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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 Edition


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 416 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593593804


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 06


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.55 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.38 x 1.24 x 9.56 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #24,558 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2 in Royalty Biographies #4 in Historical British Biographies #86 in Memoirs (Books)


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    • Sad, Whimsical, Dark, Comedic, Introspective…words cannot describe you just have to read it
I don’t really read these kinds of books. I’m addicted to sci fi and historical romance and intake most my gossip/nonfiction news from social media mediums and independent research (Tik Tok and Twitter). I don’t think I’ve ever read a biography, autobiography, or memoir outside of an educational setting. I picked this up just bc I was interested in all the weird excerpts the media put all over headlines in the days leading up. I’m also a big supporter of evaluating primary sources first-hand as my liberal arts bachelors degree taught me before I form opinions. I expected a celebrity tell-all gossip piece.. BUT, this piece took my breath away. I read it in one night and went through so many emotions. I had to put it down multiple times to laugh, cry, and self reflect. Well-done to Harry taking the hard step to be vulnerable to the world in his own way and taking control of his narrative and his writer is absolutely so talented. The writer is so magnificent, I cannot say it enough. This book is going to be analyzed in classrooms, positively, negatively, analytically one day as it touches on coming-of age, literature and motifs, the most recent war, and a love story and a social and political discourse on British press and its relationship with the Palace. People are going to be talking about this book for ages and as Meghan and Harry seem to be really polarizing to some. I recommend anyone supporter or not, British or American, read this book first and form your own opinions. Clear your mind of the bias from what you know of Harry from the press and media and read it about a story of a boy growing into a man. It’s really quite good when you look past you’re own biases. Harry’s really grown when it comes to his own biases and privilege and this book really explores that growth in a first person POV that also causes to reader to take a step back and evaluate themselves but I do think he needs to sit on his support of a Monarchy a bit more lol…it was nice as an American to understand British culture a bit more though and I feel like I was able to put myself in the other Royals shoes and humanize them as well! Since Meghan and Harry are the only ones who we’ve been able to authentically hear from as of late. I know a lot of people will speak on his chapters of his experiences in the war negatively, and to be honest. I wasn’t expecting that kind of candor and rawness and it resonated with me but in a introspectively beneficial way..as someone who is currently in the neo-stage of their military officer career (I only joined because I wanted to be a leader and get college paid but I’ve been more introspective on leadership and military more lately) I had to take military history classes when I was in college, I read many textbooks and memories who recount experiences similar to his from the civil war, Vietnam and WW1/2 perspective and we analyzed them relentlessly…but I haven’t seen a lot of memoirs from veterans from the War on Terror or from non-Americans. With the peacetime the U.S. is in I guess I doubt I’ll be serving long enough to ever experience the trauma he went through and it helps me understand the PTSD of modern soldiers and those veteran NCOs I work with. That section made me really introspective about the military and the way we’re trained and the discourse around the ethics of it even though his military experience is from a different country. (Side note this really helped me realize how important OPSEC is lol I literally screamed OPSEC at the book at one point). I enjoy the way he recounted his childhood and his relationship with his family. It was very tactful and well-written and I think every comment that a tabloid has pulled as “offensive” out of context was balanced out throughout the book as we really delved into the nuances of family and our childhoods. The people he mentions in this book are not just characters and celebrities in a show or tabloid but real people who are multifaceted and there is no antagonist and protagonist in real life. He also kept it spicy with the funny TMI moments about his social life and ~extracurricular~ activities. The random celebrity name drops were hilarious to me with his sarcastic tone and obviously not ill-mannered or narcissistic as I saw some implied. I think that was the perfect amount of comedy and tiny factoids that are ultimately harmless and affect no one except entertain the reader. I’m a very TMI person and the way he exposed embarrassing moments is the way I talk to my inner circle of friends and I felt like I was listening to a friend tell me a story on girls night. I saw on Twitter people were offended by the TMI but let’s be honest, if he hadn’t left in the spicy/funny comments people would have just said his memoir is boring and a waste of money and money-seeking. I’m sure there are plenty of other TMI details of his life that are private and he did not share. Everything he shared that people called “TMI” is inconsequential to the audience and only there to entertain comedic relief amongst the other dark themes in this book. This probably went through hella reviews and many consultations to make sure it wasn’t too out there. I could ramble forever about this book…I wanna join like a book club or reddit to discuss it. This is truly one of my favorite reads in like the last ten years. I may have separate opinions about the Harry v. the Monarchy discourse but I just want to endorse the book is SUCH a good read anyways for those on edge. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2023 by Kailyn
