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Prince Harry has admitted doing cocaine and says a woman “with powers” passed on a message from his dead mother.
They are just a few of the dramatic claims in his autobiography Spare, which has been leaked ahead of its official release next week.
Harry describes Prince William as his “archnemesis”, and claims his older brother and Princess Kate encouraged him to dress up as a Nazi soldier – an incident he has called “one of the biggest mistakes in my life”.
In another explosive allegation, Harry claims his brother physically attacked him during an argument in 2019 over the Duke of Sussex’s marriage to Meghan Markle, who William allegedly called “difficult”, “rude” and “abrasive”.
Harry is quoted as saying: “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.”
The palace has declined to comment on the many allegations.
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In the memoir, Prince Harry also speaks candidly about his grief and reveals that he drove through the same Paris tunnel his mother, Princess Diana, drove through when she died in 1997.
“I got the closure I was pretending to seek. I got it in spades. And now I’d never be able to get rid of it,” he writes. “I’d thought driving the tunnel would bring an end, or brief cessation, to the pain, the decade of unrelenting pain. Instead it brought on the start of Pain, Part Deux.”
Harry says he drove through same tunnel where mother Diana died in new memoir
Prince Harry saw ‘red mist’ in William during alleged physical attack over Meghan Markle
07:57 , Andy Gregory
The Duke of Sussex has said he saw a “red mist” in his brother William during an alleged confrontation between the pair in a row over Meghan Markle, reports Alana Calvert.
The revelation came in a newly-released clip from ITV’s forthcoming interview with Harry, where the duke said he described his brother as being spoiling for a fight during the incident which reportedly took place in 2019.
“He wanted me to hit him back, but I chose not to,” he says of his brother who he earlier claimed in his book had physically attacked him – as was first reported by The Guardian.
In the clip, released early on Friday morning, Harry tells Tom Bradby: “What was different here was the level of frustration, and I talk about the red mist that I had for so many years, and I saw this red mist in him.”
Prince Harry saw ‘red mist’ in William during alleged physical attack over Meghan
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The Duke of Sussex has been a longtime advocate for therapy. In his memoir, Spare, he claims that, after he got into a physical altercation with his big brother, he didn’t immediately tell Meghan, but called his therapist.
Meredith Clark reports on how men could learn from Harry’s phone call, in a society where men are stigmatised for seeking mental health help.
The detail of the Harry and William revelations everyone is missing
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According to Prince Harry, the rift between himself and his brother didn’t begin with Meghan, as he alleges that William was “gone forever” after he married Kate Middleton in 2011.
“The brother I’d escorted into Westminster Abbey that morning was gone - forever. Who could deny it?” he writes. “He’d never again be first a foremost Willy. We’d never again ride together across the Lesotho countryside with capes blowing behind us. We’d never again share a horsey-smelling cottage while learning to fly. Who shall separate us? Life, that’s who.”
Harry says William was ‘gone forever’ after he married Kate Middleton in new memoir
Harry accused of putting family in danger after claiming 25 kills in Afghanistan
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Memoir revelation ‘an absolute nightmare for his security teams’ it is claimed.
Harry accused of putting family in danger after claiming 25 kills in Afghanistan
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The memoir also sees a number of allegations levelled at Prince Harry’s brother William.
In one of the most explosive excerpts, Harry claims that his brother physically attacked him during a fight about Meghan Markle.
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Prince Harry abandons royal family’s mantra of “never complain, never explain” in new autobiography Spare.
Eleanor Noyce has the story.
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Despite his suggestions that he may be ready to put the past behind him, Prince Harry’s memoir also criticises members of his family, including his father Charles.
At one point, Harry reportedly reflects on jokes his father made about his paternity, and whether he is his “real father”.
According to Harry, the jokes were in especially “poor taste” considering they were made amid rumours that Charles was not his biological father.
Prince Harry claims Charles joked about possibility he wasn’t his ‘real father’
Prince Harry recalls fight with Meghan Markle that led him to seek therapy
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Duke of Sussex recalled how he got ‘sloppily angry’ during a fight with his wife in his new memoir.
Amber Raiken has the details.
Prince Harry recalls fight with Meghan Markle that led him to seek therapy
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Interestingly, Harry claims the “ball is in their court” when it comes to whether he will travel to London for King Charles’ coronation in May.
The Duke of Sussex confirmed that he is waiting on the royal family’s decision during a trailer clip ahead of his interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby.
“There’s a lot that can happen between now and then. But, the door is always open. The ball is in their court,” he said.
The comment is just one of many that Harry has made about possible reconciliations with his family in interviews in the lead-up to his book’s release.
