Spare

[Sriram]

Hi everyone,

How come no one here has taken an interest in Harry's book 'Spare'? Here is a review...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64223264

Any views?

Sriram

[Gordon]

It would only interest me if there was a shortage of toilet rolls.

[ProfessorDavey]

Hi everyone,

How come no one here has taken an interest in Harry's book 'Spare'? Here is a review...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64223264

Any views?

Sriram

Perhaps because we don't have any interest in the royals.

I'm just glad we seem to have gone beyond peak media hysteria.

[Dicky Underpants]

Hi everyone,

How come no one here has taken an interest in Harry's book 'Spare'? Here is a review...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64223264

Any views?

Sriram

I have to say that my indifference to Prince Harry's book is - immeasurable.

[Anchorman]

It would only interest me if there was a shortage of toilet rolls.

   


'Cos I haven't got a wonky table which needs propping up.

[Spud]

   


'Cos I haven't got a wonky table which needs propping up.

I've got a wonky water butt, if that's any good?

[The Accountant, OBE, KC]

Hi everyone,

How come no one here has taken an interest in Harry's book 'Spare'? Here is a review...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64223264

Any views?

Sriram

Because Harry hasn't done anything particularly special or interesting plus apparently he has a patchy memory due to substance abuse to cope with his "traumatic" life so "recollections may vary".

What is there to say? That his one-sided accounts of private conversations about petty issues that could happen in ordinary families seems to be a money-spinner? 

My take on it since they decided to leave the RF has always been that they had carefully thought and planned out how to make his connections work for them. Team up, stay long enough to pretend to make a go of it so they have some material, and leave the Royal Family to make serious money without being controlled by Palace officials and protocol that would prevent Meghan and him saying what they want, doing the rounds on TV shows, writing books etc.

Surely no one was actually gullible enough to believe they left to have a quiet life away from the public eye? Meghan's extra melanin in her skin means she is on a slightly different money-spinner, but it won't work without Harry laying the groundwork to get publicity. If Meghan writes a book, I won't be interested. If Harry's kids grow up and write similar books about their parents and extended family to continue tapping the money-spinning opportunities, and if I'm still around, I won't be interested. If Meghan and Harry divorce and each write a book, I won't be interested. I didn't read the one-sided recollections of Harry's mother or father either.

I thought it was pretty funny when I heard that Harry's "poor little me" recollection was that he was told about the Queen Mother's death possibly by some anonymous courtier in a telephone call while at Eton, when in fact he was on a skiing holiday at an expensive resort with his family when he was told she had died. If that's true, he must have been smoking something at the time it happened or at the time he wrote the book to get that so wrong. 

[torridon]

It would only interest me if there was a shortage of toilet rolls.

 

[SteveH]

I'm not interested in any of the Royal family, and especially not the ginger whinger.

[ProfessorDavey]

I thought it was pretty funny when I heard that Harry's "poor little me" recollection was that he was told about the Queen Mother's death possibly by some anonymous courtier in a telephone call while at Eton, when in fact he was on a skiing holiday at an expensive resort with his family when he was told she had died. If that's true, he must have been smoking something at the time it happened or at the time he wrote the book to get that so wrong.

You do seem to be unexpectedly interested in (and knowledgable of) one sided recollections for someone who claims not to be interested in ... err ... one sided recollections.

You currently seem to be in a minority of one on this thread in clearly being invested in the whole thing. I think for the rest of us the response is more akin to - "yeh whatever, plague on all their houses".

I'm just glad that the media seem to be moving beyond such completely irrelevant stuff - not as if there isn't enough important stuff going on, you know the stuff that actually affects the lives of ordinary people.

[Udayana]

You do seem to be unexpectedly interested in (and knowledgable of) one sided recollections for someone who claims not to be interested in ... err ... one sided recollections.

You currently seem to be in a minority of one on this thread in clearly being invested in the whole thing. I think for the rest of us the response is more akin to - "yeh whatever, plague on all their houses".

I'm just glad that the media seem to be moving beyond such completely irrelevant stuff - not as if there isn't enough important stuff going on, you know the stuff that actually affects the lives of ordinary people.

hmm ... but isn't the apparently endless discussion of this in the media actually an attempt to avoid the stuff that affects people's lives - as that becomes too awful to think about?

[Nearly Sane]

hmm ... but isn't the apparently endless discussion of this in the media actually an attempt to avoid the stuff that affects people's lives - as that becomes too awful to think about?

Panem et circenses but for many just now just the circenses

[Maeght]

Hi everyone,

How come no one here has taken an interest in Harry's book 'Spare'? Here is a review...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64223264

Any views?

Sriram

Have no interest in it at all.

[The Accountant, OBE, KC]

You do seem to be unexpectedly interested in (and knowledgable of) one sided recollections for someone who claims not to be interested in ... err ... one sided recollections.

You seem to be having difficulty comprehending what I wrote. I said I wasn't interested in reading books by members of the RF. I didn't say I switch off the radio when the contents of such books are discussed on LBC when I'm in the car.  Bit difficult not to hear about it. But I don't know if the story is true as it's just what I have heard on the radio - I haven't read the book nor do I know where Harry was when the Queen Mother died.

I was interested in responding to the OP (now Sriram has started a thread) because he seemed interested in getting a perspective from his fellow-posters in the UK, which is probably a different perspective from what is being discussed where he is in India.

Plus I'm interested in responding to the OP because of the previous threads on this topic that I was involved in from 2020, where I said I thought they had planned to leave to make money from their brand/ royal connections without being controlled by or having to answer to the Firm. Just not interested in reading the actual book.   

You currently seem to be in a minority of one on this thread in clearly being invested in the whole thing. I think for the rest of us the response is more akin to - "yeh whatever, plague on all their houses".

I'm just glad that the media seem to be moving beyond such completely irrelevant stuff - not as if there isn't enough important stuff going on, you know the stuff that actually affects the lives of ordinary people.

I am definitely interested about whether the media succeed in their endeavours to whip the public up / manufacture a war of words / invent a crisis for the monarchy. I don't actually think there is a crisis for the monarchy. I am interested because the media do the same thing in politics - which IMO often makes it more difficult to reach consensus on difficult political issues.

[Sriram]

The book has set a record as the fastest selling non fiction book!

[Aruntraveller]

The book has set a record as the fastest selling non fiction book!

you say non-fiction......

[Sriram]

It seems that the staid British men (especially the RF) are attracted to the somewhat less inhibited American women. I could be wrong....

[Aruntraveller]

It seems that the staid British men (especially the RF) are attracted to the somewhat less inhibited American women. I could be wrong....

Generalise much do you?

[ProfessorDavey]

The book has set a record as the fastest selling non fiction book!

And the best self fiction series is Harry Potter.

And best selling single of 2022 was by Harry Styles.

Apparently Harry Kane is convinced that his memoir will top the best seller list

[jeremyp]

I have no interest in anything Prince Harry says or does. I don't care about the machinations of the Royal Family either as long as the King turns up to open parliament, picks the correct prime minister and signs the bills that have been passed into law.

[Nearly Sane]

That's Harry done for now

[The Accountant, OBE, KC]

Seems the Americans also don't want to hear the endless list of petty complaints.

https://www.newsweek.com/more-prince-harry-meghan-markle-say-less-americans-like-them-poll-1774617