Prince Harry’s Spare Review

Finished reading Prince Harry’s Spare.

Not an ‘un-putdown-able’ book. I did not read a word over the weekend. 

The last part was tough - moan, moan and bemoan. 

I bought the book only because I had received the whole book (as soon as it released) as a PDF file and on starting to read it, the pangs of guilt hit hard. 

Royalty was at stake. Pun intended.

Then I started reading the first onslaught of reviews.

Everything from the book cover photograph to his private parts and loss of virginity (just one sentence in the 416 page long book!) was discussed.

Sounded like Harry was too ‘open’. Or was he a child denied?

He lost his mother while very young, he has no right over the throne, he is a spare and he is a perfect soft target.

You do know soft targets. They are the ones who cannot react much and even if they do, their reaction causes no damage and can be laughed upon as mere antics.

Like caged animals.

What did I feel after reading the book?

If whatever he has written is true…monarchy is just a rich extended joint family…a typical Indian TV saas-bahu soap opera with English speakers. 

And the villains are the press.

Anyway, I particularly hated how he tried to draw parallels between Princess Diana and himself early in the book. Disgusting psychological ploy to set the tone, but she is his mother.

But trying to the same trick with Meghan… Really?

By the way, their romance… as much as I am happy for them to have found love, to still believe she has not googled him or his family is atrocious! (Oldest trick in the book, honey!)

The newspapers and gossip columnists have had field day(s) and it is the complete fear from the side of British royalty that has made life hell for Haz & later Meg. 

Silence is not always ‘dignity’.

The papers dared not write about Camilla or Kate as they were/are the next in line to throne, but the ‘spare and his wife’ can be bullied. It did not help that she was an actress and had ‘black’ blood in her.

The royals too come across as petty and I somehow do believe that Camilla is capable of feeding the press with juicy details in exchange to showing herself and Charles in good light.

Williams - Kate seem to be following their predecessors footsteps.

And to think they are soon to be crowned!

Anyway, the book reminded me of the proverb - വീട്ടുക്ക് വീട് വാസപ്പടി …every household - royal or otherwise has a threshold and inside is plenty of dirty laundry.

If the royal household had not kept so quiet and put a leash on the press dogs as soon as they started barring their teeth (or at least after Diana’s death) then this book would not have happened.

Harry really has washed the dirty laundry in murky swirling waters.

What else to expect?

Karma is a bitch.

For all the atrocities committed on India & other common wealth countries, the future generations  of the British ruling empire will suffer.

J.R. Moehringer, has kept the book easy to read.