Everything Harry has said about the royal family in interviews about his memoir
Prince Harry claims William was ‘livid’ he kept beard for his wedding, calls brother’s baldness ‘alarming’
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‘At one point he actually ordered me, as the ‘heir’ speaking to the ‘spare,’ to shave,’ Harry reportedly writes in his memoir.
Meredith Clark has the story.
Prince Harry claims William was livid’ he kept beard for his 2018 wedding
02:06 , Chelsea Ritschel
The accusation is just one Prince Harry levels against the Queen Consort in the memoir, as he also claims that he and his brother Prince William “begged” their father not to marry his longtime love.
According to Harry, he was worried that Camilla would become an “evil stepmother”.
Elsewhere in the memoir, the Duke of Sussex likens his first meeting with Camillla to getting an “injection”.
Harry compares first meeting with Camilla to getting an injection, reports say
01:06 , Chelsea Ritschel
Harry also makes a number of claims about his stepmother, Camilla Parker Bowles, in his upcoming memoir, including that she allegedly changed his bedroom at Clarence House into her dressing room.
According to the duke, despite trying “not to care,” he couldn’t help but feel upset over the transformation.
“I tried not to care. But especially the first time I saw it, I cared,” he writes.
Prince Harry claims Camilla changed his bedroom into her dressing room
00:00 , Chelsea Ritschel
Elsewhere in the forthcoming memoir, Prince Harry describes an encounter that took place between his wife Meghan Markle and his sister-in-law Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, shortly before the Sussexes’ royal wedding in 2018.
According to Harry, an issue arose among the two women after Meghan remarked to Kate that she may be suffering from “baby brain,” as she had just given birth to her and Prince William’s third child, son Louis.
Meghan was reportedly told off for the comment, on the basis she wasn’t close enough to Kate to remark on her hormones.
Meghan was told off for telling Kate she had ‘baby brain’, Harry reveals in new book
Prince Harry says he made the ‘mistake’ of Googling Meghan Markle’s sex scenes in Suits
23:00 , Eleanor Noyce
Prince Harry expressed the extreme discomfort he felt after watching Meghan Markle’s sex scenes in Suits.
From 2011 and 2018, Markle starred as lawyer Rachel Zane in the hit legal drama opposite Patrick J Adams, who played her love interest, Mike Ross.
Markle married producer Trevor Engelson just after the show’s first season premiered, before getting divorced in 2014.
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Prince Harry says he made ‘mistake’ of Googling Meghan Markle’s Suits sex scenes
“People look at these things and are entertained”, says Mark Borkowski
22:30 , Eleanor Noyce
Analysing the media’s reporting on Prince Harry and the Royal Family in a Sky News Q&A, Mark Borkowski, PR agent and crisis consultant, has stated that “people look at these things and are entertained.”
“This is a public live soap opera with some of the most famous individuals in the world,” Borkowski said.
“And lets not forget now that Harry and Meghan are US-based. They are in California. The media there are feeding on the story. The New York Times only a few weeks ago did an op-ed on how the Royal Family should reform.
“It’s headlines across the world.”
Harry opens up about losing virginity to older woman behind pub
22:00 , Eleanor Noyce
The Duke of Sussex has opened up about losing his virginity to an older woman in a field behind a pub.
In his memoir Spare, Harry writes about how he lost his virginity to an unnamed older woman at the same age, according to the Daily Mail.
He claims it took place in a field behind a “very busy pub” and that the woman treated him like a “young stallion”.
Rebecca Speare-Cole has more:
Harry opens up about losing virginity to older woman behind pub
“You didn’t know her”: Harry recounts disliking shaking hands with the public after Princess Diana’s death
21:30 , Eleanor Noyce
In his forthcoming memoir, Prince Harry recalls meeting members of the public following his mother’s death in 1997.
Remarking that he “disliked the touch of those hands”, he notes struggling as he walked with Prince William amongst the crowds following Princess Diana’s death.
“I disliked the touch of those hands. What’s more, I disliked how they made me feel guilty. Why were all of those people crying when I was neither crying nor able to cry?”, he writes.
“I wanted to cry, and I had tried, because my mother’s life had been so sad that she had felt the need to disappear, to invent that monumental farce.”
“I remember consoling several people who were prostrated, overwhelmed, as if they had met my mother, but also thinking: ‘The thing is that no. You act as if you had met her... but you didn’t know her’.”
Harry details the moment he learned of mother, Princess Diana’s car crash
21:00 , Eleanor Noyce
Detailing the 1997 car accident that would prove fatal for his mother, Princess Diana, Prince Harry has revealed that his father broke the news.
Prince Charles “sat on the edge of the bed and put his hand on my knee”, he writes, as reported by Sky News. “My dear son, mum has had a car accident.
