Prince Harry takes major bombshell decision That would surprise Royal family
The Duke of Sussex made for explosive headlines when the hardback edition of his bombshell memoir, Spare, was released in January 2024 – and it is now set to be released in a paperback edition this autumn.
The book will be published on October 22 in America and two days later in the UK, as confirmed by publishers Penguin Random House.
However, Prince Harry has made a major decision surrounding the publicity of the memoir, and the Daily Mail’s diary editor, Richard Eden, understands the Duke “is not planning to give any interviews to publicise the paperback edition”.
A source told the Daily Mail: “Harry doesn’t plan to give any interviews to promote the paperback edition. The paperback was a part of the book deal he signed, but he is not contractually obliged to promote this edition. The reason it has taken longer than usual for the paperback to be published is that the more expensive hardback was still selling well.
The diary editor believes the absence of public relations will be welcomed: “My news will come as a relief to the Royal Family, who were subjected to a series of tell-all interviews with Prince Harry when he was promoting the publication of the hardback edition in January last year.”
Speaking to ITV’s Tom Bradby during the release of the memoir, Prince Harry accused “certain members” of the Royal Family of being “complicit” in leaking stories to the press.
He said: “Those certain members have decided to get in the bed with the devil, right? – to rehabilitate their image. If you need to do that, or you want to do that, you choose to do that – well, that is a choice. That’s up to you.
“But the moment that that rehabilitation comes at the detriment of others – me, other members of my family – then that’s where I draw the line
Prince Harry celebrated success after his memoir, Spare, emerged as the best selling book of 2023 in the UK.The Duke of Sussex’s tell-all book sold more than 700,000 copies last year after it hit the shelves in January 2023, figures show. It outsold the second entry in the list by 180,000 copies, according to data obtained by The Bookseller.
Spare sold 706,978 copies in total in 2023, whilst Richard Osman’s The Last Devil to Die sold 529,532 copies.
The book drew in criticism as Harry gave an insight into the life of the royals and his rift with the Firm and among his claims was an incident between him and his older brother, Prince William, in which the Prince of Wales became “physical” towards him.
Elsewhere in the memoir, Harry claimed he and his brother begged King Charles not to marry Queen Camilla, whom he described as a “wicked stepmother”.
Royal fans were also shocked as Spare also included intimate details of the Duke’s loss of virginity to an older woman in a field behind a pub and his cocaine use.
