A former royal biographer says he’s “baffled” by the Duke of Sussex’s memoir, saying it contains the kind of revelations you’d expect from a “B-list celebrity.”
Jonathan Dimbleby said Prince Harry “constructed the story of his life dating back to the death of his mother,” and his long-awaited book, Spare, is set to be released on Tuesday.
Dimbleby, who was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today program as Prince of Wales when he revealed his relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles, said: I am at a loss. He is clearly a very troubled man.
“It just so happens that everyone is concerned about using the word revelation. There are revelations about how many people he thinks are out there. But those are the sort of revelations you’d expect from a B-list celebrity.
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Asked how Prince Charles must feel about the book, Dimbleby said, “I am very distressed, very frustrated and very desperate to end it.” I can only imagine that you are.
However, he said he would be surprised if Harry wasn’t invited to the coronation, “because it’s just adding fuel to the flames.”
Prince Harry claims in his memoir that he wasn’t really the best man at his brother’s Prince of Wales wedding.
Harry said he pretended to be on behalf of two of William’s closest friends, James Meade and Thomas Van Straubenzie, to avoid a high level of scrutiny of their private lives, according to The Mirror. rice field.
In a much-anticipated memoir mistakenly published in the early years of Spain, the Duke described his apparent role as best man as a “bare face lie”, with Meade and Strobenzie at the reception traditionally He added that he gave a speech.
According to The Mirror – one of the many outlets to obtain and translate a copy of the Spanish version – Harry wrote:
The Duke also claimed his brother was “wasted” on rum time before his wedding to Catherine Middleton, and when he went out to greet people at a mall in London before the ceremony, he was drunk.
Harry said he could smell “the aftermath of last night’s rum” in his “tips” brother’s breath, and held out a mint to William as he rolled down the car window and said, “You smell of alcohol.” said.
Harry reportedly wrote about his own wedding seven years later, unable to bear the idea that his brother had privileges that were denied because William had his beard shaved off for the wedding. He claims that William ordered him to shave off his beard because he didn’t.
“At one point, he actually ordered me, as a spare-speaking heiress, to shave off my beard,” he wrote.
The book, due out Tuesday, will be written by J.R. Moehringer and will follow the Netflix documentary about Harry and Meghan. The Duke says he was “horrified” when William screamed and yelled at his tense summit at Sandringham in 2020. .
The memoir, published four months after the death of Harry’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, and the beginning of his father’s reign as king, explores the royal family’s long years amid the “Megxit” crisis and the death of the Duke of Edinburgh. continues to be confused. The Sussexes’ racism accusations in Oprah’s interview and the brothers’ long-running feud.
The report said Harry had killed 25 Taliban fighters during his second visit to Afghanistan, and that he and his brother had asked their father not to marry Camilla, the current queen. Etc. came after the revelations from the memoir were revealed.