“There have been complications. Mum has been seriously injured and has been taken to hospital, my dear son.”
“He would always call me ‘dear son’, but he was repeating it a lot. He spoke quietly. It gave me the impression he was in shock.”
Harry ‘accuses William of attacking him in row over Meghan’ in leaked extracts from memoir
20:30 , Eleanor Noyce
Prince William physically attacked his brother and knocked him to the floor during a furious confrontation over Meghan Markle, Prince Harry claims in a series of explosive leaked revelations from his memoir, Spare.
The heir to the throne grabbed his younger sibling by the collar and ripped his necklace in the encounter, according to reported extracts from copies of the book obtained ahead of its launch.
It is among several extraordinary claims that lay bare the scale of the rift at the heart of the royal family which threatens to overshadow King Charles’ coronation.
Alastair Jamieson has more:
Harry book ‘accuses William of attacking him in row over Meghan’
Harry claims he and William were discouraged from requesting the investigation into Diana’s death be reopened
20:00 , Eleanor Noyce
Prince Harry has claimed that he and Prince William were dissuaded from asking for the investigation into Princess Diana’s death to be reopened, Sky News reports.
“Especially the summary conclusion, that our mother’s driver was drunk and, as a result, that was the only cause of the accident. It was simplistic and absurd”, the Duke of Sussex writes.
“Even if the man had been drinking, even if he had been drunk, he wouldn’t have had any problem driving through such a short tunnel. Unless paparazzi were following him and dazzled him.
“Why had those paparazzi got off lightly? Why weren’t they in prison? Who had sent them? And why weren’t those people in jail either? What other reason could there be apart from corruption and cover-ups being the order of the day?
“We agreed on all those questions, and also what we should do next. We would issue a statement, asking jointly for the investigation to be reopened. We might call a press conference. Those who decided dissuaded us.”
Harry’s next TV appearance confirmed for The Late Show on CBS with Stephen Colbert
19:37 , Eleanor Noyce
Prince Harry’s next TV appearance has been confirmed. He will appear on The Late Show on CBS with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night, or Wednesday morning UK time.
Harry will also be on Good Morning America on ABC with Michael Strahan. In the UK, he’ll be on ITV with Tom Bradby.
Prince Harry claims King Charles joked about possibility he wasn’t his ‘real father’ in new book
19:30 , Eleanor Noyce
Prince Harry has claimed in his new book that his father King Charles III made a “poor taste” joke about his paternity after meeting a mentally ill individual who believed he was the real Prince of Wales.
The Duke of Sussex reflects on the incident, and his father’s passion for telling “anecdotes,” in his new memoir Spare, according to the DailyMail, which obtained a copy of the book ahead of its release. The highly anticipated memoir will be released on 10 January.
Harry reportedly claims in the book that his father especially liked to tell a story about his visit to a mental asylum where he met a mentally ill man who claimed he was the Prince of Wales.
Prince Harry claims Charles joked about possibility he wasn’t his ‘real father’
Prince Harry alleges a physical attack by William in new book Spare – here’s how to pre-order the memoir
19:00 , Eleanor Noyce
From the Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan to an eagerly anticipated autobiography, Spare, Prince Harry has been busy forging a media career outside the royal family.
Following months of speculation, publisher Penguin Random House confirmed Harry’s tell-all book will be released on 10 January 2023, in 16 different languages, plus there’ll be an audiobook read by the prince himself.
It’s safe to say we can expect explosive revelations (and accusations) in the memoir, which has been ghostwritten by Pulitzer Prize winner JR Moehringer.
In an extract obtained by The Guardian five days ahead of publication, Prince Harry has reportedly claimed his brother Prince William “grabbed” him, ripping his necklace and knocking him “to the floor” during an argument over his marriage to Meghan Markle.
Here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming memoir:
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18:50 , Eleanor Noyce
Prince Harry’s new memoir Spare will be published on 10 January – just a little over a month after his and wife Meghan Markle’s Netflix documentary was released amid controversy.
Ghostwritten by Pulitzer Prize winner JR Moehringer, the “personal and emotional” book reportedly includes claims that Prince William physically attacked Harry at his London home during an argument about the Duchess of Sussex in 2019.
Harry also reportedly writes that King Charles asked his sons not to “make my final years a misery” during a conversation that took place after Prince Philip’s funeral in March 2021.
Everything Harry has said about the royal family in interviews about his memoir
Prince Harry says woman with ‘powers’ gave him message from Diana
18:40 , Eleanor Noyce
Prince Harry says the grief of losing his mother led him to a woman with “powers” who gave him a “message” from Diana.
The Duke of Sussex describes the encounter in his new autobiography ‘Spare’, which has leaked ahead of its release next week.
