After the documentary Harry and Meghan, the prince will publish memoirs under high tension. the title, spare, which means “replacement” already says a lot.
When her publisher, Penguin Random House, announced in July 2021 that it was going to publish her memoir, we were the first to appreciate the effort. Prince Harry was going to do something on his own, that is, break away from the royal family and get rid of his wife, Meghan. And then we discovered the title of the book. Spare. “Replacement” if translated literally into French. It refers to the sanctified royal phrase.heir and reserve” (heir and successor), to describe the gap that traditionally widens between the pretender to the throne and the spare, hence the spare wheel. The title is strong and weighty in meaning. In this first book, Harry announced that he would approach everything—his childhood and exile, Diana and Meghan, the army and philanthropy, the new king and the last queen—but through the lens of his second position.
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“You will be king, not me”
Number 2, he has been since his older brother realized he was going to be king. Perhaps ever since, at the age of 4, sitting in the backseat of a black sedan in the middle of a fight with William, Harry began: “One day you will be king, not me. So I can do whatever I want.” First he was right. While William was often sent to Windsor as a child to attend important (but admittedly boring) royal training with the Queen, Harry, two years his junior, was free of any commitments. It did not prevent the status to be weighed and the competitions to be settled. “Among two brothers,” explains psychologist Nicole Pryor, the task for the elder is to accept the place of the other. the smallest has dared to take it up and find some kind of legitimacy to exist.
In the Windsors, where the roles are even more rigid than in a “normal” family, Harry must have grown up in William’s shadow for the most part, because he will always lack legitimacy anyway. He grew up in the shadows so he wouldn’t be bothered. but sometimes also in the light, to preserve it. In his work Royal warHistorian Robert Lacey also claims that Harry, contrary to what the tabloids always claimed, was not the more promiscuous of the two brothers as a teenager (even if he was already a heavy drinker by age 15). According to the author, by the way, the main consultant of the series The crown, when the Firm needed to cover up the future monarch’s alcoholic excesses, it would put the “surrogate” in the spotlight to create a diversion. Harry has become “Buckingham’s bad boy” or “Dirty Harry”, as the English press has long called him.
In the video: the third trailer of the documentary Harry and Meghan
#FreeHarry
The label will stick for a long time. Right up until a certain Miss Markle arrived in 2016. The storm Meghan blew a new wind on the Buckingham Palace, but also on the fate of the prince. At the age of 33, she married a divorced American and destroyed the monarchical charter that had already been scratched by her brother, who also married a commoner. They become the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, but also the nightmare of the English family. “What Meghan wants, Meghan gets,” Harry told courtiers who secretly created, and as a joke (initially) the hashtag #FreeHarry (Free Harry)…
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Golden exile in Montecito
Because stuck between a family stuck in his record and a wife who feels unloved, criticized, persecuted, despised, Harry turns out to be anything but free. If you suddenly feel the need to assert yourself by fleeing England in 2020, the adventure will be called Megxit, and as the name suggests, Harry is only number 2 (and not just because the term “Harrxit” sounded worse ). Meghan is the one who opened his eyes to his situation in the Windsors and gave him the courage to leave, but she’s the one who drives and puts him in the passenger seat. From his golden exile in Montecito, an hour-and-a-half drive from Hollywood, Harry isn’t one to wave or raise his voice. Who remembers him during the couple’s explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021 (except when he ends up crouched in a chicken pen)?
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Family scheme
In this attitude of Harry with his wife, Nicole Prior sees the fruits of her family, what she knew; their wives shine.’ The first by obligation, the second by default, Diana so longed for the light. Megan has this in common with her mother-in-law. he knows how to talk to targets. In a portrait of the Sussexes released in early October, shot by their photographer friend Missan Harriman, she poses for the camera in a Ferrari red shirt and pants ensemble and a small smile. Harry is in the background, in profile. “Sure, Megan is clinging to him, but it could be a pedestal table, it would be the same thing,” body language expert Stephen Bunard then ventured.
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After fleeing Britain, many believed that Harry would finally reveal himself. But it has not yet sought to exist on its own. Does he really want it? A question may arise. In his six-episode mental health series, which will premiere on Apple TV+ in spring 2021, he stars with Oprah Winfrey. In the long-awaited and already controversial documentary about his new life in the US (available from December 8 on Netflix), he seems more talkative, but always either to justify his wife’s hagiography or to share his displeasure. his brother. Even in the trailer for the Invictus Games 2023, the multi-sport competition for the wounded and veterans that Harry initiated years ago, Meghan is there, under her husband’s admiring eye, during a mock ping-pong game. So maybe? Spare, which he signs alone, will finally reveal his truth. That she will discover Harry for who he really is because of this book. And that we will find him stationed somewhere in Africa (his dream) and divorced, 23 years old.e the season The crown.
“Spare”, by Prince Harry, Ed. Fayard: Released on January 10.
Source: Le Figaro
