Sunday Times Memoir of the Year 2023 It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth
century: two young boys two princes walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched
in sorrow-and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest billions wondered what Prince William
and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling-and how their lives would play out from that
point on. For Harry this is that story at last. Before losing his mother twelve-year-old
Prince Harry was known as the carefree one the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir.
Grief changed everything. He struggled at school struggled with anger with loneliness-and
because he blamed the press for his mother's death he struggled to accept life in the
spotlight. At twenty-one he joined the British Army. The discipline gave him structure and
two combat tours made him a hero at home. But he soon felt more lost than ever suffering from
post-traumatic stress and prone to crippling panic attacks. Above all he couldn't find true
love. Then he met Meghan. The world was swept away by the couple's cinematic romance and
rejoiced in their fairy-tale wedding. But from the beginning Harry and Meghan were preyed upon
by the press subjected to waves of abuse racism and lies. Watching his wife suffer their
safety and mental health at risk Harry saw no other way to prevent the tragedy of history
repeating itself but to flee his mother country. Over the centuries leaving the Royal Family
was an act few had dared. The last to try in fact had been his mother. . . . For the first
time Prince Harry tells his own story chronicling his journey with raw unflinching honesty.
A landmark publication Spare is full of insight revelation self-examination and hard-won
wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.