Harry said that while he recognised the “high-percentage chance of humbuggery”, he ultimately decided to meet the woman because she was recommended by friends.
Maanya Sachdeva has more:
Prince Harry says woman with ‘powers’ gave him message from his late mother Diana
Prince Harry says Prince William was ‘gone forever’ after he married Kate Middleton in new memoir
18:30 , Eleanor Noyce
Prince Harry has reflected on his relationship with his older brother, Prince William, and how he felt like his sibling was “gone forever” after he married Kate Middleton in 2011.
In his memoir Spare, which is set for release on 10 January, Harry reportedly recalled how he felt on William’s wedding day. According to an excerpt of the book published by Page Six, the Duke of Sussex wrote about saying “goodbye” to his brother, whose childhood nickname was Willy, and reflected on some of their memories together.
“The brother I’d escorted into Westminster Abbey that morning was gone — forever. Who could deny it?” he wrote. “He’d never again be first a foremost Willy. We’d never again ride together across the Lesotho countryside with capes blowing behind us. We’d never again share a horsey-smelling cottage while learning to fly. Who shall separate us? Life, that’s who.”
Amber Raiken reports:
Harry says William was ‘gone forever’ after he married Kate Middleton in new memoir
King Charles asked Harry and William not to ‘make my final years a misery’, reports say
18:20 , Eleanor Noyce
Prince Harry has reportedly claimed King Charles asked him and William not to “make my final years a misery” at Prince Philip’s funeral last year.
Details about the conversation between Charles and his sons are believed to be part of the Duke of Sussex’s forthcoming memoir Spare, which will be released next week.
According to The Guardian, which said it had obtained a copy of the book ahead of publication on 10 January, Spare includes Harry’s “unsparing” retelling of private scenes and conversations between senior royals.
Maanya Sachdeva reports:
Charles asked Harry and William not to ‘make my final years a misery’, reports say
Prince Harry claims King Charles told Diana his ‘work’ was ‘done’ after duke was born in new memoir
18:10 , Eleanor Noyce
Prince Harry claimed that his father, King Charles III, once told first wife Princess Diana that his “work” was “done” after the Duke of Sussex was born.
In an excerpt of his new memoir, Spare, released by The Guardian, Harry described how his father reacted to the birth of his second son in 1984. Harry’s older brother, Prince William, was born two years earlier in 1982.
According to the publication, Harry wrote about the day of his birth and recalled a comment that his father told his wife: “Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an heir and a spare – my work is done.”
Amber Raiken reports:
Prince Harry claims King Charles told Diana his ‘work’ was ‘done’ after duke was born
UK bookshops agreed on Spare embargo to avoid early release
18:00 , Eleanor Noyce
UK bookshops state that they are under a strict embargo to ensure that Harry, The Duke of Sussex’s autobiography is not released early.
According to PA, dozens of independent bookshops are yet to receive their copies. One owner of a shop in north London reported that they had signed a document ensuring that the book is not released ahead of schedule.
Many further reported that they are unlikely to receive the book until late on Monday ahead of its Tuesday release. One owner described these lengths as “ridiculous.”
Meghan apologised to Kate over ‘baby brain’ comment in run-up to Sussexes wedding
17:50 , Eleanor Noyce
The Duchess of Sussex upset Kate, now Princess of Wales, by remarking that she must have “baby brain” in the run-up to the Royal Wedding in 2019. Harry writes that Meghan apologised, his upcoming memoir, Spare, details.
The Duke of Sussex states that Meghan made the comment during a phone call concerning wedding rehearsals, according to The Sun’s translation of a leaked Spanish copy of the book.
Kate had recently given birth to Prince Louis, suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, a condition caused by hormone imbalance, during all three of her pregnancies.
Harry claims that during this altercation Kate admitted to making Meghan cry. According to the memoir, Meghan apologised to Kate, stating that this is how she speaks to her friends.
Prince William, now the Prince of Wales, then “pointed a finger” at Meghan, saying: “Well, it’s rude, Meghan. These things are not done here.”
Chelsea Ritschel has more:
Meghan was told off for telling Kate she had ‘baby brain,’ Harry reveals in new book
Harry writes of losing his virginity to an unnamed older woman behind a ‘very busy pub'
17:40 , Eleanor Noyce
In his upcoming memoir, Spare, The Duke of Sussex has opened up about losing his virginity to an older woman.
According to the Daily Mail, he claims that it took place behind a “very busy pub” and that the woman treated him like a “young stallion.”
Harry writes that one of the Royal Family’s bodyguards Marko paid him a visit when he was a pupil at Eton College in Windsor. He told him that he had been sent to “find out the truth.”
