Royal Experts Debate Whether Prince Harry Can Make Amends With Royal Family After ‘Spare’

06.01.2023 - 03:37 / usmagazine.com

Prince Harry did not hold back in his memoir, Spare. After detailing fights with brother Prince William and father King Charles III, will Harry be able to mend fences with the royal family?

“I think that they have two different agendas, and that’s why sometimes the royal family probably is willing to ride out a storm if it’s not too irrevocably damaging or permanently damaging because they know that in the longer war, even if they lost the odd battle, they’re going to come out on top,” author Jonathan Sacerdoti exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, January 5, speculating why the royal family is likely to stay quiet about Harry’s book claims. “And I suspect that will be their guiding principle when they’re deciding how to react. But of course, they will have to react here and there, even if not directly to some of the things that are being said.”

The Duke of Sussex, 38, penned his debut memoir — which is set for a Tuesday, January 10, release — all about his upbringing as a member of the royal family and his eventual relationship with wife Meghan Markle. Several passages, per an early copy obtained by Us, even provided specific examples of Harry’s feuds with the Prince of Wales, 40, and His Majesty, 74. In one chapter, Harry alleged that his older brother initiated a physical fight after he supposedly called the Suits alum, 41, “difficult” and “rude.”

“He set down the water, called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast. He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor,” the Archewell cofounder wrote about William, whom he even referred to as his “archnemesis” in another chapter. “I landed on the dogs’ bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting