I'll save the archived article in the Wiki under Spare.Have we seen this? apols if already posted
Response to the Moehringer piece by Hilary Rose in the Times:
So now we know. If we are to believe Prince Harry’s ghostwriter, JR Moehringer, the five-year ginger whinge fest is because people thought he was a bit thick and his mum died. So to be clear, the Oprah interview, the hours of Netflix, the 400-page book, the endless swipes and grotesque indiscretions and freelance royal nonsense, it isn’t about making millions and building Brand Harry. It definitely isn’t because he’s one of those people who want to have the last word, all the time, everywhere. It isn’t because he’s spent too much time staring at his navel while the rest of us go to work. No, the whinge fest was because people “belittled his intellectual capabilities” and his mum died. Thirty years and living happily ever after in California evidently isn’t enough to get over it and move on.
Moehringer's account in The New Yorker of how he tackled the writing of Spare gives us an insight into quite how tedious it would have been if Harry had written it himself. This is a grown man whose specialist subject is apparently Moana “and his favourite scene is when Heihei the silly chicken gets lost at sea”. What Harry wants isn’t to tell the truth, as Moehringer claims, it’s revenge. Think about it: slagging off his family is a funny way of proving how clever he is and it definitely won’t bring his mum back.
“Even at the most peripheral moments of his life, his central tragedy intrudes,” Moehringer writes about Diana’s death. Harry wanted Spare to be “a rebuttal to every lie ever published about him . . . he dreams of endless retractions”. For the love of God, man, don’t read it! Lots of people have grim childhoods with divorced or dead parents. Very few of them have the privileges Harry had.
And besides, he doesn’t want to rebut all the “lies”. He wants to edit out his own lack of judgment in playing strip billiards with strangers in Vegas, or wearing a Nazi uniform to a fancy dress party. Spare, Moehringer writes, was “Harry’s comeback” but he at first “wasn’t sure how much he wanted to say”. He seems to have got over that pretty well. There were tears in his eyes at the publication party, apparently because it felt incredible to have the “truth” out there. There were probably tears in his father’s eyes as well, and his grandmother would have turned in her grave, but hey-ho, eh?
“The way he’d been treated by both strangers and intimates was grotesque,” Moehringer writes, but Harry’s self-obsession is epic. We’ve all been let down and traduced. That’s life. He’s also being a tad disingenuous when he adds that a memoir is “a particular series of events chosen because they have the greatest resonance for the widest range of people”. Come on. Not many people will resonate with being thumped by a prince in a palace and smashing a dog bowl.
But what I find odd is this. Harry goes on and on about the living hell that is being royal, the sheer unrelenting intolerable awfulness of it, but William and Kate seem to live very nice lives. By and large, nobody bothers them when they’re not on duty. Contrary to what Meghan once claimed, there are no banks of paparazzi waiting in the bushes of rural Berkshire to ambush them on their way to school every day. They brush up well for high days and holidays, then they go back to normal life. They spent the weekend in robes and jewels and on Tuesday they took the kids to school. They stand on the touchline at sports matches. They go on nice holidays. They dress up for film premieres and wear jewels and tiaras but, for the most part, they spend their days bringing up their children and doing interesting things with interesting people, talking about subjects that interest them.
“Telling is how we cement details, preserve continuity, stay sane,” Moehringer writes, defending Harry’s score-settling. Oh, please. No, it is not. Most of us don’t have a publishing deal or a slot with Oprah, or a streaming giant paying to “tell our story” and “stay sane”. For most of us, cracking on is how we do it. You should try it, Harry. You might like it. But it won’t sell many books, so I guess you won’t.
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I'll save the archived article in the Wiki under Spare.
His wife is an heiress so doubt money would be a motivating factor....at least not in an amount that Ginge and Cringe could pay.
Harry & Meghan #345 no hair, no longer a Spare, wagh wagh waaagh life’s not fair
I can't keep up! Just a couple of my thoughts that I'm sure have already been shared.
I'm so disappointed with Dior... not to be dramatic but I honestly am devastated. They are one of my favourite French fashion houses
I wonder did H&M approach Dior maybe because of Diana's connection to them - mother wore it, they even named a bag after her - so now son is following in her footsteps? They always like to have these tenuous connections to grasp onto. Yet Dior have always been connected to the Royal Family, Christian Dior himself loved the UK and the Royal Family, unlike some cretins we know. So why wear a brand that has a historical royal connection if you no longer want to be connected to royalty..? How very odd.
Meghan in her Diana pose during the hike, looking very thin has me wondering - is she going to claim Diana's eating disorder story for her own at some point? The eating disorder caused by her unhappiness in her marriage, wouldn't you know, just like Diana...
I'm so disappointed with Dior... not to be dramatic but I honestly am devastated. They are one of my favourite French fashion houses
I wonder did H&M approach Dior maybe because of Diana's connection to them - mother wore it, they even named a bag after her - so now son is following in her footsteps? They always like to have these tenuous connections to grasp onto. Yet Dior have always been connected to the Royal Family, Christian Dior himself loved the UK and the Royal Family, unlike some cretins we know. So why wear a brand that has a historical royal connection if you no longer want to be connected to royalty..? How very odd.Meghan in her Diana pose during the hike, looking very thin has me wondering - is she going to claim Diana's eating disorder story for her own at some point? The eating disorder caused by her unhappiness in her marriage, wouldn't you know, just like Diana...
Scabies...moral objections??