“I suspected he was referring to my recent loss of virginity, a humiliating episode with an older woman who liked macho horses and who treated me like a young stallion”, Harry details.
“I mounted her quickly, after which she spanked my ass and sent me away.
“One of my many mistakes was letting it happen in a field, just behind a very busy pub. No doubt someone had seen us.”
In an interview with The Times in December, actor and model Liz Hurley denied circulating rumours that she had taken Harry’s virginity. “Not me. Not guilty. Ha!”, she remarked.
Willy and Harold and the cursed dog bowl: How a sibling scrap threatens to topple the royal family
17:30 , Eleanor Noyce
“I landed on the dog’s bowl. Pieces cut into me”. That particular detail in Harry’s account of his scrap with his elder brother struck a rather tragi-comic note of bathos.
It also gave the story the ring of truth, especially as we hear rumours that Prince William has a bit of a temper on him, rather surprising given his serene, slightly self-effacing public persona. He is alleged to have laid into Meghan verbally – “difficult”, “rude”, “abrasive” and then it is claimed that he physically laid into his younger brother. It conjures up quite a disturbing image, this princely fracas, and is made all the more poignant as Harry uses their pet names: “Willy” and “Harold”.
Sean O’Grady has more:
Willy and Harold and the cursed dog bowl could topple the royal family | Sean O’Grady
‘It never needed to be this way’: Everything Harry has said about the royal family in memoir interviews
17:20 , Eleanor Noyce
Prince Harry’s new memoir Spare will be published on 10 January – just a little over a month after his and wife Meghan Markle’s Netflix documentary was released amid controversy.
Ghostwritten by Pulitzer Prize winner JR Moehringer, the “personal and emotional” book reportedly includes claims that Prince William physically attacked Harry at his London home during an argument about the Duchess of Sussex in 2019.
Harry also reportedly writes that King Charles asked his sons not to “make my final years a misery” during a conversation that took place after Prince Philip’s funeral in March 2021.
Read more:
Everything Harry has said about the royal family in interviews about his memoir
The Windsors? More like The Jeremy Kyle Show
17:10 , Eleanor Noyce
Who’d have thought The Windsors would become an aristocratic version of The Jeremy Kyle Show?
Well, anyone, to be honest; the crown’s been slipping for years already. Long before Harry started snitching on his big brother, the royal family’s public exposés, scandals, betrayals, disclosures and petty humiliations have turned the conditions that created the late Queen’s infamous “annus horrriblis” of 1992 into business as usual.
Katie Edwards writes:
Opinion: The Windsors? More like The Jeremy Kyle Show
Prince Harry admits doing cocaine as teenager ‘to feel different’
17:03 , Eleanor Noyce
Prince Harry has admitted taking cocaine when he was 17 years-old.
In his new autobiography Spare, the Duke of Sussex explained that he took the illegal drug ‘to feel different’.
“Of course I had been taking cocaine at that time,” Sky News quotes from the leaked book. “At someone’s house, during a hunting weekend, I was offered a line, and since then I had consumed some more.
“It wasn’t very fun, and it didn’t make me feel especially happy as seemed to happen to others, but it did make me feel different, and that was my main objective. To feel. To be different.
“I was a seventeen-year-old willing to try almost anything that would alter the pre-established order.”
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Prince Harry admits doing cocaine as teenager ‘to feel different’
Prince Harry’s memoir Spare accidentally goes on sale in Spain days before release
16:10 , Andy Gregory
Prince Harry‘s highly anticipated memoir Spare has accidentally gone on sale in Spain, days before the official publication date on 10 January, my colleague Thomas Kingsley reports.
The memoir, titled En La Sombra in Spanish, translates to “In the Shadow”, and has “Príncipe Harry” at the top of the cover with his close-up shot on the front.
One Spanish shopper bought two hardback copies of the book from the shelves, for a total of around £20, The Sun reported.
Images published by The Sun show the book open on a page bearing a black-and-white photo of the Duke as a young boy with his mother, Princess Diana, alongside the words “Primera parte - Desde la noche que me envuelve”, or “Part one - Since the night that surrounds me”.
Prince Harry’s memoir Spare accidentally goes on sale in Spain days before release
Prince Harry says he killed 25 people in Afghanistan during tour of duty
15:39 , Andy Gregory
Prince Harry has reportedly claimed in his forthcoming autobiography that he killed 25 people when he was an Apache helicopter pilot during his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, writes my colleague Jane Dalton.
He flew on six missions that resulted in “the taking of human lives”, something of which he is neither proud nor ashamed, The Telegraph reported.
In the heat of combat, the prince did not think of the 25 as “people” but instead as “chess pieces” that had been taken off the board.
