‼️ Spare by Prince Harry‼️

 66/∞

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5 out of 5)  (highly recommended read)

📚 Length: 416 pages

🔊Audiobook: 15 hrs and 37 min

Why you should read this book?

💡To see that being born with silver spoon does not mean you are going to be 'happy'

💡Sheds a bit of light on how fucked up the relationships in the Royal family are. 

💡To see how members of the royal family compete for the positive 'press coverage.'

The reason I decided to pick this book up, was Gábor Maté. He spoke nicely about Prince Harry and said that many things which happened in his life were not right and could be even labeled as traumatising. I lived in Britain. I even spotted back then the Queen for about 3 times. Once in London, once in Cardiff and the third time, I do not remember. Anyway, while living in the UK I perceived the royal family as some posh people living in the parallel universe which is not accessible to 'commoners.’ When Prince Harry first came up with his book I thought: How can you regret someone who was born rich. That person even dares to complain? 

But, because I listen to Gábor Maté, I realised that it would be wise to listen to Harry’s story. After all, not all what glitters is gold. It turned out I was right and now I can see that to live as a member of Royal family is no walk in the park. I would not be ashamed to call it even an emotional GULAG. Based on Harry’s stories, the members of royal family compete among each other for the front covers in press, who is going to do the biggest event to support people / animals /veterans and so on.

Since we are talking about Harry, I also would like to read the book written by Princess Diana (Harry’s mother). It seems to me that she must have suffered an immense abuse from the royal family. I also it was highly unfair from the queen to demand Charles (now the King) to marry someone who he did not love. 

Here are my thoughts on this book:

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I started to read this book before I left for Dublin, Ireland (now nearly 2 years back). I read about half through it and then stopped. So my knowledge of the first part of the book is a bit vague as a lot of shit had happen between now and then. I had to serve a term in Irish GULAG almost as it was not enough I have done 2 years in Wales roughly 10 years ago. Anyway, I digressed a little bit, but life took on and there was no time for reading…

What impressed me on the first half of the book was Harry’s childhood. He was not brought up by his parents but by boarding schools. In the UK this weird tradition is somehow a standard. They even still have school only for girls and boys, although mixed schools are quite common now. Same applies to Ireland. Anyway, I feel it is weird to separate the children so early in their live from their parents and send them to heartless institution called the boarding school. Prince Harry and even his brother William went through it all.
What also impressed me (not in the positive way), was how Harry was told by Charles that his mother (Diana) has died. He was told separately from his brother, which I find weird. Come on, am I the only one who thinks it tis weird?
Next thing I remember is that Harry was quite lounging for the physical touch as a child, but such things do not fall among the standard behaviour of the royals.
No, you would be wondering, why the hell is the book called ’SPARE’? Well, because William is an 'heir' and Harry is the 'spare.' One would say, it is good enough, but

Serving in the British Army

Harry went on to serve in Afghanistan and to shoot some Taliban members. I found this part of the book as the most boring one. Obviously, for Harry it was not as boring as it might seem to readers like be, because he was actually risking his own life on regular occasion.

The truth is, although it was an excellent PR for the Palace (the UK was fight a war it got dragged into by David Cameron and the public wasn’t very happy about it - I mean who would be), the Army struggled to provide prince Harry security and I think they were shitting their pants that Harry won’t get killed.

Meeting Meghan Markle

Honestly, I enjoyed this part of the book the most. It is a proper love story of two people who have fallen in love. In case of Harry, you can say: finally. But the love came with difficulties, more precisely with the legacy of Princess Diana (Harry’s mother). They both soon got followed by the press and the press worked tirelessly on the destruction of their life.

Meeting Kate and William

Kate and William initially liked Meghan, after all, she was a film star of Suits. But the press started to stirrup a fictional competition between Kate and Meghan. They did not bear that well and eventually started to argue. William then attacked Harry and told him Meghan is 'too difficult' of a wife to have.

The bee, the wasp and the fly 

Harry sought an advice in the Palace. He refers to the 3 devoted servants of the Queen as the bee, the wasp and the fly. What happened here is quite interesting. All three of these 'insects' were playing their own games. Harry asked them for help: to plant some positive stories about him and Meghan. The insects said they would help, although, he has never heard about them again.

The entire arguments and the mental abuse in the Royal family peaks when Meghan cannot bear it anymore. She is permanently under loads of pressure and she loses child she is bearing. I think that by this time both the Royal family and Harry have had enough and it was about time to make a leap and escape the chains of the Palace.

RIP Queen

The book ends at the point of Queen’s death. Harry swears he is still devoted to the Crown, but nobody cares. Harry and Meghan name their newborn daughter 'Lillibeth’ which is the diminutive Queen Elizabeth II. was called by her closest.

Kaiser’s Verdict: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5 out of 5)  (highly recommended read)

This book was absolutely shocking! Overall, I do admit there were some, ehm, 'boring’ parts like Harry fighting in Afghanistan, but it was always well worth it to carry on and see what happens next.

If you want to hear my honest opinion: the royal family is well fucked up. They are like birds living in a gilded cage, but it does not spare them of acting like humans, making mistakes and fucking up the relationships inside of the cage.

Based on this book, I have decided to read Diana: Her True Story by Andrew Morton. Harry’s deceased mother is a repeated motif in this book and I defo want to know more about her.

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