Spare

By: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex

Narrated by: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex

Brought to you by Penguin.

Sunday Times Memoir of the Year 2023

It was one of the images of the twentieth century: two boys, walking behind the coffin of their mother, Princess Diana. Billions wondered what the princes must be feeling - and how their lives would play out from that point on.

For Harry, this is that story at last.

Before then, Prince Harry was known as the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. But grief changed everything.

At twenty-one, he joined the Army but was soon more lost than ever, suffering from post-traumatic stress and crippling panic attacks. Above all, he couldn't find true love.

Then he met Meghan. The world was swept away by the couple's romance and wedding. But in the face of sustained press intrusion, Harry saw no other way to protect his wife and children than to flee his mother country. Over the centuries, leaving the Royal Family was an act few had dared. The last to try had been his mother. . .

Written with raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is full of insight, revelation and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.

'Compellingly artful... a blockbuster memoir' The New Yorker

'The most insightful royal book in a generation' Financial Times

'A rattling page-turner... As a personal insight into one boy's life in an extraordinary spotlight, it may never be better' Sunday Times

©2023 Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

Unflinching, introspective and well-written

The most insightful royal book in a generation

This is an extraordinary and important book

Richly detailed… beautifully written

Compellingly artful… [a] blockbuster memoir

A triumph

Honest, insightful and vulnerable

A fast-paces, quickfire account… the book crackles like a burning log

Media ethics & integrity must be addressed!!

Traumatic. Struck by how we as humans never learn from our mistakes or our history, and how for the sake of the Crown, a family will stand in silence at the destruction of another for the sake of self. Something must be done about the ethics in media reporting and general lack of journalistic integrity. Even reports on interviews with PH is distorted and misleading. I hope the Sussexes have a fleet of people keeping track on misleading and false reporting so that the entire sordid media bunch can be held accountable.

Beautiful beautiful my Prince of Hearts l

Totally beautiful every minute of it
the real story with lots of emotion honesty all from the heart. Prince Harry is my Prince of Hearts always.

The lows the highs and the in between

I enjoyed listening to Harry tell his story the way only he can love it

Riveting

Brilliantly narrated by Prince Harry himself. I did not want the book to end at all.

Beautifully written and narrated

Coming from Botswana Africa, I totally appreciate how he found solace in our haven. Beautifully written and totally unpretentious. Felt like I was transported to His world, a world so far removed from my own yet so relatable through his writings.