Prince Harry says he killed 25 people in Afghanistan on tour of duty
‘Close your eyes and you won’t feel it’: Harry compares first meeting Camilla to getting an ‘injection’
15:15 , Andy Gregory
Prince Harry reportedly compares his first meeting with stepmother and now Queen Consort Camilla to getting an “injection” in his new book, my colleague Maanya Sachdeva reports.
According to MailOnline, which said it obtained copies of the book after it was accidentally released in Spain, Charles’s sons did not stand in the way of his relationship with Camilla, but“begged” him not to remarry after the death of Princess Diana.
Furthermore, Harry’s book claims that Charles allegedly tried to “win over the kids” before asking the British public to accept his relationship with Camilla. He reportedly says that meeting Camilla – referred to as the “Other Woman” in his book – was like an “injection”, writing: “Close your eyes and you won’t even feel it.”
Harry reportedly continues: “I remember wondering... if she would be cruel to me; if she would be like all the evil stepmothers in the stories.”
Harry compares first meeting with Camilla to getting an injection, reports say
Pictured: The Sun’s front page on day pictures showing Harry in Nazi uniform emerged
14:49 , Andy Gregory
As Prince Harry reportedly claims that Prince William encouraged him to wear the Nazi uniform to a fancy dress party in 2005, in an incident previously claimed to have bred “resentment” at the treatment he received from the press, here is The Sun’s front page on the day the news emerged:
Prince Harry’s new book reveals royal family nicknames
14:22 , Andy Gregory
The extract from Prince Harry’s memoir reported by The Guardian appears to reveal the nicknames by which he and his brother referred to each other – Harold and Willy.
My colleague Joe Sommerlad has more:
Prince Harry’s new book reveals royal family nicknames
The unusual family link between Prince Harry and CNN’s Anderson Cooper
13:56 , Andy Gregory
Prince Harry has sat down with CNN’s Anderson Cooper for a new interview due for broadcast on Sunday, two days ahead of release of his ghost-written memoir Spare.
The pair allegedly bear family ties dating back to the 1930s – when Cooper’s great-aunt, Thelma Furness, was known to have had an ongoing affair with the Duke’s great-great uncle, King Edward VIII, reports Ellie Muir.
Viscountess Furness was allegedly a mistress of Edward while he was Prince of Wales and while she was married to British shipping magnate, Marmaduke Furness, who was 20 years her senior.
Later, Edward married American divorcée Wallis Simpson, for whom he abdicated and became the Duke of Windsor.
The unusual family link between Prince Harry and Anderson Cooper
All the times Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s 2022 revelations were proved right, or wrong
13:28 , Andy Gregory
Throughout the past year, the Sussexes haves made a number of shocking revelations about their time as senior members of the royal family.
From baby Archie’s nursery fire in South Africa to Meghan’s first meeting with Princess Kate, my colleague Meredith Clark examines some of Harry and Meghan’s most shocking claims in 2022:
From nursery fire to meeting Kate: Harry and Meghan’s biggest revelations of 2022
Prince Harry memoir ‘accidentally goes on sale early in Spain'
13:01 , Andy Gregory
Prince Harry’s upcoming book – due for release on 10 January – accidentally went on sale early in Spain, according to The Sun.
The Spanish version En La Sombra, which translates as In the Shadow, shows that Harry has dedicated his memoir “Para Meg, Archie y Lili ... y, for supuesto, mi madre”, meaning: “For Meg, Archie and Lili ... and, of course, my mother”.
Nazi uniform claims echo allegations in 2020 book by royal historian
12:32 , Andy Gregory
According to Page Six, which reported Prince Harry’s supposed claims that his brother encouraged him to wear a Nazi uniform to a fancy dress party in 2005, the allegations closely echo those made in a previous book about the royal siblings by historian Robert Lacey.
The 2020 book, Battle of Brothers, claims: “Harry chose his costume in conjunction with his elder brother — the future King William V, then 22, who had laughed all the way back to Highgrove (Charles’ country home) with the younger sibling he was supposed to be mentoring — and then onwards to the party together.”
Lacey wrote: “The young prince began re-evaluating his elder brother’s involvement and the unfairness of William’s subsequent emergence smelling of roses, adding that the incident “made Harry feel resentful and even alienated” and alleging that William was the one who would “coax” Harry into his “errant and self-destructive ways.”
“For the first time, their relationship really suffered and they barely spoke,” one former aide is quoted as saying in the book. “Harry resented the fact that William got away so lightly.”
Harry ‘claims William encouraged him to wear Nazi soldier costume’ in new book
12:07 , Andy Gregory
Prince Harry’s forthcoming memoir reportedly includes a claim that Prince William and Kate encouraged him to wear the infamous Nazi soldier costume to a party in 2005 – a decision he has described as “probably one of the biggest mistakes of my life”.
