not only why he chose to take a step back from royal life, but also why he chose to publish this for the world to read. Beyond the headlines and the tidbits about the book, it is an extremely sad tale. In some sense, Harry is lucky to have been born in modern times - royal families always suffered feuds and trysts, and in other times someone might have simply offed his head. Still, Harry has had a uniquely privileged - and uniquely terrible - life. Any child is much better off with a poor, loving set of parents than being wealthy and famous but losing your mother in the way Harry did. All of us of a certain age clearly remember Princess Diana’s death as one of the iconic moments of modern history, and seeing her children walk behind her coffin with millions of people viewing, couldn’t help but think, ‘Gosh, what could these children be thinking?’. Well, Harry tells us exactly what he thought at this moment, and thus brings private and public history together for the first time. He describes the incredible pain and isolation he felt, and how his lack of being able to remember her reduced his mother to nothing but a hole in his heart. It is easy to set up the book as a Harry & Meghan versus the Royal Family kind of tale, but the book is much more complicated than that. It raises serious questions about some of the most important issues we are grappling with, on a global scale: social media and its ill effects, the price of fame, and the tension between old traditions and modern times. For British audiences in particular, it raises - briefly - the question of what role the monarchy should continue to play in modern life, although Harry wisely says he cannot answer it himself. Harry was born to be a follower - he was never meant to rule, but at some point in his life he wanted to think for himself, and was not going to neatly fall in line with the institution that raised him, and take the abuses and slights - small and big - that he suffered. Instead, he chose to get up and leave for Los Angeles - the place where a man can remake himself anew and where there are so many other celebrities so it is easier to ‘blend in’. He is not the first royal to leave, but he is the first one to be able to tell us about the deal with the devil that Queen Elizabeth II made a long time ago with the press, and the personal costs it has exacted on his family, in a truthful and straightforward manner. I’m sure Queen Elizabeth did not intend for things to end this way. No grandmother wants to see her family split apart. But the way the palace - and by extension, his brother, father, and yes, Queen Elizabeth - treated Harry, is unforgivable. Harry and Meghan were dying by way of a thousand cuts via the work of palace courtiers, who maintained their job security by setting the royal family offices against each other via the press. But make no mistake, the royal family let them do that. It is not that Harry is against his father and brother. It is that he is so deeply disappointed with them, their lack of character, integrity, and true concern for the person who is supposed to be closest to them. So should we. When Harry decided to publish this memoir it was fairly clear to him that he was probably never going to mend the relationship with his family, and that those bridges were already burnt. So he went ahead and published a book, because nobody ever prepared him for a day job and now he has a mortgage to pay. But he also wrote the book because, I think, he really did need to tell his story, and it was important for him. Of course, there is another side to every story. But I tend to believe Harry more than I believe anyone else. With that said, haven’t we all had a lifetime’s worth of palace intrigue to indulge in? I hope Meghan and Harry, and all of us, can now move on. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2023 by Carl

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