by Prince Harry’s memoir, an object of obsessive anticipation around the world since it was first announced last year, will be released on January 10, 2023.
The book will be called Spare and is presented by its publisher Penguin Random House as a tale told with “raw, unflinching honesty” and filled with “insight, revelation, self-examination and hard-won wisdom about love’s eternal power over sorrow”.
The title of the memoir is an apparent reference to Prince Harry being a royal “reserve”, not the first in the line of succession. William, Prince of Wales, is next.
The 416-page book will be published in 16 languages around the world. It is published in Canada by Random House Canada. Prince Harry will also narrate the audiobook, which will be released the same day.
Financial terms were not disclosed, but Harry will use proceeds from Spare donate to UK charities. He has already donated US$1.5 million (C$2.04 million) to Sentebale, an organization he co-founded with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho to help children and young people in Lesotho and Botswana affected by HIV/AIDS.
The book was originally due to be published in 2022. The book’s delay led to rumors that Harry was reluctant to say too much about his family, or perhaps revise the narrative after the death of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II. , in September. He spoke of being estranged from his brother, William, although the siblings and their wives appeared in public together during the period of mourning following the Queen’s death.
“Penguin Random House is honored to publish the candid and emotionally powerful story of Prince Harry for readers around the world,” Penguin Random House Global CEO Markus Dohle said in a statement. “He shares a remarkably moving personal journey, from trauma to healing, that speaks to the power of love and will inspire and encourage millions around the world.”
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Inspired by his mother, Diana
In a statement on Thursday, Penguin Random House recalled memories of the stunning 1997 deaths of Prince Harry’s mother, Diana, and Harry and his brother, William, “walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched with sadness and horror”.
“As Diana, Princess of Wales was laid to rest, billions of people wondered what the princes must have been thinking and feeling – and how their lives would unfold from then on,” the statement read in part.
“For Harry, this is finally his story.”
In 1992 Diana worked with author Andrew Morton on his explosive memoir Diana: her true storyin which she describes at length her unhappy marriage to the future King Charles, Harry’s father.
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Harry the Journalist
Penguin Random House identifies Prince Harry as “husband, father, humanitarian, veteran, mental wellness advocate and environmentalist.”
Royal family watchers and the general public have speculated endlessly since the book was first announced in July 2021, touted as “intimate and heartfelt” and tentatively scheduled for release this year.
The Duke of Sussex had previously revealed a media willingness to discuss his private life when he and his American-born wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, were interviewed for a March 2021 show by their neighbor in Santa Barbara, California. , Oprah Winfrey. The couple spoke of Meghan’s deep dissatisfaction with her new life in England, alleged racism within the royal family and Harry’s fear that his wife’s life would be in danger if they had stayed in his house. native country.
Harry and Meghan stepped back from royal duties in 2020 and moved to the United States. Harry told Winfrey that his family had cut him off financially and that he had helped pay for her security with money left to her by her mother. They’ve launched numerous initiatives, including a Netflix production deal and the “impact-focused nonprofit” Archewell Foundation.
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The Sussexes are now both authors
Meghan also recently became an author. She has published her first book, The Picture Book The bench, in the spring of 2021. The book, illustrated by American artist Christian Robinson, was a celebration of fathers and sons. It was inspired by Harry’s relationship with the couple’s first child, Archie.
Their second child, a daughter named Lilibet, was born in June 2021.
The bench is the second book Meghan has worked on.
In 2018, she worked on and wrote the preface to Together, a cookbook compiling recipes from survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire in London. In the aftermath of the fire, several women gathered at the Hubb Community Kitchen to share recipes, find community and restore hope. Meghan has become involved with the group and the cookbook serves as a fundraiser for the kitchen.
Meghan married Prince Harry in 2018. They stepped down from royal duties in 2020 and now live in Los Angeles.
Since ending their royal duties, Harry and Meghan have continued their charity work, signed TV and other media deals and launched a podcast in December 2020.
Meghan lived in Toronto from 2011 to 2017, while filming the TV show Combinations.
— With files from CBC Books
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