"From the cover of Spare — perhaps the most hysterically anticipated memoir ever published — a confident and modern Prince Harry confronts his impatient readers. The furze of ginger beard is stylishly trimmed, a necklace (but presumably not that necklace) is subtly visible, he is bathed in a soft, therapeutic golden light. He looks like he should be running a tech startup or an expensive yoga retreat. This, you sense, is Harry as he believes himself to be: grown-up, truth-telling, faintly messianic.⁠ ⁠ Open the book and you discover quite a different Harry from the cool, square-jawed metrosexual Californian on the cover. This is a weirder, more complex Harry. So who is he? Well, a big part of him is still clearly the standard-issue braying Sloane, familiar from countless scandalised tabloid headlines. The Harry who drinks, smokes weed, wears inappropriate fancy dress, watches cartoons, virtually never reads a book and dreams of becoming a ski instructor after he leaves school.⁠ ⁠ The other part is sensitive if dim (his father, Charles, once described him as not being “the family scholar”), nature-mystic Harry who believes a medium might help him contact Princess Diana and that singing to seals might predict whether his wife is pregnant. All this stuff he clearly gets from his father, a devotee of mysticism, numerology and esoteric theories of universal harmony.⁠ ⁠ This Harry is the author of many boring passages about the sublime beauty of the elephants of the Okavango Delta, which I suspect most of his readers will skip. But the most important part of Harry is the tortured little kid who lost the mother he worshipped and whose life is defined and tormented by her absence."⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Click the link in our bio to read the full review of Spare by Prince Harry⁠ ⁠ #princeharry #spare #royalfamily #meghanmarkle #princewilliam