Spare, Prince Harry’s explosive autobiography, may have smashed first-day sales records and proved immensely popular with the British public, but the book can be bought for the knockdown price of £5 on Facebook Marketplace — with a digital version on offer for just £3.
Normally retailing for £14, publishers Penguin Random House reported sales of more than 1.4 million copies on the day of its release last Tuesday (January 10) – their largest ever total for any non-fiction book. But the Duke of Sussex’s memoir is not to everyone’s taste, with one uninterested recipient of the tome asking just a fiver for his unwanted copy, reports the Mirror.
The bombshell Royal chronicle has been extremely desirable since its release, with Prince Harry taking aim at King Charles, Queen Consort Camilla, Prince William and Kate Middleton, as well as sharing details of how he coped with the death of Princess Diana. He also goes into detail about his and Meghan Markle’s time in the Royal Family.
One of the most talked-about claims in Spare is that a physical confrontation took place between him and older brother William at Nottingham Cottage in Kensington Palace in 2019. Harry claims a meeting was set up with William at his home to discuss the “whole rolling catastrophe” of their worsening relationship.
Harry claims he offered his brother a glass of water when things became confrontational, but says William then “attacked” him. He writes: “He set down the water, 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.”
The book says William had called Meghan “difficult”, “rude” and “abrasive” – comments which the younger brother said parroted “the press narrative” about his wife. Buckingham and Kensington Palaces have refused to comment on the contents of the book.
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