Prince Harry’s memoirs caused quite a stir even before they were published. British media have received sensational excerpts from this book, The Substitute, which will be published on January 10th. According to the Guardian, Harry mentions the difficulty of being “the replacement” throughout the book. In particular, among other shocking revelations, he says that on the day he was born, his father Charles said to his mother Diana, “Great! From now on you have given me an heir and a surrogate – mission accomplished.” Selected Plays.
A heated argument with William in 2019
According to excerpts from the book published by the Guardian, the Duke of Sussex specifically accuses his brother William of throwing him to the ground in 2019 in a dispute over Meghan, who Harry married the previous year. During the altercation, William reportedly called Meghan a “difficult” and “rude” woman before the tone between the two brothers rose and insults erupted.
William “grabbed my collar, ripped my collar off, and threw me on the ground,” Harry said. “I landed on the dog’s bowl, which broke under my back, the pieces cutting into me,” added the prince, saying he remained on the ground “dazed” before asking his brother to leave. William would then “apologize” while asking his brother not to talk about the altercation with Meghan, which Harry would have done anyway, telling that she wasn’t “so surprised or angry” but was “terribly sad”.
Buckingham Palace remained silent on this information, as it did on all of the allegations made in the thunderous Netflix docuseries about the Sussexes released last month: the couple blamed the royal family for failing to protect them and Harry blamed his brother for “yelling” at him 2020 in the presence of Elizabeth II.
The “ugly mother-in-law”, the Nazi costume and the defloration
According to the Chron, Harry also explains in his memoir that he was opposed to his father remarrying Camilla because he feared she would be an “ugly stepmother”.
Additionally, according to The Sun tabloid, Harry claims that William and his wife Kate encouraged him to dress up as a Nazi at a costume party when he was 20, sparking a scandal.
According to Sky News, he’s also recounting the “humiliating episode” of losing his virginity to an “elderly woman” who loved horses and treated him like a “young stallion” … and beat him up after he “quickly mounted” one Field behind a busy pub.
25 “Taliban” killed in Afghanistan
King Charles’ youngest son also reveals he killed 25 “enemy combatants” in Afghanistan, whom he regarded as “pieces in a chess game”. “It was my goal from day one never to go to bed doubting that I had done the right thing, that I had shot at the Taliban and only at the Taliban, with no civilians around,” he says in the book, according to the Daily Telegraph. In the age of Apache helicopters and computers, he knows “exactly how many enemy fighters” he’s killed. “And it seemed important to me not to be afraid of this number”, “25”, which gives him neither “satisfaction” nor “embarrassment”.
Inquiry into Diana’s death
Following the death of Lady Di in a car crash in Paris, Harry said he and his brother William found the investigation’s conclusions that the drunk driver was “the only cause of the accident” to be “simplistic and absurd,” according to Sky News Accident”. If the driver was “blinded” by the paparazzi, “why weren’t they in jail?” But “those who made the decision advised us not to” call for the reopening of the investigation, writes Harry.
contact with his mother
According to the Guardian, Prince Harry also reveals that on the advice of a friend, whom he doesn’t describe as a “medium”, he consulted a woman who allowed him to get in touch with his mother Diana. “I felt an energy around her,” he says, explaining that this woman told him “your mother is with you.” She explained that Diana told her that he was “living the life she couldn’t live”, that he was “living the life” that she wanted for him.
cocaine
According to Sky News, Harry also admits to using cocaine “of course” in his memoir. “I was offered a line at someone’s house during a hunting weekend and then accepted it again,” he wrote. “It wasn’t very funny, it didn’t make me particularly happy”, “but it made me feel different”. “I was a 17-year-old who wanted to try anything to challenge the established order.”
Charles jokes about Harry’s “real” father
Finally, according to Page Six of the New York Post, Harry recounts that one of the “best jokes” in his father, King Charles III’s “repertoire” was to say, “Who knows if I’m really the Prince of Wales?” Who know if I’m even your father? “He laughed and laughed, although it was a particularly unfunny joke considering the rumor going around at the time was that my real father was one of Mom’s former lovers: Major James Hewitt,” he says. According to him, one of the causes of this rumor was that the latter was red-haired, another was “sadism”.
Prince Harry’s TV interview was broadcast on TF1 on Monday
Prince Harry’s interview will be broadcast in France on Monday night by TF1, the day after British channel ITV broadcasts This interview will be broadcast at 11:10pm.
It was produced by Tom Bradby, journalist and presenter for the British broadcaster ITV, which will air it on Sunday evening. Before the release of his memoir, Prince Harry gave two interviews, one with ITV and the other with CBS in the United States, which also airs on Sunday.