You really have to wonder what Harry and Meghan, hunkered down in their Montecito wellness bunker, currently make of the reaction to Harry’s memoir Spare, which has been leaked to the world over the past few days. So far the book has made headlines for Prince Harry’s tales about losing his virginity in a field next to a pub (and being subsequently slapped on the rear by the older woman), his frostbitten penis, talking to a bin after taking magic mushrooms and a scrap with his brother that led to him falling on a dogbowl and breaking his favourite necklace.
Mr S gets the impression that this isn’t quite the dignified, progressive image of a rival King and Queen across the water that Meghan has been aiming for with her insufferable Archetypes podcast.
But what really stands out from the extracts published so far is how petulant the princeling comes across in his anecdotes, whether he’s complaining about the size of William’s bedroom as a child or blaming Will and Kate for him wearing a Nazi uniform to a fancy-dress party aged 20 (the poor prince was just following orders, apparently).
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