The Duke of Sussex was aged 20 when he was photographed wearing the costume, complete with a swastika on his arm, to a “native and colonial” party hosted by Olympic show jumper Richard Meade.
Page Six said it had obtained a copy of Spare and quoted Harry as claiming he had been choosing between a pilot uniform or a Nazi uniform, writing: “I phoned Willy and Kate, asked what they thought. Nazi uniform, they said.
“They both howled. Worse than Willy’s leotard outfit! Way more ridiculous! Which, again, was the point,” the 38-year-old continues.
William also attended the costume party, dressed in a lion outfit. The Independent has contacted Kensington Palace for comment.
My colleague Maanya Sachdeva reports:
Harry ‘claims William encouraged him to wear Nazi soldier costume’ in new book
Comment | If Harry really wants his family back, he’d be smart to stop talking so much
11:42 , Andy Gregory
Ahead of the publication of Prince Harry’s new book, our relationships writer Olivia Petter offers her analysis that “after all of this media face time”, the Duke of Sussex risks winding up “without the one thing he wants most in the world: his family”.
She writes: “Anyone who has ever argued with a loved one will know too well that third-party interference rarely helps, let alone when that third party is everyone in existence.
“Think about all the times you’ve criticised one family member behind their back to another: did it help alleviate tensions? Of course it didn’t. It probably just created more of it. Everyone has their own version of events, or a narrative they feel comfortable presenting to the world. And it will, in all likeliness, differ significantly from the narrative of the person you’re at odds with.
“When it comes to Harry and Meghan, we’ve so far only heard one story; based on royal history – and a firm ‘never complain, never explain’ protocol – I doubt we’ll get another.”
You can read her thinking in full here:
If Harry really wants his family back, he’d be smart to stop talking so much
Prince Harry says he and Meghan have been portrayed as ‘villains’
11:17 , Andy Gregory
In the first trailer for ITV’s upcoming interview with Prince Harry, the royal claims that he and Meghan Markle have been portrayed as “villains”.
Meanwhile, he alleges that “they have shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile”. It is unclear who he is referring to when he says “they”.
“I would like to get my father back, I would like to have my brother back,” he says, adding: “It never needed to be this way.”
The second trailer has been released today.
My colleague Ellie Muir has the full report:
Prince Harry says he wants ‘a family, not an institution’
Prince Harry’s new book ‘likely to spark serious furore’, report claims
11:01 , Andy Gregory
In its report detailing alleged claims of an attack by Prince William on his brother, The Guardian, claims that Prince Harry’s new autobiography “is likely to spark a serious furore for the British royal family”.
The newspaper, which claims to have obtained a copy ahead of the book’s publication on 10 January, called it “a remarkable volume”, which “extensively” covers allegations made by the couple in their Oprah Winfrey and Netflix interviews, including Meghan Markle’s thoughts of suicide and alleged racism within royal circles.
What is the history of the two princes’ relationship?
10:46 , Reuters
Prince Harry and Prince William were once seen as very close after the death of their mother, Princess Diana, in a Paris car crash in 1997.
But the brothers have fallen out since Harry married Meghan Markle, a former actress, in 2018 and the couple then stepped back from royal duties to move to California two years later.
Since their departure, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as the couple are officially known, have delivered stinging criticism of the Windsors and the British monarchy which has included accusations of racism – which William himself has dismissed.
Last month, their six-part Netflix documentary, which attracted record audiences, aired with renewed accusations including that William had screamed at Harry during a crisis summit to discuss his future.
The main criticism from Harry and Meghan is that royal aides not only refused to hit back at hostile, inaccurate press coverage but were complicit in leaking negative stories to protect other royals, most notably William.
Prince Harry reportedly claims father King Charles referred to him as ‘spare’ at birth
10:32 , Andy Gregory
The title of Prince Harry’s forthcoming book, Spare, comes from an oft-cited quote in British aristocratic circles about the need for an heir, and a spare.
According to the Guardian, which has obtained a copy, the book’s “unifying theme” is of the Duke of Sussex’s “resentment of being the ‘spare’.
Harry is reported to claim that, on the day he was born to his mother, Princess Diana, his father King Charles told her: “Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an heir and a spare – my work is done.”
King Charles asked Harry and William not to ‘make my final years a misery’, reports say
10:15 , Andy Gregory
Prince Harry has reportedly claimed that King Charles asked him and Prince William not to “make my final years a misery” at Prince Philip’s funeral last year, writes my colleague Maanya Sachdeva.
According to The Guardian, which said it had obtained a copy of the Duke of Sussex’s autobiography ahead of publication on 10 January, Spare includes Harry’s “unsparing” retelling of private scenes and conversations between senior royals.
