The former royals, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, have been maintaining a significant buzz by releasing content through various media. The couple has been on a spree narrating the account of their disturbing experiences with the Royal Family. The two stepped back from their royal duties in 2020 and have since shifted to the USA. In the US, Harry and Meghan signed multiple deals, including those with Spotify and Netflix.
However, one of the ground-breaking pieces was Prince Harry’s memoir, ‘Spare.’ Harry released the book in January 2023, which created a significant rift between the Royal Family and the couple. He revealed intimate and bombshell confessions from his life relating to himself and his family members. Harry chronicled his time in the military as well. One such instance in the book is when he boasts about killing Taliban members. Now, an anti-war artist, Andrei Molodkin, has created blood-covered copies of the book to send a message.
Andrei Molodkin Will Release Blood-Soaked Copies Of ‘Spare’ By Prince Harry
The anti-war artist, Andrei Molodkin, has been actively working on political art. Molodkin has widely used crude oil and created alphabetical molds creating political terminologies to depict the fractured political system in the world. Now, as part of new project titled ‘Blood Money,’ Andrei is making another statement by displaying a blood-soaked copy of Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’ at the St. Paul Cathedral. The statement comes after Harry projects his valor in the memoir, mentioning the killing of 25 Taliban members.
Andrei used blood donated by Afghan people to smear the copies of the book. He will sell them in London for $10,000. Molodkin said, “Prince Harry boasts of killing Taliban like they’re baddies in a video game, ‘otherising’ human life then cashing in on the sorry tale to sell books about his drug binging, sexual exploits, and killing conquests.” Prince Harry was heavily criticized by many veterans for his remark.
The Royal Family is still recovering from the shock that Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’ was! The intimate details affected his relationship with his family, but some instances attracted public condemnation. One of them was about killing 25 Taliban soldiers and boasting about his feat. He dehumanized them, calling them “chess pieces.” Harry wrote, “While in the heat and fog of combat, I didn’t think of those 25 as people. You can’t kill people if you think of them as people. You can’t really harm people if you think of them as people.”
He continued, “They were chess pieces removed from the board, Bads taken away before they could kill Goods.”
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How The Former Royal Defended His Statement
When the excerpt from the book was made public, Prince Harry came under a lot of fire for his statement. The Taliban and the Afghan government, as well as many army veterans, reacted to his apparent braggadocio.
Army veteran Tim Collins, during an interview, condemned his statement, saying, “We don’t do notches on the rifle butt.” The Taliban accused him of committing war crimes. One of the officials in the Afghanistan government criticized him for calling the insurgents “cheese pieces.”
Prince Harry opened up about the volatile reaction to his statement on the Stephen Colbert show. During the interview, he expressed discontent about the supposed leak of some chapters from the book. About the Taliban statement, he said that the media stripped out the context.
Harry stated, “Without a doubt, the most dangerous lie that they have told is that I somehow boasted about the number of people I killed in Afghanistan. If I heard anyone boasting about that kind of thing, I would be angry. But it’s a lie.” He said that his only intention to reveal those details is to reduce veteran suicides.
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