The nine biggest bombshells from Prince Harry’s Spare as today marks huge milestone

When Prince Harry’s bombshell memoir, Spare, was released in hardback on January 10, 2023, it was met with fanfare and anticipation from royal fans and readers waiting to hear his personal account of life as a royal. with more than 700,000 copies sold, meaning it outsold the second entry in the list by around 180,000 copies, according to data by The Bookseller.The paperback edition was released on October 24 last year, but no change was made to the text published in January the previous year. The Duke of Sussex, who quit life as a senior royal in 2020 along with his wife , detailed life as a working royal and his relationship with members of the Firm within the pages of his memoir.On the second anniversary, Express.co.uk looks back at the nine biggest bombshell claims in Harry’s book, Spare.

Prince Harry’s physical fight with Prince William

Perhaps one of the biggest bombshells of Spare, was when accused of hurting him during a row about while in Nottingham Cottage.The Duke of Sussex claimed his brother called Meghan “rude”, “difficult” and “abrasive”, which he told William was a “parrot[ing of] the press narrative”., ripped his favourite necklace and knocked him to the floor, an altercation which left him with a cut on his back because he fell on a dog bowl.The Duke claimed: “I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.” has not commented publicly on the explosive allegations.

Prince Harry used drugs to ‘distract’ himself

that he struggled “to feel” and “to be different,” which led him to experiment with drugs.

He writes: “At someone’s house, during a hunting weekend, I was offered a line, and since then I had consumed some more.”The Duke didn’t enjoy the experience, saying, “It wasn’t very fun, and it didn’t make me feel especially happy as seemed to happen to the others, but it did make me feel different, and that was my main objective.”

Previously, the Duke of Sussex has described using drink and drugs to mask the pain he felt when his mother, died.

During the bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021, he said: “I was willing to drink. I was willing to take drugs. I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling.”

Prince Harry went discount clothes shopping

speculates that growing up as a royal was not always as glamorous as people made it out to be and , TK Maxx in Kensington, to buy his casual wear.He writes: “I was particularly fond of their once-a-year sale, when they’d be flush with items from Gap or J.Crew, items that had just gone out of season or were slightly damaged.”However, the retailer dismissed this in a brutal five-word statement and said: “We don’t actually do sales.”In a full statement, the retailer dismissed claims they hold an annual sale. They said: “Whilst we’re delighted is a big fan, we thought we should explain we don’t actually do sales. Instead, we offer great value, style, and savings all year round.”

Prince Harry disclosed information about his service in Afghanistan

In a very controversial move, the while serving in Afghanistan. In Spare, said he killed 25 enemy fighters. He wrote: “It wasn’t a statistic that filled me with pride but nor did it make me ashamed.

“When I was plunged into the heat and confusion of battle, I didn’t think about those as 25 people. You can’t kill people if you see them as people. In truth, you can’t hurt people if you see them as people. They were chess pieces taken off the board, bad guys eliminated before they kill good guys. They trained me to ‘other’ them and they trained me well.”The prince has been criticised for discussing killings, with some military figures saying it was wrong to refer to the dead as “chess pieces”.

But on US TV show ‘The Late Show’, Harry accused the press of taking his words out of context and said the spin endangered his family. He also defended his remarks, saying he had wanted to reduce veteran suicide.

Prince Harry detailed the last time he spoke to his mum, Princess Diana.

recalls the last conversation he had with his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, citing a phone conversation they had the .He writes: “She’d called early in the evening, the night of the crash, but I was running around with Willy and my cousins and didn’t want to stop playing.”Harry describes how he was “impatient” and wanted to get back to his games, and had rushed the call with his mum because of it.”I wished I’d searched for the words to describe how much I loved her,” he writes. “I didn’t know that search would take decades.”

William and Harry tried to stop King Charles marrying Camilla

Harry alleged that both he and William tried to persuade his father not to marry the now Queen, Camilla.

wrote in the memoir: “Willy and I promised Pa that we’d welcome Camilla into the family. The only thing we asked in return was that he not marry her. You don’t need to remarry, we pleaded. A wedding would cause controversy. It would incite the press. It would make the whole country, the whole world, talk about Mummy, compare Mummy and Camilla, and nobody wanted that. Least of all Camilla.”

took place in a civil ceremony at Windsor Guildhall, on April, 9, 2005 – 35 years after the couple first met. The couple elected to have a civil marriage ceremony followed by a blessing at Windsor Castle instead of a church service.

William and Kate’s reaction to Harry’s Nazi costume

has put some of the blame for his to a party on his brother and his sister-in-law , claiming in the memoir they “howled with laughter” when they saw his bad taste outfit choice in 2005.However, The Duke of Sussex was lambasted when The Sun newspaper published a front page picture of him wearing the German Afrika Korps uniform outfit featuring a swastika on his left arm.

Shortly after the picture was published in the media, Harry issued an apology, saying: “I am very sorry if I have caused any offence or embarrassment to anyone. It was a poor choice of costume and I apologise.”

Harry expressed regret over the Nazi uniform gaffe in the third episode of the series Harry & Meghan. Speaking on the series he said it was “probably one of the biggest mistakes of my life”.

Prince Harry believed Diana faked her death

In the book, Harry writes that in the wake of his mother’s death, he found it difficult to grieve not only because he was numb, but also that he believed that Diana might have faked her own death to escape the constant hounding of the press.

“Her life’s been miserable, she’s been hounded, harassed, lied about, lied to. So she’s staged an accident as a diversion and run away,” he writes of his former mindset.

Harry says he shared the theory with William, who admitted that he had also entertained the idea, but dismissed it saying, “She’s gone, Harold. She’s not coming back.”

“I suppose I knew the truth deep in my heart,” Harry writes. “The illusion of Mummy hiding, preparing to return, was never so real that it could blot out reality entirely. But it blotted it out enough that I was able to postpone the bulk of my grief.”

The row between Princess Kate and Meghan

Harry claims that his wife Meghan upset Kate, who had recently given birth, during a phone call in the run up to the Sussexes’ wedding in 2018.

Recalling the conversation, Kate is said to have told Meghan: “We’re not close enough for you to talk about my hormones”.

Harry alleges that Meghan apologised but William “pointed a finger” at her, saying: “Well, it’s rude, Meghan. These things are not done here,” to which she responded: “If you don’t mind, keep your finger out of my face.”