Prince Harry’s ghostwriter says royal wanted ‘Spare’ to be a ‘rebuttal to every lie’ published about him
09.05.2023 - 16:53
/ foxnews.com
Prince Harry's ghostwriter, J. R. Moehringer is detailing the collaborative process in writing the royal's memoir, "Spare," admitting that Harry's intention was in sharing his truth, but also in debunking lies spread about him.
"Little by little, Harry and I amassed hundreds of thousands of words. When we weren’t Zooming or phoning, we were texting around the clock. In due time, no subject was off the table," Moehringer wrote in The New Yorker.
"I felt honored by his candor, and I could tell that he felt astonished by it. And energized. While I always emphasized storytelling and scenes, Harry couldn’t escape the wish that ‘Spare’ might be a rebuttal to every lie ever published about him." "As Borges dreamed of endless libraries, Harry dreams of endless retractions, which meant no end of revelations.
He knew, of course, that some people would be aghast at first. ‘Why on earth would Harry talk about that?’ But he had faith that they would soon see: because someone else already talked about it, and got it wrong," he adds of the Duke of Sussex's optimism. During a contentious moment in the writing process, Moehringer explained Harry's desire to be understood.
In one passage, Prince Harry writes of the painful simulation he underwent while in the military: being captured and consequently tortured by terrorists. "He’s hooded, dragged to an underground bunker, beaten, frozen, starved, stripped, forced into excruciating stress positions by captors wearing black balaclavas.The idea is to find out if Harry has the toughness to survive an actual capture on the battlefield. (Two of his fellow-soldiers don’t; they crack.)," he explained. "At last, Harry’s captors throw him against a wall, choke him, and scream insults into his face,
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