Spare by Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex Audiobook Review
I opted to listen to the audiobook narrated by Prince Harry, who delivered a fantastic performance. The book openly exposes both the favourable and negative aspects of Prince Harry’s life. Its primary focus is on how the paparazzi have substantially affected, intruded upon, and tried to ruin a boy’s life solely for their financial gain, doing so repeatedly without hesitation. Regardless of the media’s efforts to hinder readers by sharing manipulated snippets, the book’s sales soared to over 3 million copies worldwide in its first week, showing that their ploy was unsuccessful as the book functions as a strong critique of their dishonest practices and true nature.
It was likewise truly brought home to me how the royal household is a corporation first, and family comes a far-off second. I learned how the royals are treated by the paparazzi, and how the courtiers deal with the media and the “paps,” as Prince Harry calls them, to develop stories out of thin air. I discovered that various offices within the palace would compromise with other family members to make their chosen royal look much better, particularly Charles and Camilla’s office. Diana states that Charles was outraged by her popularity and Harry says it once again here. Charles and Camilla can not bear for anybody to be more popular than they are, and their courtiers will make sure of it. Hearing this, It is easy for me to think that Camilla is still behind the scenes pulling strings because that’s what she did to Diana all those years earlier. Diana notoriously stated there were 3 individuals in her marriage, which Camilla had invaded and controlled before it even began.
Harry shares his disgust that in the main investigation, the mishap was blamed solely on the departed chauffeur, who it was reported had been consuming, and not on the paparazzi chasing Diana.
I truly appreciated the honesty in this book. Harry doesn’t flinch from revealing that he has used drugs and discusses all of the well-known, unfavourable stories about him. He refutes a great deal of the stories, positive, and unfavorable, that the media has merely comprised out of thin air. He admits to the ones that hold. He excuses the important things he did wrong.
He talks a lot about his military service and how proud he is of his country. He applauds the people he served with. The media simply states of all of his military service that he discussed killing 25 Taliban. While he does discuss this, it remains in a professional method over many chapters. The media crows that his words infuriated the Taliban. It was the media that did this with their reaction to this book, aimed at keeping individuals from reading it in my opinion. They entirely minimized his military service to this headline, and it is an outrage. Readers will recognize it at the same time when they read the many chapters he commits to the armed forces.
Another thing that is made evident is the control that the household has more than all of its members. Charles manages the funds for both William and Harry, who has no cash of his own except a sum delegated to him by his mother. Harry had to ask approval for even the tiniest of things. He even needed to ask the Queen’s consent to have a beard when he got married. The Queen approved his request, which ended up being an issue between himself and William since William was made to shave his beard. Harry wasn’t enabled to pick any profession he desired. Some choices were vetoed by his daddy. The liberty he felt when he lastly broke away should have been incredible.
The picture that the media painted of two close bros who were torn apart by Meghan Markle is another lie. William usually kept a distance between them and Harry constantly wished for them to be closer. Combine that with an unsupportive daddy and a mom who died too young, which led to solitude and mental health problems. Harry is honest about his mental health issues, how he sought out therapy, and how his memories of his mother were locked away for a long period. He spoke about Meghan’s suicidal thoughts and how his family never stood up for them.
This is an eye-opening account of what it’s like to be a royal. I encourage everybody to read it and extremely recommend the audiobook version.
