Royal experts blast Harry’s ‘hateful’ attacks on his family in ‘one-sided’ memoir

The ‘hateful’ Prince Harry was shot today by ‘appalled’ royal pundits after leaked copies of his bombshell memoir revealed further shocking attacks by the Duke of Sussex on the royal family.

In his controversial book Spare, which was leaked ahead of publication next week and also went on sale early in Spain, Harry launched attacks in every chapter — from allegations that his brother consecutively attacked him over Meghan to allegations that William and their father confronted Charles him after Prince Philip’s funeral ‘looking for a fight’.

The prince, who retired as a working royal and moved to California with Meghan in a quest for more privacy, recalls dozens of family feuds and intimate conversations in excruciating detail.

He casts his brother as his “nemesis” and Charles as an emotionally stunted and ineffectual “old man”, wrote that he feared Queen Consort Camilla would become an “evil stepmother”, and revealed his father’s medical conditions and the fact that the king still carries his favorite teddy bear with him.

The late Queen’s former press secretary, Dickie Arbiter, called Harry’s autobiography “a bunch of balderdash” and “hateful.” He called the memoir ‘the gospel according to Saint Harry’ and told BBC Newsnight: ‘Honestly. much of it is questionable. We had Netflix for six hours. We had the interview with Oprah Winfrey, an hour into it. There were many falsehoods in it. Buckingham Palace even came out to say that ‘memories vary’. And I think this book, over 500 pages long, I think memories can vary in that as well.”

He added: ‘I think it’s a bunch of nonsense, to be honest. Royal households do not brief magazines. The journalists openly admit that their lives would be much easier if Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace informed them.’

“Briefing against individual members of the royal family is absolute nonsense and Harry, really, this whole exercise of his is revenge. It’s hateful.

And he knows full well that the rest of the family won’t come forward to comment on his story. That’s the last thing they should do. They should invite silence and not let the story run on its own.’

The BBC’s royal reporter Nicholas Witchell ripped the book apart and told the broadcaster that Harry’s memoir did not address sensational claims of racism in the royal family that were made in his and Meghan’s stellar Oprah Winfrey interview.

He said, “After all, there are no, if any, irremediable rules that we are aware of about racially inappropriate language or behavior. Think back to the Oprah Winfrey interview, that was the big issue that came up there. I am not aware that this has been implemented in this book.’

Expert Richard Fitzwilliams called the claims in Harry’s book “terrible” and “fantastic.”

And former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown, a biographer of Princess Diana, said, “Harry has turned into a human hand grenade. It rains on the House of Windsor just at the beginning of his father’s reign.

Royal expert Jack Royston said: ‘William will be furious and I can’t imagine William wanting Harry at the coronation after all that has been said.

“I think it is a decision that is made jointly after consultation. Charles is clearly the king and the Prince of Wales is not trumping the king.

‘But William is Charles’s son, Charles and Camilla are also both mentioned, I think this will be discussed by the three of them together and probably Kate as well.

‘William’s voice does count in that conversation, it doesn’t surpass the king, but his voice counts.

“It should be a long way because public opinion fluctuates so slowly and one thing we’ve seen is every time they go for the royals, every time they lash out at them, it hurts their reputation in Britain ‘.

In other amazing revelations, Harry:

• Proudly admits to lying about using cocaine as a teenager and tells how he smoked joints in a bathroom in Eton;
• Claims to have killed 25 Taliban insurgents while serving in Afghanistan;
• Discusses rumors that James Hewitt is his real father;
• Describes in dazzling detail how he lost his virginity to an older woman who loved “macho horses” and treated him “like a young stallion” in a field behind a pub;
• Accuses Kate of overreacting when Meghan said she had “baby brains because of her hormones” during an explosive argument between the two women.

Spare was set to be published Tuesday amid a massive secrecy operation by publisher Penguin Random House. But in a most embarrassing blunder, copies were put up for sale in bookstores across Spain yesterday, despite signs on the boxes saying “not open until January 10th.”

Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace declined to comment and were frantically digesting the contents of Harry’s 570-plus page diatribe last night.

While some expressed sympathy for the prince’s apparent continued emotional upheaval at the tragic loss of his adored mother, many will consider it a monstrous – and possibly unforgivable – betrayal by his family just four months after the queen’s death.

A source who knew Elizabeth well said last night they felt “almost comforted” that she wasn’t alive to see what her grandson had done.

“Her Majesty would have been devastated,” they said. Harry’s long-awaited memoir is even more explosive than Buckingham Palace insiders feared.

He admits to using cocaine regularly at the age of 17, but boasts that he got the palace to lie to a journalist about it.

The prince also claims he was innocent of racism charges when he was caught on video using the word ‘P***’ to describe a fellow Asian cadet from Sandhurst. calling an American a “Yankee.”

But it is his discussion of relationships with relatives that is most damaging. Covering every aspect of his life, the book charts the disconnection with his older sibling – whom he calls “Willy” – that began from the moment Charles was born, when Charles reportedly declared his duty done.

He accuses 40-year-old William of being engrossed in his position as future heir to the throne, claims he ignored him when they were pupils at Eton College, and says he repeatedly put him in his place.

In one paragraph, Harry, affectionately referred to as “Harold” by his family, describes feeling like he was born to be the “backup kidney” for his older brother.

Harry also accuses his older brother of being the aggressor during ‘Megxit’, claiming that their relationship had become so strained and damaged that William would only ‘look’ at him. He describes several particularly awkward encounters between himself, Meghan, William and Kate, saying that his brother and sister-in-law seemed uncomfortable being hugged by his wife-to-be.

He also appears to be accusing the Princess of Wales of overreacting by demanding an apology from Meghan after she argued with Kate over wedding plans.

Kate was apparently offended that Meghan attributed forgetfulness to “baby brain” after the birth of Prince Louis.

Harry also reveals that the two couples even rowed over the floor plans and whether William and Kate should be put together.

He says when William confronted Meghan and defended his wife, Meghan snapped at the prince, “get your finger out of my face.” While Charles is spared more pain than many expected, Harry portrays him as an ineffectual father who couldn’t even hug him when he told him about his mother’s death in a car accident.

He says that when he confided in Charles that he suffered panic attacks as a grown man, the prince looked sadly at his plate and said he had failed him.

In what will surely be disturbing passages for the King, Harry describes how when he returned to the UK to attend Prince Philip’s funeral in 2021, a clearly saddened Charles lamented to his warring sons for his “final years not to be a misery”. ‘ to make. .

Harry claims he and William had an explosive argument over Meghan, which led to his brother grabbing him by the collar, breaking his chain and knocking him to the ground, breaking and injuring himself on a dog bowl. Then he first called not his wife, but his therapist, he says.

And William, he claims, is his ‘nemesis’ and ‘opposite’.

As for the queen consort, who comes across as relatively light-hearted in the book, Harry says he and William begged their father not to marry the “other woman,” fearing she would be their “wicked stepmother,” but adds admitted that they eventually tolerated her. .

However, the fifth in line to the throne does accuse Camilla of leaking stories about him through a palace spin doctor.

The loss of his mother, Princess Diana, is also a central theme of the memoir, to which Harry returns repeatedly.

He dedicates the book to her, along with Meghan and their two children.

He repeatedly dreams that his mother might come back, and once turned to a woman with “powers” who relayed to him a message from Diana that he was “living the life she couldn’t.”

The Prince also writes in the book about drinking his first cocktail with the Queen Mother and teaching her to do an impression of the TV character Ali G.

In interviews set up to promote the memoir – from which other trailers have also been released – an emotional Harry refuses to say whether he will attend his father’s coronation this spring, but denies invading William and William’s privacy. Charles by revealing intimate details in his book.

Harry goads the royals, saying “the ball is in their court” to deal with the fallout if he has to attend the May 6 event.