Prince Harry ‘makes huge decision on Spare update that will relieve the Royal Family’
A paperback version of Prince Harry's controversial memoir Spare is set to be released later this month but it is reported that he's made a major decision when it comes to promoting the updated version
When Prince Harry first released Spare back almost two years ago, he embarked on a blitz of publicity.
The Duke of Sussex used the tell-all tome to make various claims about his family including that Prince William called his wife Meghan Markle ‘difficult’, ‘rude’ and ‘abrasive’ and pushed him into a dog bowl, that King Charles was jealous of the Prince and Princess of Wales and that Charles refused to allow Meghan to join her husband in Scotland as the late Queen was dying.
And then he gave several revealing interviews to go with it, including one with ITV’s Tom Bradby where he denied calling the Royal Family ‘racist’ in his infamous interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Later this year in October, a paperback version of Spare is due to be released. Usually, when a paperback version of a non-fiction book is released, additional chapters or updated information is included in the new format. However, the paperback version of Spare will not contain any new information. It will have the same cover image in a newly designed package, however, the “contents of the book are unchanged”.
And according to the Daily Mail, the Royal Family can breathe a sigh of relief as Harry does not plan to give any more interviews to promote the new paperback edition. A friend of his told the publication: “The paperback was a part of the book deal he signed, but he is not contractually obliged to promote this edition. The reason it has taken longer than usual for the paperback to be published is that the more expensive hardback was still selling well.”
It comes as many had questions about whether Harry would offer up more bombshells in an updated version of Spare given so much has happened since the book was published in early 2023. Since then both Charles and Kate have received cancer diagnoses, while Harry’s children Archie and Lilibet have both been given prince and princess titles. The paperback version will be released on October 22 in the United States and October 24 in the UK.
Since the release of Spare, things seem to have gone from bad to worse for relations between Harry and his father and older brother. When it comes to Harry and William, their feud, brewing before the book was released, has become even more frosty. According to The Sunday Times, it is understood the brothers last spoke at their grandmother the late Queen’s funeral in September 2022 – and even then, according to Harry’s memoir, they “barely exchanged a word”.
The publication reports that William is unlikely to forgive his younger brother any time soon for his digs against wife Kate in Spare with friends telling the newspaper as things stand, the Prince of Wales would not want Harry at his Coronation, whenever that time comes.
