Excerpts from the Duke of Sussex’s tell-all book have been leaked ahead of its publication.
Writing in his highly-anticipated memoir, Spare, which was accidentally released early in Spain, Harry has made some shocking claims.
The explosive memoir will officially be released on Tuesday, January 10, but here are some of the most alarming revelatons.
1. Harry claims William, now the Prince of Wales, physically attacked him
Harry writes: “(William) called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast. He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor.
“I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.”
2. Charles pleaded with William and Harry to stop fighting, at Windsor, after the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral
In a tense meeting after Philip’s funeral, a grieving Charles, now King, told his sons: “Please, boys. Don’t make my final years a misery.”
3. Harry claims William and Kate encouraged him to wear the Nazi uniform
Harry sparked outrage in 2005 when he wore a Nazi uniform complete with swastika armband to a fancy dress party.
But according to US website Page Six, he claims he phoned William and Kate to ask them whether he should chose a pilot’s uniform or a Nazi one for the fancy dress party, and William and Kate said the latter, and both howled with laughter when he went home and tried it on for them.
4. Meghan upset Kate over ‘baby brain’ comment
Harry claims that Meghan upset Kate, who had recently given birth, by telling her that she must have “baby brain”, during a phone call in the run up to the Sussexes’ wedding in 2018, according to the Sun.
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.”
5. Harry and William ‘begged’ Charles not to marry Camilla
Harry claims that he and William told Charles they would welcome the now-Queen Consort into the family on the condition he did not marry her, and “begged” him not to do so.
The Duke alleges that his father did not respond to their pleas.
6. Harry killed 25 people while serving as an Apache helicopter pilot in Afghanistan
The Telegraph, which obtained a Spanish language copy of the memoir from a bookshop in Spain, reported Harry said flying six missions during his second tour of duty on the front line resulted in “the taking of human lives” of which he was neither proud nor ashamed.
7. Harry reveals his use of cocaine
Harry said he had “taken cocaine” during a shooting weekend by the summer of 2002, when he was 17, and did “a few more lines” on other occasions, according to the Times.
He wrote that it was not “fun and it did not make me feel as happy as it seemed to make others but it did make
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