So per the ghostwriter a motivation for Harry was to demonstrate that he really wasn’t a “thicko”. So he didn’t excel academically? Who cares. There are various types of intelligence. I am 42. Meghan is 41. Like her, I am not British but English is our mother tongue. I was 16 when Diana died. Even before that I knew who Diana was. She was one of the most famous people in the world and it wasn’t a stretch to at least have a surface level brief about her. Married/Divorced from Charles. Two kids. William and Harry. Her death was a seismic event. I watched the funeral and the coverage. My argument here is that Meghan, particularly since she was active and involved in the world of celebrity, would have known who Diana was and subsequently who Harry was. Now assuming Meghan really told Harry that she genuinely didn’t know who he was and he couldn’t apply the above logic and conclude that she was talking utter shite then he really is a thicko. As if she wasn’t forensically researching him the second she got a sniff of a chance with him. When she met the Queen she thought Prince Andrew was a servant in the Palace. Harrys reaction? Oh she definitely didn’t Google us. Thicko Status: Confirmed…
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Bib: This is why she can't be a real princess. No compassion for our eyes.
Priyanka is no less a chancer. But she is far more savvy than Smegs. Had Smegs been more successful or had the potential to get more/do more, Priyanka would have stuck with her, even if it were an air-kisses abound sort of friendship. Plus it's risky being associated with Her Unroyal Smegness - five friends?
It must have really stuck in Smegsy's craw that someone dropped her (which is most likely what happened), and is doing so much better in her own right rather than just being her husband's Mrs. Probably didn't look her and her career in India up before befriending her, just like she knew nothing about the BRF. Doesn't know how to use a search engine
He always looked like a scrawny rodent-y brat. His childhood photos give me the creeps. Not that the pics now are any better.
This is really stupid and dangerous - is he really that clueless and so far up the Harkles arse that he thinks that he wont be challenged? Morgan will rip him to shreds
Is he then going to back track to say its what he 'felt' he heard - a bit like TW claiming to be an only child being how she 'felt' rather than being factual?
I would not want to be in his shoes right now if he is lying to the court - Does he really think that the Harkles wont throw him under the bus to save their skin?
ETA: and of course how convenient of all people to 'overhear' this conversation it had to be scoobie doo
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So of all the people that could have been in The Room Where It Happened regarding phone "hacking", all those years ago. And suddenly it's revealed to be Scobiecunt?
WHAT ARE THE CHANCES
WHAT ARE THE CHANCES
I didn’t see it before but in these photos I definitely see the resemblance now, the mouths are identical.
You can't bear any weight backward and essentially need to walk on the toes and balls of your feet. Impossible with bunions I'm sure. It's like ballet Pointe shoes and that balancing act. Ouch!
And to think, all this pain and bitterness could have been avoided if Harry had have talked to his father and brother.
I mean really talked.Sat them both down told them how resentful he felt, told of his unhappiness with their relationship and stressed that he couldn’t and wouldn’t cope with it any more.And that he was desperate.
I bet Charles And William would have bent over backwards to help.Because they genuinely love him. I know he was seeing therapists, but he never addressed the issue of his hatred and resentment of the role he played in the family.
Instead he hid most of his bile and played the lovable mischievous Prince.
Except when he didn’t, and then the Palace Pr stepped in.
MM may be a piece of work, but I blame Harry.He has revealed himself to be a spiteful,jealous little knob head.And he loves the chaos he has created.
Forget all that owning his truth woke nonsense, he wants to punish his family.And he was gleeful about it.There was an interview with an American host ( who he was doing shots with), and you could tell that H was really enjoying the attention.
It was at this point, when he was happily trashing and ridiculing his country, that I decided I would not shed a tear if, and when MM destroys him.
I mean really talked.Sat them both down told them how resentful he felt, told of his unhappiness with their relationship and stressed that he couldn’t and wouldn’t cope with it any more.And that he was desperate.
I bet Charles And William would have bent over backwards to help.Because they genuinely love him. I know he was seeing therapists, but he never addressed the issue of his hatred and resentment of the role he played in the family.
Instead he hid most of his bile and played the lovable mischievous Prince.
Except when he didn’t, and then the Palace Pr stepped in.
MM may be a piece of work, but I blame Harry.He has revealed himself to be a spiteful,jealous little knob head.And he loves the chaos he has created.
Forget all that owning his truth woke nonsense, he wants to punish his family.And he was gleeful about it.There was an interview with an American host ( who he was doing shots with), and you could tell that H was really enjoying the attention.
It was at this point, when he was happily trashing and ridiculing his country, that I decided I would not shed a tear if, and when MM destroys him.
I'm literally just heading off to actual Lidl.....for a chicken....
ls it too much to ask that I might get to see, hear something similar..... 
Only very recently I saw it trotted out again, Harry had to walk behind the coffin. In fact what was said was, nobody else has had to walk behind a coffin in those circumstances. (I ranted about it on a previous thread).
WTAF. William was right there, I don't care how much taller he was. He walked behind that coffin too, containing his beloved mother. Aaaargh, that narrative makes me angry.
It was said that William didn't want to walk but that Philip asked him if he walked with him, would he do it and he did.
And if memory serves me head Harry even made a story out of Charles taking his hand maybe as they were inspecting the floral wreaths, and how he heard the cameras clicking. What an absolute lowlife scumbag he is.
"mad tech skills"
(to be fair, as far as I know, the whole phone "hacking" thing was not so much "hacking", but "figuring out easily guessed voicemail pins")
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