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The monarchy’s a laughing stock’: readers react to Prince Harry’s Spare

Views range from sympathy for the Sussexes in light of treatment by royals and tabloids, to regarding them as being ‘as entitled as the others’

An advert for Prince Harry’s book Spare in Windsor, England. Photograph: Maureen McLean/Rex/Shutterstock

Clea Skopeliti and Guardian readers

Fri 13 Jan 2023 12.09 GMT

Prince Harry’s tell-all autobiography has become the UK’s fastest-selling nonfiction book ever. The memoir has been controversial, with Harry making claims that Prince William physically attacked him and accusing his father of putting his own interests first.

The Guardian asked readers – some of whom had already begun reading the book – for their views on the memoir and the publicity around it. Many said their views on the royal family had been changed, while others said it strengthened existing positions. Other readers also made the point that the book was more balanced than had been presented by parts of the media.

Here, eight readers discuss how Spare has changed their opinions on the family rift – as well as the future of the royals as an institution.

‘I was raised a royalist but now see royal family as out of touch’

Jane Popplewell: ‘I viewed the late queen respectfully.’

I was brought up a royalist and really just accepted their role without much question. I viewed the late queen respectfully and admired what I saw as her sense of duty and public service.

However, I do now sympathise much more with Harry and consider the treatment of him and Meghan by much of the press to be reprehensible and negatively biased. I found the comments by Jeremy Clarkson absolutely repugnant – I complained to Ipso.

I thought that [Harry and Meghan’s] relationship might herald in a changing of times. I am now really leaning to a view that a hereditary monarchy is out of touch and stands for inequality of opportunity in our country. Jane Popplewell, 60, east Yorkshire, works in adult social care

‘Harry now seems as entitled as the others’

My view of the royal family was negative before – I don’t think the UK should be a monarchy. Before the recent publicity I was sympathetic to Harry and Meghan but now I am less so as I think he shows the same level of entitlement as the other Windsors. His remarks about Africa are patronising, and I don’t think the taxpayer should pay for his security while he is living in the US.

I feel sorry for Meghan and even Camilla, I think they get unfairly blamed for breaking up the family. Maybe because they are women and “outsiders”. The monarchy is becoming a laughing stock and I don’t see how it contributes to a positive image of the UK. Rachael, 34, Oxford, copywriter

‘It has humanised the royal family’

Habib Syed: ‘Prince Harry and Meghan’s mental health will only deteriorate further.’

The revelations in Harry’s book have humanised the royal family, demonstrating that even those amongst the highest realms of society are affected by family drama and mental health challenges.

I viewed them as perfect and prestigious before, but now that I think about it, they’re just a family with ordinary problems. We benefit by seeing a more realistic portrayal.

I’ve read most of the book - I think this is the first time William has had a stain on his reputation, but we haven’t heard his perspective. I fear that Prince Harry and Meghan’s mental health will only deteriorate further. They claim they don’t want media attention, but this memoir will only serve them to be subject to public scrutiny for years to come. Habib Syed, 22, London, student

‘The royals come across better than the media presents’

I am a monarchist – I’d rather maintain the hereditary system with a royal figurehead than go down the route of republicanism. I preordered the book when a publishing date was announced and began reading in the early hours of 10 January whilst on work breaks.

Despite the press hysteria, his father, King Charles, and wider family actually come across in far better terms via this narrative than you might get in the media generally. [Its focus has been] on the sensationalist “conflict” between the brothers, said to have been brought about by Harry’s “resentment” against being the “spare” younger sibling [despite] 411 pages containing anecdotes of his overall life. I think what has also been missing from much of the media is that the book sales are in support of charity. David, 51, Hereford, industrial cleaner

‘I was neutral before, but now I think the royals have to go’

Pratik Samant: ‘Telling a specific family that they were chosen by God to rule over the rest of us is completely insane.’

I had no view of the royal family before. The news I’ve heard about Spare (I have not read it myself) seems to have confirmed what in retrospect should be obvious: telling a specific family that they were chosen by God to rule over the rest of us is completely insane. It is madness to me that the royal family is as popular as it is among the English public.

I was neutral on the issue of republicanism before, but now it’s quite clear: the royal family has got to go. Anyone defending this disaster status quo between the tabloids and the royals is looking increasingly delusional and out of touch. Pratik Samant, 29, Oxford, NHS radiotherapy physicist

‘I no longer support the royals – but Harry has also revealed too much’

I used to be a staunch royalist, loved Diana and the queen, but since seeing Harry and Meghan’s Netflix series and also following the death of our beloved queen, I no longer support them. I found Meghan’s mother really engaging and believable – she made it quite obvious what Meghan has gone through. Also, seeing media stories compared side by side with Kate.

