{"id":179109,"date":"2023-01-06T19:18:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T19:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/prince-harrys-memoir-top-takeaways\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T19:18:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T19:18:08","slug":"prince-harrys-memoir-top-takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/prince-harrys-memoir-top-takeaways\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry’s memoir: Top Takeaways"},"content":{"rendered":"
British tabloids often reported on Harry’s party lifestyle in his younger days, but in ‘Spare’ he admits to taking illegal drugs.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course I had been taking cocaine at that time. At someone’s house, during a hunting weekend, I was offered a line, and since then I had consumed some more,” he writes.<\/p>\n
“It wasn’t very fun, and it didn’t make me feel especially happy as it seemed to happen to others, but it did make me feel different, and that was my main objective. To feel. To be different.”<\/p>\n
Harry goes as far as to say his drug use was an attempt to shake up the royal family. “I was a seventeen-year-old willing to try almost anything that would alter the pre-established order,” he said. “At least, that’s what I was trying to convince myself of.”<\/p>\n
Harry writes of the pain of his father marrying Camilla Parker Bowles, after his messy divorce from their mother, Princess Diana. <\/p>\n
“In spite of Willy and I begging him not to, my father proceeded with his plan. We shook him by the hand and wished him all the best without hard feelings,” he wrote. <\/p>\n
“We recognized that he was going to be with the woman he always loved, the woman that fate had in store for him from the beginning.”<\/p>\n
In comments that have already sparked outrage at home and abroad, Harry writes in detail about his tour of Afghanistan, where he piloted Apache helicopters in the southern Helmand province as part of the British Army Air Corps. <\/p>\n
He killed 25 enemy personnel, he writes. \u201cIt was not something that filled me with satisfaction, but I was not ashamed either,\u201d he says in the book.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost soldiers don’t know exactly how many kills they have to their credit. Under battle conditions, you often fire indiscriminately. However, in the age of Apaches and laptops, everything I did in the course of two tours of duty was recorded and time-stamped,\u201d Harry writes.<\/p>\n
His openness detailing his military experience drew criticism from some in the British media, while others \u2014 including senior Taliban leaders \u2014 also Harry’s reported description of the fighters he killed as \u201cchess pieces removed from the board.\u201d <\/p>\n
A section that has led headlines around the world centers on a meeting between the brothers at Harry and Meghan’s former home on the grounds of Kensington Palace in London, in 2019.<\/p>\n
There, Harry writes, William had complained about Meghan and called her \u201cdifficult,\u201d \u201crude\u201d and \u201cabrasive.\u201d<\/p>\n
The confrontation then escalated, the book recounts, with William eventually grabbing Harry by the collar and ripping his necklace before knocking him to the floor.<\/p>\n
\u201cI landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed,\u201d Harry writes. Harry says he then told his brother to leave, which he did after initially urging Harry to hit him back.<\/p>\n
William later returned and apologized, Harry writes in the explosive section that was first reported by The Guardian newspaper, though William suggested Harry not tell Meghan about the alleged altercation, according to news outlets. <\/p>\n
\u201c’You mean that you attacked me?’ Harry writes that he responded, according to the news outlets. \u201c’I didn’t attack you, Harold,’\u201d he reportedly recounts William calling back. <\/p>\n
Harry also refers to his brother in the book as his \u201carch-nemesis,\u201d according to a clip from a pre-recorded interview he did with ABC’s “Good Morning America.” <\/p>\n