If the royal family thought the final version of Prince Harry’s memoir Spare was bad, we guess it’s a good thing they (or anyone else for that matter) never saw the original transcript!
12.01.2023 - 23:51 / perezhilton.com
Prince Harry’s ghostwriter is fighting back against critics!
The Duke of Sussex’s memoir Spare dropped earlier this week, bringing with it a bevy of bombshells, including details about his rocky relationship with Prince William and King Charles III, the death of Princess Diana, and more. But as readers dove into the book this week, many have spotted several factual errors within the pages — and weren’t afraid to call out Harry for it!
Buzzfeed reporter Ellie Hall wrote on Twitter that she “stumbled across another little inaccuracy” in Spare on Wednesday. She shared an excerpt in which the Archewell founder suggests that Dickie Arbiter, “the Queen’s ex-press secretary,” said Harry and Meghan Markle should “expect no mercy” after stepping away from their royal duties in 2020. However, he seems to have misattributed the threatening quote. While Arbiter did speak with The Sun about the exit, it was actually Trevor Phillips who said to The Times that “Harry and Meghan will join the rest of us in the trenches” and “expect no mercy.”
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That wasn’t the only error! Elsewhere in the memoir, Harry recalls being at the boarding school Eton when he found out that the Queen Mother — Queen Elizabeth II’s mom — passed away in 2002, writing:
But it turns out that recollection was inaccurate! Several reports and pictures came out showing Harry, William, and Charles were in Klosters, Switzerland, on a ski trip when his great-grandmother died.
Other mistakes? The prince wrote about receiving an Xbox from Diana, but the game console wasn’t released when she died in 1997. Harry was also called out by TK Maxx – the UK’s version of TJ Maxx — for claiming he
If the royal family thought the final version of Prince Harry’s memoir Spare was bad, we guess it’s a good thing they (or anyone else for that matter) never saw the original transcript!
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