Prince Harry

2022 - 10 - 28

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Prince Harry's Memoir, 'Spare,' Is Due in January. How Explosive ... (The New York Times)

It was part of a broader push by Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, to build their brands as media moguls: Beyond the book contract, with ...

The memoir will be published by Random House in the United States and Transworld, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, in the United Kingdom, according to the original announcement from Harry’s publisher. [one of the best-selling books of all time](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/books/michelle-obama-new-book.html), with more than 17 million copies sold worldwide. Penguin Random House has invested heavily in books by public figures and politicians, with widely varying results, underlining the risky nature of big bets in the publishing world. [the tabloids ](https://pagesix.com/2022/09/14/prince-harry-to-revise-pushed-back-memoir-out-of-respect-for-queen-elizabeth-sources-say/)and in the publishing world that Harry would tone down or shy away from some of the more damning material about his family out of respect for the queen, though as is often the case, much of the speculation was delivered through anonymous sources, and Harry and his publisher have not commented publicly. “If it had anything sensational it would be tasteless,” the royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams told The Daily Mail [last month](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11199423/Prince-Harry-think-publishing-memoir-Queens-death-loyalty-King-Charles.html). [ascended to the throne](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/02/07/93346684.html?pageNumber%3D1&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1662838405046716&usg=AOvVaw3XXCT6xKDnfY4nqkwDWqiU) on Feb. The memoir has been the subject of intense speculation in the publishing world and among royal watchers. But the couple have not disclosed, for example, who in the royal family The memoir, the first in a competitive multi-book deal with Penguin Random House, was initially scheduled for late 2022 and expected to be a blockbuster. The [coronation of the newly minted Queen Elizabeth II](https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000004345567/the-coronation-of-queen-elizabeth-ii.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-queen-elizabeth&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_levelup_swipe_recirc) took place on June 2 the following year. [Queen Elizabeth II last month](https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/queen-elizabeth), any attacks the memoir might make on members of the royal family, or the monarchy, could strike many readers as unseemly. It seemed like a sure thing, or as close to a sure thing as is possible in book publishing: Prince Harry, who was living in self-imposed exile after his stormy exit from the British royal family, was writing a tell-all.

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Prince Harry's memoir, Spare: The royal family is 'dreading' it (New Idea)

Such as, the death of Harry's mother, Princess Diana, or why Harry's relationship with his father, King Charles III and brother, William is so strained. The ...

He desperately wants to make changes. He wants sections changed now. Well, according to palace insiders, as soon as Queen Elizabeth II passed away, Harry requested a number of alterations be made to his memoir amid fears that the final draft "might not go down well" with his family.

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Prince Harry isn't emotionally prepared to be 'anything but a spare' (Sky News Australia)

“Thank God he's a spare way down the line down,” she told Sky News host Peter Gleeson. “I just think that it's going to be a terrible ruckus for the Royal ...

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