SPARE - Harry’s book release announced

[Rinoachicken]

So he’s called it ‘Spare’ and it’s being released on 23rd Jan.

@LondonWolf I would love for you to quote my post where I have said you said that???

What would you describe as a ‘normal’ life? Is there a list? Because most people I know have all had different lives in one way or another.

Like Princess Anne? I think she’s the best Royal!!!

@ShippingNews and he’s described his father and brother as ‘trapped’.

I was always under the impression that the “spare” was an enviable position. All of the privilege none of the responsibility.

@PoseyFlump

You said:-

At what point should he have left? Straight after his mother's funeral? Abused woman don't leave immediately. There's lots of brainwashing and control. It's so easy to say because he's wealthy that we shouldn't see it the same way. He was fucked up by his family. End of.

I never said he should leave at all.

Then you said, while equating a spoiled, hugely privileged grown man with abused, battered women:-

I'm equating an abused, traumatised child as a victim. Saying a small child should have left the RF is ridiculous.

When I said absolutely no such thing at all.

Then you said:-

do you not think being raised in the RF would be like living inside a cult? You make it sound so easy with your 'he should have done this' blah. How exactly do you escape the golden cage of the RF? When everything has always been done for you and you can't even walk down the street alone.

When I never suggested he should leave and that it would be easy for him to do so.

I won't bother with the rest but you have misrepresented my posts throughout this thread, then asking silly questions based on your misrepresentations. All my posts stand if anyone wants to trawl back through.

Now, there is NOTHING more boring than side arguments on interesting threads, which derail the thread. I'm impatient when others do it so I will not be continuing with this interaction with you. You may feel sorry for fabulously wealthy and cosseted royal family members and wish to equate normal parental/family fucks up to cruel and continuous cult like abuse, but anyone with an iota of life experience can see this nonsense for exactly what it is - an angry, spoilt man who wouldn't have said a word about any of it as long as Daddy kept picking up the tab. This is all about having to pay his own bills - huge security costs mainly, and his struggling to adapt to his loss of status on leaving. He's flailing in a new world, which he's only been in for a couple of years - so no time to adjust at all realistically. I suggest in ten years time, he will look back and cringe at all this, as he should.

Have a good evening

Thanks for pointing out @LondonWolf that I never actually said you'd said what you'd previously accused me of 😂😂

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What's the opposite to remaining close to someone? 🤔

@Ladytreacle surely you are just an adult.

Dictionary definition of young adult appears to be late teens and 20s

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/young-adult

What would you describe as a ‘normal’ life? Is there a list? Because most people I know have all had different lives in one way or another.

How many people do you know have been famous from birth and world draw attention wherever they went?

I looked this up earlier on. Wikipedia tells us that young adults are such until into their thirties and then it's "middle adulthood" which is middle age. I suspect that is where @Ladytreacle got their definitions from.

@CrackpotOldFool i wouldn’t necessarily believe everything Harry says or writes.

It's a striking title, which will attract attention. And coming out in January may miss the Christmas market but it will avoid it getting swamped in all the Christmas things.

I do think the title makes it sound as though he resents/is jealous of his brother.

I do think the title makes it sound as though he resents/is jealous of his brother.

I don't agree. It's the establishment not his brother who are responsible. He's already said his brother is trapped in the same system. Like it or not it is like being born into a cult.

For goodness sake there are worse things to be born into like a family who have got nothing. So the fella is discontent when he is in the family so he moves out - fine - but then spends all his time saying how bad life is to him from his millionaire’s mansion. He needs to get a job flipping burgers and find out how people live who are really badly off.

He is just out of touch and completely tone deaf. He has married a saccharine, money worshipping fantasist which has caused a further detachment from reality. He probably is jealous of William but at the same time, he is painfully aware that he would not have done that job either. He is not a grafter.

Spare?! Spare us all from the inevitable whinge fest. He really needs to give his head a wobble and be grateful for his privileged existence.

PRE-ORDER details: To pre-order your copy of Spare

Why can't they just go away and enjoy their freedom / space / privacy / whatever?

So true

I might order two - then I'll have a spare copy!

*creeps silently away from the howls and rotten tomatoes 🍅

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'With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.'

Boak. Did MM write the preface?

For goodness sake there are worse things to be born into like a family who have got nothing.

Been there, done that. Throw in trauma too and I should also be shouting for his blood. But I have empathy for him. Because I understand what it's like to be trapped in a situation you never asked for. I think he's mentally ill and all his actions now show how he's still not dealt with his trauma. Just because he has wealth doesn't mean we can't recognise that.