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Can someone please explain chapter 34 of spare to me please? Harry did drugs but then gets annoyed they publish it?!

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ttcstop · 11/01/2023 17:16

Am I right here? He was smoking pot - and got annoyed the press published a story to say he was doing drugs?!!

It sounds as though the article was greatly exaggerated but he had still been doing drugs am I correct here?

I also don't understand how charles and Camilla through him under a bus? Is this purely because they didn't stop the story?

Please someone explain! Genuinely have I missed something here?

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ttcstop · 11/01/2023 18:07

Anyone?

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F4chrissakes · 11/01/2023 18:36

Harry wants to protect his privacy. Which translates as he only wants you to know what he wants you to know. Thus his drug taking and other poor behaviour is off limits, but intimate details regarding his penis isn't. Nor are details the other royals might not want shared, but Harry and Meghan are the only ones who can decide what is in the public domain.

F4chrissakes · 11/01/2023 18:38

Actually, he's changed his mind, and his book apparently details lots of examples of his drug taking. But he's the one telling us, so that's ok. And the royals aren't racists today, but they were when H&M did the Oprah interview.

Mammajay · 11/01/2023 18:42

Some therapies seem to encourage the person getting therapy to have one world view..their own. Harry seems to think the only truth is his. We all construct truth in our own way.

Choccolatte · 11/01/2023 18:43

It's his information to give out, not the press who are a bunch of vultures.

ttcstop · 11/01/2023 19:06

I was genuinely looking for someone to explain the chapter to me! As in, am I right in this chapter or did I kiss a key bit of information? Genuinely.

If I didn't Miss anything then what on earth is he talking about??

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ttcstop · 11/01/2023 19:07

F4chrissakes · 11/01/2023 18:38

Actually, he's changed his mind, and his book apparently details lots of examples of his drug taking. But he's the one telling us, so that's ok. And the royals aren't racists today, but they were when H&M did the Oprah interview.

😂

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F4chrissakes · 11/01/2023 20:08

Also M and H received an award from the Kennedy Foundation for tackling racism within the royal family. So they were racist. But Harry told Tom wotsisname the other night that they aren't racist. So the royal family is and it isn't racist. Because Harry says so.

MechanicaHound · 11/01/2023 20:15

I've just read this section of the book. He has just been telling us about how he was doing drugs regularly at Eton, couldn't even stop the habit during the exam period.

Then an aide comes and asks him is it true you're doing drugs. He lies and says no.

And is outraged when the press publishes a story saying he does drugs? Outraged at Charles for not 'doing something', when it was the truth?

I don't get it either... Maybe I'm missing something too.

Morestrangethings · 11/01/2023 20:18

Choccolatte · 11/01/2023 18:43

It's his information to give out, not the press who are a bunch of vultures.

Yes, your explanation is the right one, in my opinion.

MechanicaHound · 11/01/2023 20:19

And why was he doing 'princely charitable work' (visiting a rehab centre apparently) as a schoolboy?
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ttcstop · 11/01/2023 21:43

Yes I understand it's his information but it's jo different to any celebrity or high profile person? It's life - and ultimately without press there people are nothing we wouldn't know they exist so he's being ridiculous?

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ttcstop · 11/01/2023 21:44

@MechanicaHound exactly, I think it's just proves the point he is a serial liar and switches the narrative whenever it suits

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Boulshired · 11/01/2023 21:56

I interpreted as its more that the royal family to an extent can control or suppress bad news by offering alternative, there is obviously some truth in this but I don’t know how much power. For Harry he believes that they didn’t do all they could to keep it out of the papers. It’s hypocritical though as if truth is important and to be freely told then that applies to the media as well. I would argue now that Harry is the media now.

PennysMadJourney · 11/01/2023 22:21

Choccolatte · 11/01/2023 18:43

It's his information to give out, not the press who are a bunch of vultures.

Equally, it's up to Charlotte to share that she hated the flower girl dress and being forced to wear it for the Sussex wedding made her upset so she cried. Or all those private details about his brother and dad. These are not his stories to tell. Hypocrite. He is now the vulture and getting paid handsomely.

Revenge and $$$. Messed up.

Blossomtoes · 12/01/2023 00:10

MechanicaHound · 11/01/2023 20:19

And why was he doing 'princely charitable work' (visiting a rehab centre apparently) as a schoolboy?
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Because Diana appeared to him and told him that her work wasn’t finished and he must do it for her.

LadyVictoriaSponge · 12/01/2023 00:22

Harry and Meghan accept the ripple of hope award for “fighting structural racism within the royal family” and then he says they never said the royal family was racist……his utter hypocrisy knows no bounds, Kerry Kennedy must feel a right twit.

JustWhattheDoctorOrdered · 12/01/2023 00:33

I have read the whole book.

H is very open about his drug use all of the way through. He does not hide it.

He objected to the papers printing it in relation to his use at Highgrove. He says that they drank heavily there but did not use drugs. The main reason he is angry is that someone leaked this untrue story to the press (it can only have been Camilla) to make him a scapegoat and to make others in the royal family look better (KC and Camilla) as the story was followed up with lots of other stories eg. Poor Charles the single parent, Charles takes H to rehab etc.

smileladiesplease · 12/01/2023 00:35

He's a twat! End of

Blossomtoes · 12/01/2023 00:38

someone leaked this untrue story to the press (it can only have been Camilla)

How’s he worked that one out? Highgrove must be stuffed with staff, it was probably one of them that he’d upset.

RedToothBrush · 12/01/2023 00:38

Blossomtoes · 12/01/2023 00:10

Because Diana appeared to him and told him that her work wasn’t finished and he must do it for her.

Diana was reincarnated as the bin?!

JaneJeffer · 12/01/2023 00:38

F4chrissakes · 11/01/2023 20:08

Also M and H received an award from the Kennedy Foundation for tackling racism within the royal family. So they were racist. But Harry told Tom wotsisname the other night that they aren't racist. So the royal family is and it isn't racist. Because Harry says so.

Schrödinger's racists

Eyerollcentral · 12/01/2023 00:41

JaneJeffer · 12/01/2023 00:38

Schrödinger's racists

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

JustWhattheDoctorOrdered · 12/01/2023 00:47

@Blossomtoes
Read the whole book

Blossomtoes · 12/01/2023 00:51

JustWhattheDoctorOrdered · 12/01/2023 00:47

@Blossomtoes
Read the whole book

I have.