But I believe that readers should look past Harry’s heated prose to the bigger, and I believe valid, claims he makes. The book is spotted with a number of unnecessary slights, with Prince William bearing the brunt of them. I’m inclined to agree with Morton – to a point. Morton doesn’t think so, citing Spare’s propensity for “petty point scoring,” which risks overshadowing “the genuinely sad story of a son unable to come to terms with the premature death of his mother.” Were the Prince’s revelations about the Royal Family as revolutionary as his mother’s? Does this new book have the potential to challenge (or dare I say, change) people’s perceptions of the monarchy as the Diana book did in its own time? The book also set the tone of royals coverage and debate for a generation. Morton’s book about Diana altered the way people saw the monarchy and the “fairytale” marriage between her and Charles. No doubt the late Diana, Princess of Wales, would have understood Prince Harry’s desire to tell his story after breaking out of the royal fold, much like she herself did upon her separation from then-Prince Charles when she collaborated with Andrew Morton for his 1992 book Diana: Her True Story, In Her Own Words.īefore I sat down to review Spare, I reached out to Morton to see what he thought of Harry’s memoir. The Duke of Sussex has often remarked in television interviews that he is very much his mother’s son.
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