6th January, 2023
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex has made some shocking revelations in his much-awaited memoir due to be released next week.
Among such revelations was an unforgettable physical attack visited on him by his brother, William, the Prince of Wales over an argument at his London home in 2019.
Harry says William called his wife, Meghan “difficult”, “rude” and “abrasive”, which Harry calls a “parrot[ing of] the press narrative” about his American wife.
The Guardian of London quotes Prince Harry as narrating in the book, “The confrontation escalated, Harry writes, until William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor”.
Harry reveals that the attack resulted in visible injury to his back.
According to the Guadian, the book’s title comes from an old saying in royal and aristocratic circles: that a first son is an heir to titles, power and fortune, and a second is, therefore, a spare, should anything happen to the first-born.
He writes: “He set down the water, called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast. He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.”
Harry writes that William urged him to hit back, citing fights they had as children. Harry says he refused to do so. William left, Harry says, then returned “looking regretful, and apologised”.
Harry also recounts how his father, now King Charles, supposedly said to his wife, Princess Diana, on the day of Harry’s birth: “Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an heir and a spare – my work is done.”
The book also reveals important private conversations between the senior royals. Harry recounts a tragic meeting with Charles and William after the Windsor Castle funeral of Prince Phillip, the queen’s husband, in April 2021.
Information indicates that many more revelations are contained in the book.