One such moment occurred after the Duke of Edinburgh’s Windsor Castle funeral in March 2021, when Charles reportedly “stood between” Harry and William “looking up at our flushed faces”, the King’s younger son wrote.
“Please boys,” Harry quotes Charles as saying, “Don’t make my final years a misery.”
Charles asked Harry and William not to ‘make my final years a misery’, reports say
Prince Harry says he still believes in the monarchy
09:58 , Andy Gregory
Prince Harry has said that he still believes in the monarchy – but does not know whether he will play a role in its future.
In a forthcoming interview with ITV, the Duke of Sussex – who “stepped back” from his position as a senior royal in January 2020 alongside his wife Meghan Markle – was asked whether he still believed in his family’s constitutional role.
Answering that he did, the duke was then pressed on whether he himself would play a role in the monarchy’s future, to which he replied: “I don’t know.”
Prince Harry says ‘a lot can happen’ prior to King Charles’s coronation
09:40 , Andy Gregory
Prince Harry has said that “a lot can happen between now and then” when asked whether he will attend his father King Charles’s coronation in May.
A trailed clip of ITV’s upcoming broadcast, Harry: The Interview, shows Tom Bradby asking the Duke of Sussex whether he will attend the ceremony if he receives an invite.
“There’s a lot that can happen between now and then,” the duke replies. “But, the door is always open. The ball is in their court. There’s a lot to be discussed and I really hope that they’re willing to sit down and talk about it.”
Prince Harry rejects suggestion he is invading his family’s privacy
09:24 , Andy Gregory
Prince Harry has claimed that those who accuse him of invading his family’s privacy either “don’t understand or don’t want to believe that my family have been briefing the press”.
In a second trailer released by ITV for the Duke of Sussex’s forthcoming interview with Tom Bradby, due for broadcast on Sunday, in which he questions the royal about his decision to discuss his family relationships publicly in his new book, Harry says: “I don’t know how staying silent is ever going to make things better.”
Put to him that Prince William might question how his brother could “do this to me after everything” they went through together, the duke replies: “He would probably say all sorts of different things.”
Confronted with the fact that his new book will spark accusations that, after railing against invasions of privacy all his life, he is now “invading the privacy of [his] nearest and dearest without permission”, the royal retorts: “That would be the accusation from people that don’t understand or don’t want to believe that my family have been briefing the press.”
Meghan Markle was ‘terribly sad’ about alleged attack, book reportedly claims
09:09 , Andy Gregory
After the alleged attack by his brother, Prince Harry claims in his book that he was left with visible “scrapes and bruises” on his back, according to The Guardian.
The Duke of Sussex reportedly claims that he told his wife Meghan Markle of the alleged attack after she noticed the marks on his back, and that she “wasn’t that surprised, and wasn’t all that angry” but was “terribly sad”.
Prince Harry ‘questioned brother’s attempt to help him’ prior to alleged attack
08:54 , Andy Gregory
Here are more details on the alleged row between the two brothers at Nottingham Cottage in 2019.
Prince William claimed he was trying to help his younger brother, the book reportedly claims, with Harry replying: “Are you serious? Help me? Sorry – is that what you call this? Helping me?”
According to the Guardian’s report, Prince Harry said that his brother was angry and swore at him, and because he was scared, Harry went into the kitchen with William following him, before handing him a glass of water and saying: “Willy, I can’t speak to you when you’re like this.”
Harry then reportedly proceeds to detail the alleged attack, writing: “He set down the water, called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast.”
What to expect from Prince Harry’s new book
08:46 , Andy Gregory
Prince Harry’s new autobiography will be released on 10 January, in 16 different languages, with an audiobook read by the duke himself, according to its publisher Penguin Random House.
The title is said to offer a personal insight into Harry’s life and, according to the publisher, it will be “the definitive account of the experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons that have helped shape him”.
A source has claimed to The Sunday Times that the autobiography – which has been ghostwritten by Pulitzer Prize winner JR Moehringer – is “tough on William in particular” and “even Kate gets a bit of a broadside”.
King Charles supposedly “comes out of it better” than expected, however.
You can find out more details on its release here:
What to know about Prince Harry’s memoir
Prince Harry alleges William physically attacked him in new book, report says
08:42 , Andy Gregory
My colleague Graeme Massie has the full report on the alleged claims by Prince Harry that his brother physically attacked him in 2019 during a row about his marriage to Meghan Markle.
Prince Harry alleges William physically attacked him in new book, report says
08:41 , Andy Gregory
Good morning, we’ll be using this liveblog to follow the latest updates on the claims allegedly made in Prince Harry’s new autobiography, Spare.