    • An Honest Look At The Life of a Prince
Spare was a revelation to me. All of the little snippets taken out of the book and posted, mostly out of context, by the media, looked very different inside the actual book, which was extremely well written by the ghostwriter, J.R. Moehringer. I listened to the audiobook, which was read by Prince Harry, who did a wonderful job. It absolutely lays open Prince Harry’s life, good and bad, for all to see. The main message of this book is how the paparazzi have irrevocably changed, invaded, and tried to ruin a young man’s life, all to make money for themselves. And they do it unflinchingly over and over. When the book came out, the snippets posted and spun by the media led to a lot of people saying they would never read the book. That was what the media wanted, for this book is a complete condemnation of them, and it reveals their nature and true practices. It was also really brought home to me how the royal family is a corporation first, and family comes a distant second. I learned how the royals are treated by the paparazzi, and how the courtiers work with the media and the “paps,” as Prince Harry calls them, to create stories out of thin air. I learned that different offices within the palace would sacrifice other family members to make their chosen royal look better, especially Charles and Camilla’s office. Diana used to say that Charles was outraged by her popularity and Harry says it again here. Charles and Camilla cannot bear for anyone to be more popular than they are, and their courtiers will make sure of it. Hearing this, It is easy for me to believe that Camilla is still behind the scenes pulling strings, because that’s what she did to Diana all those years ago. Diana famously said there were three people in her marriage, which Camilla had invaded and controlled before it even began. The most heartbreaking scene in this book is when Harry asked for the police investigation photos of his mother’s death and was going through them. Here are his words below. “At last I came to the photos of Mummy. There were lights around her, auras, almost halos. How strange. The color of the lights was the same color as her hair—golden. I didn’t know what the lights were, I couldn’t imagine, although I came up with all sorts of supernatural explanations. As I realized their true origin, my stomach clenched. Flashes. They were flashes. And within some of the flashes were ghostly visages, and half visages, paps and reflected paps and refracted paps on all the smooth metal surfaces and glass windscreens. Those men who’d chased her… they’d never stopped shooting her while she lay between the seats, unconscious, or semi-conscious, and in their frenzy they’d sometimes photographed each other. Not one of them was checking on her, offering her help, not even comforting her. They were just shooting, shooting, shooting.” Harry shares his disgust that the accident was blamed solely on the driver, who had been drinking, and not at all on the paparazzi chasing Diana. I really appreciated the honesty in this book. Harry doesn’t flinch from revealing that he has used drugs and talks about all of the famous, negative stories about him. He refutes a lot of the stories, positive, and negative, that the media has simply made up out of thin air. He admits to the ones that are true. He apologizes for the things he did wrong. He talks a lot about his military service and how proud he is of his country. He praises the people he served with. The media simply says of all of his military service that he spoke about killing 25 Taliban. While he does do this, it is in a professional way over many chapters. The media crows that his words enraged the Taliban. It was really the media that did this with their reaction to this book, aimed at keeping people from reading it. Another thing that is made evident is the control that the family has over all of its members. Charles controls the funds for both William and Harry, who had no money of his own except a sum left to him by his mother. Harry had to ask permission for even the smallest of things. He even had to ask the Queen permission to have a beard when he got married. The Queen granted his request, which became a problem between himself and William because William was made to shave his beard. Harry wasn’t allowed to choose any career he wanted. Some choices were vetoed by his father. The freedom he felt when he finally broke away must have been amazing. The differences between Archie’s birth and Lilibet’s birth show how much freedom he has now. Archie’s birth was fraught with protocol and restrictions with courtiers sticking their noses in of course. Lilibet’s birth in the U.S. was simple and unencumbered by rules and courtiers, and everything was done according to the wishes of the parents, Harry and Meghan. The picture that the media painted of two close brothers who were torn apart by Meghan Markle is another lie. William almost always kept a distance between them and Harry always longed for them to be closer. Combine that with a distant, self-involved father and a mother who died too young, and that led to loneliness and mental health issues. Harry is candid about his mental health issues, how he sought out therapy, and how his memories of his mother were locked away for a long time. He talked about Meghan’s suicidal thoughts and how his family never stood up for them. This is an eye-opening look at what it’s really like to be a royal. I encourage everyone to read it and highly recommend the audiobook version. I read somewhere that the deal with Random House is for four books. If that is true, I hope one of them is devoted to looking into his mother's death. The opinions expressed are solely my own. I purchased this book on Audible. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2023 by BonnieD

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