To be annoyed at Prince Harry's memoir title SPARE

[benisright]

I have zero interest in this couple who seem to enjoy making a living on moaning about how they are poorly treated in Britain. Just saw the headline news and the cover of Harry's memoir with his face and one single word SPARE.

Get a life for goodness sake. I'm about his age and never once thought of him as a spare. He kinda invented his own tale.

How do you mean?

Please tag me when you find out

😂Oh I am so enlightened now.

@BigMugsSmallPlates

Well, I've no idea if it's significant or not but usually they release a new photo on her birthday, don't they? I imagine any news paper reporting on her new photo will also mention the book being released the next day.

Would he rather be king I wonder? Because personally I can't think of anything worse, working full time until you die, no privacy, you can't ever misbehave, you have to go out and put a certain face on every single day of your life. It would kill me.
He's the lucky one, he escaped it all. I'd be thanking my lucky stars.

You don’t understand that people react differently to things? Of course you know they do but that doesn’t fit your narrative.

OP, you clearly don't have zero interest in this given that you've started a thread about it 😄.

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Having the same parents and living in the same house hold doesn't guarantee the same upbringing . . . your 1st, 2nd, 3rd born etc do not have the same experience and are not brought up by the "same" parents. You usually treat them differently, they don't have the experience of being a 2nd born child unless they are the 2nd born if that makes sense. That's why Beth can turn out to be a GP and Jack a homeless drug user (no offence intended) despite coming from the same household with the same parents.

Perhaps we should bring in China's former one-child policy. Or would that create a only child syndrome academic. FFS, it's called life.

epidemic

Do they? I remember the one for her 40th but didn’t know they did it every birthday. I knew they did it for the children’s birthday. I think the press will be talking about it anyway, the daily mail will live on it for months. 😅

I thought this was a well-known phrase. Rich families have an heir and a spare in case something happens to be heir.

Yabu to be annoyed about it!!
As pp have said it makes perfect sense and I think it must have psychological consequences to make the older sibling the feted golden child and treat the second child as Inferior.
But hey that's royalty! nothing democratic about it! But you would be have be completely lacking in empathy to not see how damaging this could be.

Your usual unbiased view @antelopevalley

Their very first thread too! 🤖

@BigMugsSmallPlates

Maybe I'm just remembering the 40th birthday one and didn't realise it was one-off. I don't really know. I just know her birthday is near mine and so is the release date and thought it was interesting.

Where are all the people who said we should abolish the royal family when the Queen dies? I think we should seriously consider getting rid of this ridiculous nonsense.

Pray, why do you say that O Brand New Poster?
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Loving the emerging narrative in this thread about ‘poor little Harry’. I’ve been reading about the royal family for years - the ‘heir and a spare’ thing has always been knocking around, but this thread is the very first time I have read anywhere that the word ‘spare’ was used instead of Harry’s name. Should the book really be named ‘A Boy Called Spare’? Are we going to read about how William wafted about in silk pyjamas, eating caviar porridge and drinking champagne from the age of three, whilst ‘poor little Harry’ wore rags, lived under the servants’ stairs and was given the crusts off the toast by kindly corgis who felt for his plight?

He’s a right dreary little Cinderella, isn’t he?

The big problem with this is that despite the varying systems of governance that other countries have, the issues that affect their citizens seem to be remarkably similar - bad leadership decisions, paying bills, accessing medical care, feeding the family, pensions, etc.. So, if we move to another system, we may still have to deal with the same problem as we thought we had left behind.

I wish the pair of them would just fade in to obscurity. I thought they left to get away from the fish bowl of service life. All I read about is those two whiny, miserable, woke bores.

I think it is a fab title. Always hear phrase "heir and a spare '
Actually I want to read it now.

Another self pitying outburst from the boy with the silver platter (not just a spoon) in his gob. He and the wife make millions from the poor us interviews, podcasts, books and other outpourings.

We have a saying in Scots. ‘Spare Prick’. Quite fitting really…