- Prince Harry’s memoir Spare will be released on January 10.
- Book is a play on the term “The Heir and Spare” used to describe Prince William.
- Author Omid Scobie has asserted that the prince wanted the book to be called Spare.
According to a biography, Prince Harry chose the contentious title for his forthcoming memoir and hasn’t changed a thing since the Queen passed away.
The widely awaited memoir’s title, Spare, a play on the term “The Heir and Spare,” which was used to characterize Harry and his older brother Prince William, will be released on January 10.
Spare has been praised by its publisher for having “raw, unflinching honesty,” and royal insiders have called the title “confrontational.”
And now Omid Scobie, a close friend of Harry and Meghan Markle who wrote their unofficial biography Finding Freedom, has asserted that the prince wanted the book to be called Spare.
Omid said in a blog he penned for Yahoo: “Of course, calling the book Spare – a decision made by Prince Harry early on in the process – shouldn’t have come as a huge surprise. It’s a punchy choice, but for a word that has trailed the prince like a shadow, being the spare was one of the most defining aspects of his royal existence.
“Leaning on the derogatory moniker for a title is Harry finally owning the term after a lifetime of being called it.”
Added him: “There were also no last-minute rewrites or edits after the Queen’s death. Spare’s manuscript was completed almost five months before the monarch’s passing, a detail that will be acknowledged in a note at the start of the book.
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