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Spare

by Prince Harry · Recommended by 13 people on 6 podcasts

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Why people recommend it

Spare by Prince Harry is a royal memoir detailing the life and perspectives of Prince Harry. Gilbert Cruz on The Book Review brought up the memoir as an audiobook he had been listening to and enjoying. Conversely, Megyn Kelly discussed the book across several episodes of The Megyn Kelly Show. She speculated that Prince Harry's book inspired Earl Spencer to write his own tell-all, and she mentioned the memoir while discussing the controversy surrounding William and Harry walking behind Diana's coffin. Kelly also noted that Prince Harry did not write the book himself, pointing out that it utilized a ghost author. Furthermore, she referenced the book when discussing his negative portrayal of Prince William, specifically noting his claim that William called Meghan difficult, rude, and abrasive during a 2019 argument, and she briefly questioned why Harry would want to send his children to Eton given how terribly he wrote about his time there in Spare. Dan Wootton also appeared on The Megyn Kelly Show to mention the autobiography while discussing a royal aide who recently quit, noting that Prince Harry had derided the aide in the book as the wasp. Finally, Megyn Kelly briefly referred to the autobiography again while discussing claims made about Princess Diana's death.

Who recommended it

Megyn Kelly — 18 mentions
Discussed
“Maybe he saw the success of Harry's book Spare and decided it might be an opportunity for him.”
Discussed
“Didn't Harry complain about it in spare? I think he wrote about it in an unfavorable way, like he didn't want to do it.”
Discussed
“Ultimately, he would have spare too, but he didn't write spare. that was written by the Agassy coowwriter u the Agassy ghost author”
Discussed
“I mean his in his book Spare, which is the only successful thing they've done, uh he alleged uh that during a 2019 argument over Megan, William called Megan difficult, rude, and abrasive”
Discussed
“You know, Harry wrote wrote wrote of his time there terribly in spare.”
Discussed
“He admitted that in spare, his autobiography.”
Discussed
“indeed because remember there's another aspect to the story which is that Prince Harry admitted in his book spare that at the sandram summit”
Discussed
“here's the thing I mean he spent past six months show in his Memoir spare and his interview telling us the royal family was responsible for all the terrible leaks about him”
Discussed
“they were holding on in America until the Netflix special and the book spare”
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“How did the Spare autobiography help Harry's approval rating?”
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“and yet now we've watched six hours of Netflix and we've read Prince Harry's Memoirs bear and there are no receipts”
Discussed
“and you know Harry in his book he referred he he talks very briefly about bullying”
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“Chelsea Handler speaks about them it's Prince Harry actually you knew you weren't going to get away with a show without it oh the critics the Critics Choice Awards um and there was a snub of the you know the king queen of Montecito from Chelsea Handler listen to that stop Dahmer became the third highest viewed Show on Netflix”
Discussed
“like that's the only part of the book I've read and hearing it in with him reading it I I couldn't with when he starts talking about Elizabeth uh Arden and the cream cream”
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“I've been dying to ask you about the Mary the Harry and Megan media tour the controversy with the royal family and in particular since you are a Brit um I needed you to explain what the hell we are listening to here in this excerpt from Prince Harry's book spare”
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“I needed you to explain what the hell we are listening to here in this excerpt from Prince Harry's book 770 spare”
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“As expected, this is from the book, chapter 73. The story depicted our departure as rollicking, carefree, hedonistic, tapping out rather than a careful retreat, an attempt at self-preservation. It also included the telling detail that we offered to relinquish our Sussex titles. There was only one document on Earth in which that detail was mentioned, my private and confidential”
Discussed
“spare right which is out this week comes hits stands officially tomorrow but of course the Press is poured over it”
Dan Wootton — 8 mentions
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“Maybe not a household name, but someone who Prince Harry derided in his autobiography Spare as as the Wasp. He described him as the Wasp.”
Discussed
“or if he's not taping them, just going to use it as fodder for his next book, Spare Too, or his next Netflix special or his next Spotify deal once the current spigot runs out.”
