It would be fair to say that the book launch did not go exactly as Harry and his publisher had meticulously planned. The first Spanish editions were available last week, and so there have been days of dizzying revelations in the tabloids that the Duke of Sussex hated so much.
Harry lost her virginity We are learning in a field. Harry shot 25 Taliban. Harry and his older brother heir, Prince William argued – and a lot. William also looks older and bald, and his wives fought over lip gloss, “baby brains” and bridesmaid dresses, writes Harry.
Sat, what’s up now, what’s next?
In the book and in interview feed Given to CBS’ “60 Minutes”, to ITV in London, and to ABC’s “Good Morning America”, it’s hard to know exactly what Harry and his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, wanted.
“I don’t think my father or my brother will read the book,” said Harry on ITV in the UK, after writing in the foreword that he wrote the book so they could understand him and why he and Meghan had to run away from his mother. country” for California “fears for our mental health and physical safety.”
Harry told an interviewer that he would be part of the family forever, pushing aside a question about relinquishing royal titles. He said he didn’t see a way to get in, but who knows? Members of the House of Windsor are very long-lived.
Early reviews describe the book as a call for help and change from Harry in transitioning to a family he says is “stuck” in his roles. Others are grudgingly indulgent – and her mission is the opposite of the late queen lauded for her service. honor and incomprehensible silence in all matters of family. Elizabeth did not give any interviews to the press during her 70-year reign.
Harry and Meghan said their origin story had not been told until now. But in the 2021 Oprah Winfrey interview, several sessions promoting the six-hour documentary memoir Harry and Meghan produced about themselves. Netflix titled “Harry & Meghan” they definitely took their side out.
In any case, the book will sell. It is already at the top of the bestseller lists. This is a shot. Michelle Obama is big. And there will likely be more books written by Harry and Meghan, who swap jobs from working as “senior royals” to former senior royals, keeping their titles when talking about family and not talking about them.
What about the reconciliation, peace, or reckoning that Harry talks about so much? Is this possible? It’s unlikely, say royal correspondents, whom Harry also hates and mocks.
Harry’s father, Charles, is preparing for his coronation in May. It is unknown at this time whether Harry and Meghan will be attending.
It is true that the couple succeeded in one of their goals by regaining some control of their own narrative. No member of the royal family has gone where Harry and Meghan have gone when it comes to detailing and naming family dysfunction.
Harry is now the new King III. He is a schemer playing the “long game”, according to Harry. A campaign aimed at marriage and ultimately the crown.”
While many were resentful towards the British princes and their American wives, many were also concerned with their story, particularly the accusations that the royal family and British tabloids were either racist or suffering from “unconscious prejudices”.
Minutes after midnight on Tuesday, 46-year-old Sarah Nakana, who lives and works in a property in south London, became one of the first people in the country to purchase the “Spare” book from a nearly empty bookstore. Victoria Station.
“I’m excited to hear about Prince Harry’s life from Prince Harry,” said Nakana, holding a hardcover copy of the 417-page book.
“I want to get ahead of the UK press… there will be a frenzy against Harry and Meghanness in the morning because hate sells… and it’s important to me to hear his story from his words,” she said. .
This first book buyer was surrounded, as if predestined, by a crowd of about 30 photographers and journalists. “It’s a bit silly,” Nakana said of the attack, “but I understand the interest in the book because he’s the first prince of our generation to have his life written down.”
Harry admits in interviews that he lost both his father and brother, but misses – even demands – their attention. He wants reconciliation and reckoning, but on his own terms.
Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace, in their own way, continued to refrain from commenting on them.
Queen “He’s an angry young man,” said Dickie Arbiter, Elizabeth’s former spokesperson. “He’s making these accusations and these allegations and not backing them up with any further information. He says that’s what they did and he knows very well that they won’t answer.”
“Imagine William responding publicly,” Arbiter said. “If William came out and denied that he pushed Harry at the Nottingham Cabin, then a question would come from a reporter. “Okay, so what happened?” I mean, that keeps the story going, right?
Arbiter would land, “He says, he says, he says, he says.”
In the book, Harry says that after Charles’ father Prince Philip’s funeral in 2021, he begged the two brothers to stop their endless quarrel: “Please guys. Don’t make my final years a misery.”
It is a sad line in a book full of sadness.
Valentine Low, author of Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor, said the damage may not be as bad as some feared, despite Harry’s “surprising” series of statements and claims.
Harry’s mother said that after Princess Diana’s death in a car crash in a Paris tunnel in 1997, “the royal family’s reputation was low”, but even then “somehow they got through everything”.
The monarchy “has an astonishing capacity to survive … I feel like the royal family has shown enough goodwill towards him and has managed to get through these crises,” he said.
Pauline Maclaran, a monarchy expert at the University of London’s Royal Holloway, said the silence at Buckingham Palace prompted people to “fill in the gaps” as to what Charles and William’s response might have been.
“Harry has said so much that people will probably think ah, poor Charles, it’s like a Shakespearean drama with a headstrong son.” Harry is so much so, at least on the British side, because he doesn’t admit any of his mistakes, really everyone else is guilty, even wearing the famous Nazi uniform is William and Kate’s fault.”
On the other hand, said Maclaran, royalty “is pretty boring by nature, but now all of a sudden, with emotional attachment, we would miss them if they were gone. ‘What did Harry do now?’ We bond with our neighbors.”
What seemed shocking when it first aired feels less and less a few days later, and many commenters said families are fighting.
Except when the birth conditions are extraordinary – and that’s how it works in hereditary monarchies. William heir. Harry is empty. And we spend more and more time with each child that William and Catherine, Princess of Wales, have ever had.
“William isn’t very nice, he seems like a curmudgeon. Was he a little too strict with his brother? Possibly, but we have Harry’s word for that,” Low said. “But on the other hand, they’re siblings and these are the kind of fights that siblings do. Harry also complains about everything and everybody and people are starting to take it lightly.”
A YouGov poll released Monday, the day before the book’s launch, revealed that only 26 percent of people had positive thoughts about Harry. William’s popularity ratings have also taken a hit, with a 69 percent drop from 77 percent last month, he said, and he has positive thoughts about him.
Some monarchy officials say Harry’s book will undermine the institution, weaken it at home and abroad, undermining the “soft power” exercised by the House of Windsor in both America and Commonwealth countries.
Anna Whitelock, professor of modern monarchy history at the City of London University, said Harry’s allegations were “disturbing to the royal family”.
But “beyond the feeling that bad PR and British royal family drama is anything like a box office thriller, the damage done by the institution of the monarchy on its own is harder to assess at this stage.”
“Harry certainly invites the monarchy to think and reflect, as she raises issues of the toxic relationship between the press and court, informing rival families, treating ‘reserves’, and the inherent misogyny and unconscious bias within the institution,” added Whitelock. reforms. But we’ll see if it happens and whether the public demands it or not.”
