Prince Harry made a series of bombshell statements in his memoir (Image: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)
Prince Harry’s controversial memoir Spare is being re-released again today in paperback form.
The hardback version of the autobiography was released in January last year and sent shockwaves across the globe as the prince, 40, hurled accusations at the Royal Family through the pages of his bombshell tell-all book.
This saw the Duke of Sussex, who quit life as a senior royal in 2020 along with his wife Meghan Markle, suffer fractured relationships with his own family.
This includes with his brother Prince William, 42, who he is no longer believed to be on true speaking terms with.
As people around the world head to bookstores today to find a paperback version of the tell-all memoir, the Daily Express looks back at the seven biggest bombshells of Spare.
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Prince Harry’s accusation that William hurt him
One of the biggest bombshells in Spare is when Prince Harry accuses Prince William of hurting him. According to the duke, the brothers were at Kensington Palace in 2019 when the incident took place after a row about Harry’s wife Meghan.
Harry claimed his brother called Meghan “rude”, “difficult” and “abrasive”, which he told William was a “parrot[ing of] the press narrative”.
The duke then claimed William used physical force against him by grabbing him by the collar, “ripping” his necklace and knocking him to the floor.
He also claimed that the altercation left him with a cut on his back due to him falling on to a dog’s bowl and breaking it, something Meghan Markle spotted later that evening.
Prince William has never commented publicly on the explosive allegations.
The paperback version is being released today (Image: Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Idea that William and Kate supported his Nazi party outfit
Prince Harry said that his idea to wear a Nazi outfit to a party in 2005 was met with laughter from Prince William and Princess Kate.
In the memoir, Harry said he called the couple to ask them about the outfit. He wrote in the book: ““They both howled. Worse than Willy’s leotard outfit! Way more ridiculous! Which, again, was the point.”
William and Harry tried to stop King marrying Camilla
Another shocking revelation in Spare was Harry’s claim that both he and William tried to persuade their dad not to marry Camilla, the now Queen.
Prince Harry wrote in the memoir: “Willy and I promised Pa that we’d welcome Camilla into the family. The only thing we asked in return was that he not marry her. You don’t need to remarry, we pleaded. A wedding would cause controversy. It would incite the press. It would make the whole country, the whole world, talk about Mummy, compare Mummy and Camilla, and nobody wanted that. Least of all Camilla.”
The couple did get married in 2005 with Prince Harry and Prince William present.
The King and Queen Camilla married in 2005 (Image: Hugo Bernand/ROTA/Anwar Hussein Collection/Getty Images)
Prince Harry admits taking cocaine because he was ‘deeply unhappy’
Prince Harry also detailed in Spare about his drug use, which dates all the way back to his time at Eton College.
However, the duke also said he began taking cocaine when he was just 17. According to Newsweek, Harry wrote: “Of course…I had been doing cocaine around this time. At someone’s country house, during a shooting weekend, I’d been offered a line, and I’d done a few more since.
“It wasn’t much fun, and it didn’t make me particularly happy, as it seemed to make everyone around me, but it did make me feel different, and that was the main goal. Feel. Different.
“I was a deeply unhappy 17-year-old boy willing to try almost anything that would alter the status quo. That was what I told myself anyway.”
Prince Harry shared some information which put him at risk (Image: John Stillwell POOL/ Tim Graham Picture Library/Getty Images)
Duke revealed how many members of the Taliban he killed
In a very controversial move, the duke detailed how many Taliban fighters he killed. In Spare, Prince Harry said he killed 25 enemy fighters. He wrote: “It wasn’t a statistic that filled me with pride but nor did it make me ashamed.
“When I was plunged into the heat and confusion of battle, I didn’t think about those as 25 people. You can’t kill people if you see them as people. In truth, you can’t hurt people if you see them as people. They were chess pieces taken off the board, bad guys eliminated before they kill good guys. They trained me to ‘other’ them and they trained me well.”
Princess Kate accused of leaving Meghan crying ‘on the floor’
In Spare, Prince Harry was also quick to paint his sister-in-law in a bad light as he said Catherine, 42, upset Meghan to the point that she was crying on the floor.
The duke said that before his big wedding with Meghan, Kate and his fiancee at the time were arguing over bridesmaid dresses which Kate allegedly said were too big and baggy for Princess Charlotte.
She was then said to have demanded the dresses be “completely remade”. According to Harry, the whole interaction left Meghan upset and in tears.
Prince Harry suggests he and William were not always as close as people thought (Image: Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images)
Prince Harry and Prince William were not as close growing up as people believed
Royal fans across the globe always assumed Prince Harry and Prince William were close growing up, with the pair often spotted side by side at royal engagements and always with a smile on their faces. However, in Harry’s memoir Spare, it appears this was not always the case with the brothers, leaving royal fans disappointed.
Harry described William as being both his “beloved brother” and “arch nemesis”, with the pair often feeling as if they were in competition with each other. The duke also said that William was not welcoming to him when the young price moved into Eton College, the same school as his older sibling.
He said William “hated” the fact he and his brother were often seen as a “package deal”.
No members of the Royal Family have publicly responded to Prince Harry’s claims in his memoir.