I’m sad for Harry, he seems to be quite lost in the past and still carrying such anger. I’m partway through his book and sadly it does feel like he’s revealed far too many personal issues and I find it hard to defend him any more. There is no way back for him now. I only hope he can enjoy his life in America. Francesca, 56, Hampshire, project administrator

‘Their privileged life comes at a great cost’

Peter Gray: ‘The royal family are trapped.’ Photograph: Peter Gray

I’ve long been in favour of abolishing the monarchy. There are many reasons why this would be a good idea, but the one that has come to the fore recently is how much damage has been done to the members of the Windsor family.

What sometimes appears to be a privileged existence for members of the royal family comes only at the cost of their mental health. Three of the marriages of the queen’s four children have broken up. The minute details of the lives of the royal family are under constant scrutiny and it is very difficult for members of the royal family to express their own feelings.

They’re trapped – they’re under the cosh from those who want a monarchy but don’t care about the people, I consider it to be like an abusive relationship. Peter Gray, 62, Chesterfield, retired

‘My view of Camilla has changed’

I don’t think I ever looked at the royal family as a family, more a collection of characters. But what you’re looking at is a family and this stuff goes on all the time. Having two boys myself, I know that the dynamic of a hierarchy is very common. The second son often feels aggrieved that they didn’t get the attention that the first one got.

I was never a royalist but I was a Meghan fan from watching her in Suits. I really don’t know how she has coped with the constant barrage of negativity, falsehoods and vitriol.

The recent publicity has changed my view of Camilla – she seemed like a decent person, but when she had that lunch with Piers Morgan – that was such a slap in the face. That for me was when I thought, ‘I don’t trust them’. Pauline Killen, 55, Belfast, IT project manager

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/13/prince-harry-spare-book-...

Apparently Harry is winning, the war of the brothers, against William, in public opinion!

Hopefully 'Spare' is the impetus that crushes the blight of the monarchy, once and for all. 

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Prince William’s popularity drops in U.K. as Harry becomes favourite royal in U.S.

By Michelle Butterfield  Global News

Posted January 19, 2023 12:30 pm

 Updated January 20, 2023 10:03 am

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Prince William is facing a substantial dip in popularity in the U.K. after his brother, Prince Harry, shared some not-so-flattering revelations about the heir to the throne in his new memoir, Spare.

The Prince of Wales’s popularity with the British public has plummeted since the book was published last week, according to polling by Ipsos and shared by The Telegraph.

According to The Telegraph, William’s ratings have dropped by eight percentage points, making his current rating some of the lowest figures for the prince on record.

In his memoir, Harry recalls a physical assault by William in 2020 as the two were arguing about Harry’s wife, Meghan Markle.

Harry alleges that William knocked him to the floor of his Kensington Palace home after calling Markle “difficult,” “abrasive” and “rude.”

The confrontation escalated until William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor,” the book reads.

Elsewhere in the book, he details the sibling rivalry between the pair and his feelings of resentment toward his brother.

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Despite the dip in ratings, however, Prince William and his wife, Kate Middleton, remain the most popular senior members of the Royal Family in the U.K., the Ipsos poll found, with ratings of 61 per cent and 60 per cent, respectively. Almost 70 per cent think William will be a good king.

The same can’t be said across the pond, however, where American audiences appear to be more sympathetic to the plight of Harry and Markle.

Additional polling released Thursday by Ipsos found that a quarter of Americans chose Harry as their favourite royal and that those who like the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are more in favour of abolishing the monarchy.

Without making those polled choose between members, almost the same number of Americans have a favourable opinion of Prince Harry and Prince William (41 and 40 per cent, respectively), and more Americans had a more favourable opinion of Middleton (47 per cent) than Markle (35 per cent.)

Spare has flown off the shelves in the days since it was published, smashing records around the globe. It sold 1.4 million English-language copies on the first day it was published and is now the U.K.’s best-selling memoir in first-week sales.

Guinness World Records has confirmed it is the fastest-selling nonfiction book and the sixth fastest-selling book, ever.

Harry has said he had enough material for two memoirs, but that he held back because he didn’t think his father and brother would “ever forgive” him.

In an interview with Telegraph last weekend, he also said that releasing his memoir wasn’t an attempt “to collapse the monarchy. This is about trying to save them from themselves.”

“And I know that I will get crucified by numerous people for saying that,” he said.

“It could have been two books, put it that way,” Harry said in the interview. “But there are some things that have happened, especially between me and my brother, and to some extent between me and my father, that I just don’t want the world to know. Because I don’t think they would ever forgive me.”

Left to right, Britain’s King Charles III, Britain’s Prince Harry, Britain’s Prince Andrew and Britain’s Prince William join the procession following the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, aboard the State Hearse, ahead of the Committal Service for Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, in the Quadrangle inside Windsor Castle, on Sept. 19, 2022. Glyn Kirk / Pool Photo via The Associated Press

Harry also said in the interview that he worried about William’s children, saying he felt “a responsibility knowing that out of those three children, at least one will end up like me, the spare. And that hurts, that worries me.”

He said he felt this way despite William making it clear to him that “his kids are not my responsibility.”

Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace haven’t commented on Harry’s book or his string of media interviews to publicize it, and it’s widely expected that they never will.

— With files from The Associated Press

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