To be annoyed at Prince Harry's memoir title SPARE

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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.

The title in his mind obviously sums up how he feels he was viewed in the family, probably by his father who reading between the lines he appears to resent & blame for many of his problems . Harry carries lots of anger & trauma from Diana's death & the immediate aftermath & events in the years following.

Something seems to have gone wrong around the time he met Meghan, perhaps in telling her his life story it triggered memories or anger who knows.

We see him as a man nearing 40, but emotionally he's stuck as the 12 year old bereaved child, mourning in the midst of the world's media. Until he addresses this , lets go of the hurt & anger & can find peace & acceptance of that tragedy & his loss he will never be fully happy.
Harry & his family need individual counselling & family therapy to talk through their issues.

It's a great title. I wonder who came up with it. Everyone has heard of "the heir and the spare" surely? He has a point. Even though I don't think I agree with ALL of his points but what do I know?

If the book is anything like that opera interview I won’t be reading it . I’m interested in his story but I like reading autobiography’s.
do I sympathise with him yes , do I feel sorry for him no.
he has this huge platform to do so much and instead he chooses this woe is me and the Mrs .
I hope he gets what he wants from this book but apart from money what will it get ? Will he regret yeah I reckon so .

It’s hardly baseless speculation, he’s the spitting image of another bloke who Diana was in a relationship with. Yeah they say Harry had already been born by that time or whatever but they would say that wouldn’t they. Harry has even questioned it himself apparently. He must wonder!

I volunteer in our local library . As if this morning , only one person has reserved Spare whereas Revenge and Courtiers had lots .

Great, it'll be available if someone wants it.

For someone who wants out the royal family and to live a more private life he is going about it all the wrong way. Interviews with Oprah and now a book. The title is crap. Does that mean all second/third or fourth children are spares. I can’t imagine anyone in the family calling him that, it’s all came from the medias “heir and a spare” . I find it so self pitying and playing a victim. if anything his book will make him more estranged from his family.

will I be reading it? No .

I suspect DNA evidence would sort that doubt out for him, and I'm sure James Hewitt wouldn't mind providing it. Hewitt is confident he can't be Harry's father since he hadn't actually met DiPoW by Christmas 1983/New Year 1984 when Harry was presumably conceived, so some blood or spittle to prove the point would do him no harm.

Actually I am rather surprised nobody has quietly done that already. I think they probably have, and found the rumour wasn't true: if it had been, it would have been so easy to tell Diana "we have this evidence, and if you don't stop being such a nuisance to the family we'll let the press have it" and give her a nice estateto live in, well out of the public eye and with plenty of security.

There are several pairs of photographs in which Prince Harry's resemblance to Prince Philip is very clear. Photographs of James Hewitt and Prince Harry tend to show that apart from both having (different sorts of) red hair they are not really much alike.

I’m actually amazed that people still believe James Hewitt is PH’s dad. Literally the only way they look alike is ginger hair. Which half of Diana’s family have. PH also has the same eyes and nose as King Charles and looks just like Prince Philip when he was younger. I can only assume people who believe he was the product of an affair that happened AFTER his birth are exceptionally, exceptionally dim.

he’s the spitting image of another bloke who Diana was in a relationship with.

They look absolutely nothing alike.

When you compare to Prince Philip it really does put paid to the nonsense and inflammatory rumours about Hewitt

Well given there is 19 pages of people saying they dont care etc ,and endlesss threads slating both H&M for bits of made up nonsense ,i imagine loads of people will buy and read the book ,just so they can be outraged ...

Agreed.
It wouldn't surprise me if Harry addressed the rumours in the book.

He looks nothing like james Hewitt apart from the ginger hair ,which was predominant in the Spencer family ,he does look very much like prince phillip ,and his Dad ,king charles

The picture for the front cover of his book emphasises his very close set eyes which he shares with King Charles and Prince Philip.

The whole spare thing seems so damaging, eg Princess Margaret, Andy and even Edward to some degree.

But being King is just so much more important than your own family. Maybe Charles didn’t consider but you’d think William would have concern for Charlotte and Louis.

I don't give a shit about your views on two complete strangers, but your tiny-minded "Harry's wife" - refusing to refer to Meghan with her own name - is misogynistic and truly, embarrassingly pathetic.

Can you stop trying to derail a H&M thread with balanced, reasoned debate?

Honestly.

Yep totally ,in fact every singke news article ,thread on here ,etc etc keeps them in them in the public eye ,if people want them to go away quietly they need to stop giving them publicity.

if people want them to go away quietly they need to stop giving them publicity.

And there's the glorious irony. These people can't help themselves. They're actively seeking information to rile themselves up.

It’s unintentionally quite funny though. Round my way “Spare” is a term often used to mean absolutely furious - he was going spare.

It’s ridiculously overdramatic. But it’s hardly a shock- he’s the evidence of the ‘top much therapy’ phenomenon.

most second borns are born to keep the elder ones company, and to be a sibling. That’s just life.

Our second child was born because the first was such a complete delight that we decided we'd like to do it again.

Most second borns are not born in to the royal family though are they where their position is is displaced regularly and they are made aware continually that it is their elder sibling who is the important one..

Same.

Boy did we get a shock when DS came along and utterly disproves that any child we produce is a delight 🤣