Actively listening to Prince Harry telling his side of the story is key - it is more than we had in Netflix's Harry and Meghan documentary, and the kind of revelations Oprah Winfrey would have loved to have teased out in her March 2021 interview with the couple - and he deserves to tell his story in full, not simply in selective headline excerpts. Fans will see it as 416 pages that give him the opportunity to tell his side of the story after 38 years of seeing it, in various versions, written for him in the British press.Įnter the audiobook: 15 hours and 39 minutes of Prince Harry reading Spare aloud, which provides an undeniable nuance.

Getty ImagesĬritics of the Duke of Sussex will read the book and see it as little more than self-indulgence, with little interest in the context of many of the most salacious stories. Prince William and Prince Harry's fractured relationship, from childhood to adulthood, is the focus of much of Spare. We also now know that he blames Prince William and his wife Kate for choosing his Nazi fancy dress costume and Harry’s side of the Meghan versus Kate fallout in the run-up to the wedding. We know about his drug use, how he felt about his now-stepmother Camilla, Queen Consort as a teen, how distant his father King Charles III was for much of his childhood and that he has had physical fights with his brother, Prince William as an adult.

For anyone who is now going to read Spare, there will be few surprises. Since the book was released early in Spain last week, the most explosive parts have been dissected, debated, disapproved of and dismissed.

Plenty has been written about Spare, the autobiography of Prince Harry, in recent weeks.

Spare review