Prince Harry multiplies the revelations as painful as they are unexpected in his memoirs published this week. An anecdote concerning the marriage of his brother William with Kate Middleton is particularly surprising… Story.
Gone are the days when princes Harry and William appeared next to each other, accomplices. In his work Spare – The Alternate in French – published on January 10, the youngest son of Charles III and Diana evokes among other things their relationship which deteriorated over time. Certain passages of his memoirs are harsh on him, as they can be on other members of the royal family of England, including Queen Consort Camilla Parker Bowles. The book, which had already caused a lot of ink to flow even before its publication, has therefore not finished making him talk .. especially since Prince Harry also makes more personal revelations in it.
If he speaks about the few painful parts of his life, the Duke of Sussex also shares amazing anecdotes. Including during his brother’s marriage to Kate Middleton. It was April 29, 2011, at Westminster Abbey. During the celebrations, the one who would have been only William’s dummy witness wanted to play the humor card by unpacking a curious object: a string “soft and furry”. This is what he explains in The Alternatespecifying that he had called on an ermine hunter to make it: “A few bits of silk string attached to an ermine pouch no larger than the one sewn inside my tunic”. Enough to amuse the audience? It seems so, since a “gratifying laughter walked around the room. Which is reminiscent of the humiliating Christmas present given to Harry three years later…
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Sales records for Harry’s memoir
Also strongly criticized for his memoirs, Prince Harry seduces despite everything. Witness the impressive sales figuresTo not say records. At least that’s what its publisher Transworld Penguin Random House says, saying that only the adventures of another Harry – Harry Potter – had gotten better first-day starts in Britain. For the English television channel Sky News, he actually revealed that 400,000 copies were torn out in a single daythe best start for a non-fiction book overseas.
Since then, other figures have panicked the counters. We’re talking about1.4 million first day sales worldwidefor all formats of the English edition (Canada, United States…), according to The Hollywood Reporter who recalls that it took Michel Obama a week to achieve such a score with his book Become (2018).