Prince Harry faces criticism over memoir leaks

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Prince Harry faced backlash in the UK and beyond his ‘Spare’ memoir on Friday, with criticism from the media, commentators, army veterans and even the Taliban, while the palace of Buckingham has remained silent on the widely leaked content.

Days before the official release on Tuesday, revelations from the book dominated headlines and airwaves after a Spanish-language version of the memoir was mistakenly put up for sale in Spain.

Revelations such as how heir to the throne Prince William allegedly shoved Harry to the ground in a row in 2019 about how he lost his virginity, took drugs and killed 25 people in Afghanistan have sparked controversy. both condemnation and derision.

Writer AN Wilson called the ghost-written tome – the greatest royal tome since Harry’s mother Princess Diana collaborated with Andrew Morton on ‘Diana: Her True Story’ in 1992 – “calculated and despicable ” and a work of “malevolence”.

Describing his decision to go public “stupid”, Wilson said the book had simply succeeded in getting the public to sympathize with the royal family, “not with him”.

The book aroused both denunciation and derision from the media Daniel LEAL

The book is the latest hostile outburst from Harry and his American wife Meghan after they quit royal duties and moved to California in 2020.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as they are officially known, have since benefited from their royal connections with several lucrative deals for tell-all books and programs.

The Spanish version of the book was hastily pulled from shelves after Thursday’s blunder, but not before it was bought up by the media, breaking the publisher’s strict global embargo.

The Sun tabloid said that while people sympathized with Harry, 38, over the trauma of losing his mother as a child and having to cry in the public eye, “neither can justify the destructive path and avenger he chose, throwing his own family under a bus for millions of dollars”.

This is Harry and Meghan’s last hostile outburst since stepping down from royal duties Danny Lawson

In an op-ed, she pointed to “countless discrepancies” in his claims and advised him to listen to friends who urged him to “stop for his own good”.

The Guardian’s Gaby Hinsliff said the book went beyond issues of “inconvenient public interest” to address “dirty laundry” in public.

The US edition of the left-leaning newspaper, which has questioned the role of the monarchy in modern Britain, was the first to publish a leaked extract from the book this week, in which Harry describes his physical altercation with William.

“The details of the brothers’ alleged brawl in a palace cottage are both almost ridiculously trivial and heartbreakingly sad,” she wrote.

Harry’s claim to have killed 25 people in Afghanistan, and likening his actions to removing “chess pieces” from a chessboard, was seen as boastful and inappropriate, and enraged some veterans.

Retired Colonel Tim Collins, who led a British battalion in Iraq in 2003, condemned a “tragic profit-making scam”, adding: “That’s not how you behave in the army. it’s not how we think”.

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“Harry has now turned on the other family, the military, who once embraced him, after trashing his biological family,” he added.

Another high-ranking veteran who served in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp, said his remarks would “fuel jihadist propaganda”.

Senior Taliban leader Anas Haqqani tweeted: “Mr. Harry! Those you killed were not chess pieces, they were humans; they had families waiting for them to return.”

As the #ShutUpHarry hashtag started trending on Twitter, The Sun quoted sources close to his father, King Charles III, as saying he was saddened by the book.

But there has been no official comment from the palace.

The only previous royal reaction to Harry and Meghan’s complaints was after they accused an unnamed senior royal of racism in their 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey.

William told a reporter that the Windsors were “not a racist family at all”, while his late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, said witheringly that “memories may vary”.

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Craig Prescott, a constitutional expert at Bangor University in North Wales, told AFP that the “scale” and “ferocity” of the current royal split was unprecedented, but the royal family “would probably get away with it”.

He ruled out any move to strip Harry and Meghan’s royal titles, which would require political intervention and new legislation.

The Royal Family would likely view this as “pouring oil on the fire” at a time when they wanted to focus on Charles’ imminent coronation on May 6, he said.

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