Discussed
“And what did he do? He went for Camila and Catherine in spare. And actually, he even released private WhatsApp messages between Meghan Markle and Catherine in the book”
Discussed
“Once Harry included all of those revelations in his autobiography spare including the physical fight between them, including the fact that Catherine had apparently been cold to Meghan right from the start of the relationship, that was it.”
Critiqued
“having purposefully avoid avoided all of the flat from Harry's awful hateful automography spare”
Discussed
“This is and again in spare, mate. It's never Harry's fault, ever.”
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“we've then got Harry's autobiography spare coming in the first week of January”
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“you know what that would involve having to pulp his autobiography which is coming up and is expected to slam the royal family if he's a decent guy that's what he will do”
Gilbert Cruz — 2 mentions
Discussed
“it started off with what is still one of the big book stories this year which was the publication of spare by Prince Harry”
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“I have been listening for maybe a month and a half to the Prince Harry Memoir read by him in audiobook form and it is like I know we had a first wave of coverage where there's a lot of ah this isn't that great”
Moren Callahan — 2 mentions
Discussed
“reportedly the one thing King Charles begged Harry not to do in spare was to go after Camila”
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“which is it because as we read in spare Megan was dying to become Kate Middleton's BFF”
Nile Gardner — 2 mentions
Discussed
“after all he admitted to widespread and extensive drug use in his Memoir spur a best-selling book on both sides of the Atlantic selling a huge number of copies and he taught some detail in spare about uh very extensive illegal drug use”
Discussed
“and in fact he has uh fact endorse the use of some kinds of of drugs actually for therapeutic uh reasons and so it's all there in his uh in his uh in his book and also in his uh interviews as well”
Mike Baker — 1 mention
Discussed
“he's put out this book uh spare or whatever it's called um yeah I guess everybody falls down one side or the other do you support Harry and Megan do you not you know here it is Royals set up a war room to discuss Prince Harry's memoir”
Jake Denton — 1 mention
Discussed
“and spare uh his book he talks about uh you know he does all these drugs and everything which obviously would implicate your ability to get a Visa”
Gareth Russell — 1 mention
Discussed
“before spare came out about one in3 u people said they would they would like to see Prince Harry back in public life that's not more like one in seven”
Gabor Mate — 1 mention
Discussed
“So Harry describes in his book Spare, that he's 12 years old when his mother's killed.”
Andrew Gold — 1 mention
Discussed
“I read his book spare um to spare you the the the the horror of having to read it yourself”
Leilani Dowding — 1 mention
Critiqued
“when you betray your family like that when you just write a book about them take you know the last words of your grandma and and what she's saying on the deathbed”
Mark Steyn — 1 mention
Discussed
“Harry's book is not the Harry's book is basically in large part a daddy dearest book to go back to the one that Joan Crawford Joan Crawford's son wrote right”
Sophie Corcoran — 1 mention
Critiqued
“I haven't read the book yet I've only seen his non-stop press tour and um one of them talks about how when Megan gave birth he sucked up all the Laughing Gas she had none available to her and he was like fall down sort of off because of all the Laughing Gas he took on the birth of his”

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Other mentions (9: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“Prince Harry's book. I remember I was like, I was a joke. I was on a plane and they had like, you know, the free audio books or whatever. And there was Prince. And I was so glad I didn't download anything I forgot to. So I get on there and I play it and I just skip to a”
Passing
“I actually feel my my year was not intentionally but by coincidentally book bookended by these huge this Prince Harry's spare and then Barbara strien”
Passing
“New York Times bestselling author of spare A Memoir of his life told with compassion vulnerability and unflinching honesty”
Passing
“you know it was very it was very Pro therapy in his recent book Prince Harry”
Passing
“but I bet it's going to be in spare Harry's Memoir”
Passing
“I'll bet you they're saving the the angry William text for his book spare which comes out just a few weeks after Christmas it's like a belated Christmas present”
Passing
“um because he's got his book coming out on January 10th the spare which seems provocative and like a poke”
Passing
“what is in Prince Harry's autobiography, and more.”