Prince Harry has been at loggerheads with the Royal Family due to his accusatory behavior. Since he left the Royal Family in 2018, along with his wife Meghan Markle, Harry has been on a spree defaming the administration. He has been washing the family’s dirty linen in public revealing the struggles he and Meghan Markle faced. Recently, the Duke of Sussex released his explosive memoir, ‘Spare.’ In the book, he mentioned many intimate life details about his family, which included revelations about Kate Middleton, Prince William, and others.
In ‘Spare,’ Prince Harry talked about his childhood, processing Princess Diana’s death, and dealing with grief. It has not been a secret that the former royal experimented with drugs multiple times in his life due to the wide media coverage. In the book, he wrote about his purpose for experimenting with drugs like cocaine, ayahuasca, weed, and others. He also revealed the different reactions of the royals to the unwanted coverage of his drug problem.
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Prince William Was Sympathetic Toward Prince Harry’s Problems With Press
Prince Harry has been criticizing the media for divulging many of the intimate details of his life. The royal media was one of the reasons why Prince Harry stepped back from his royal duties.
However, while he was part of the Royal Family, the media scrutinized his drug problem, which did not sit well with his brother, Prince William. In Harry’s memoir, he revealed that Prince William was sympathetic toward the whole media hullabaloo.
Prince Harry wrote, “I phoned Willy. I couldn’t speak. He couldn’t either. He was sympathetic and more. At moments he was even angrier about the whole thing than I was because he was privy to more details about the spin doctor and the backroom dealings that had led to this public sacrifice of the Spare.”
However, Prince William told him that it is a part and parcel of life for being a royal. Harry continued, “And yet, in the same breath, he assured me that there was nothing to be done. This was Pa. This was Camilla. This was royal life. This was our life.”
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Harry’s Issues Served As Silver Lining For King Charles III And Camilla
In Chapter 33, Prince Harry wrote about how a tabloid editor called his father, King Charles III, to tell the story of Harry doing drugs. While talking to his mentor, Marko, Harry discussed whether the story was real or not.
After denying the claims, Harry asked Marko to tell the editor to kill the story. However, a few days later, Marko said that the editor was not ready to do so. So, the Duke suggested that his father can help do so. However, Marko said that the Palace is going ahead with the story. Harry wrote, “No, Marko said. Pa’s office had decided on a…different approach. Rather than telling the editor to call off the dogs, the Palace was opting to play ball with her. They were going full Neville Chamberlain.”
Harry continued, “I learned only later that the guiding force behind this putrid strategy was the same spin doctor Pa and Camilla had recently hired, the same spin doctor who’d leaked the details of our private summits with Camilla? This spin doctor, Marko said, had decided that the best approach, in this case, would be to spin me—right under the bus.”
The Duke observed, “In one swoop this would appease the editor and also bolster the sagging reputation of Pa. Amid all this unpleasantness, all this extortion and gamesmanship, the spin doctor had discovered one silver lining, one shiny consolation prize for Pa. No more the unfaithful husband, Pa would now be presented to the world as the harried single dad coping with a drug-addled child.”
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