Harry’s forthcoming book sounds high brow. He includes how he lost his virginity. He has sunk to a new low. I don’t think anyone needs to know that.
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Apparently people do, because it’s all over the tabloids. To save people the $28, it’s a ‘beautiful older woman’ whose name does not (allegedly) rhyme with Elizabeth Burley
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Well, now I DO want to read this book! lol
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I hope the brothers reconcile as well. William hollering at Harry is no big deal to me; my sibs and I have yelled at each other now and then. If they did make a pact to never let their comm teams publish things about the other, and the pact was broken, the loss of trust is a bit harder to recover from.
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She denies it. Good grief, how mortifying.
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I believe absolutely zero from the UK tabloids.
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That’s too bad if he’s discussing that. But of course, niw I have to read it! Lol!
I’d probably deny it, too. That’s a 20ish-year age difference and, depending on how old he was when it happened, it’s creepy. Prince Harry and Hugh Grant … it’s just fun to think about.
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I think the broken pact is so incredibly sad. I also don’t think William yelling is that big a deal…who knows what Harry said, he might have been pushing. If Harry is trying to show what the media does, I think his documentary should have delved into that with more statistics, more stories. He should have put more effort to to telling specifics.
Again, true or not, WHY is he including this or anything like this? Does he think it will make him more likeable? More manly? Cool? That he had his pick of other movie stars but picked Meghan?
He is seeming more and more like the last Spare, Prince Andrew. It’s the “I have nothing to lose, so I’ll just do and say whatever I want” syndrome.
Does he not realize someone, someday, will be teaching his children to read?
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I kind of think people are getting ahead of themselves about this loss of virginity thing. Has anyone here seen what was actually written? I’m assuming not. It could be a one sentence mention. We don’t know that there are sordid details. I’m also guessing that part of the book is about the difficulties of dating and seeking a life partner when your entire life is in the public glare and you’re stalked by paparazzi every time they get wind of you dating someone.
As for people upset about the title Spare, I assume he had input but probably not final say on the title. And the use of the phrase “the heir and the spare” was certainly very popular when he was born. Being the “spare” gave him tons of perks but also more freedom than William. It’s a shorthand way to refer to his unique position as a second royal son.
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Likely the virginity story is less than a page. Maybe less than a paragraph. Any other “bombshells” will likely be covered in the media. For me, not worth slogging through 400+ pages. 
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I wish I had kept this article from when Harry was born, it was very humorous. It was in a ladies magazine, don’t remember which one. It was a “letter” written to Princess Diana. The author was congratulating her on the birth of a 2nd child, and went on about all the wonderful things to expect. Then she said for her to get ready for sibling rivalry, especially her kids. Wait until Harry figures out he gets an allowance and William gets England.
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I’m not just interested in bombshells, but interested in his story and life.
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Hey, but she’s hot!
At least the last spare denied everything, he doesn’t sweat remember.
Hey bombshells and popcorn, what’s not to like.
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A good article.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/12/16/meghan-harry-netflix/
If you can’t read it, here’s an excerpt:
<<<Do you suck it up? Christmas after Christmas, christening after christening — through casually racist conversations (how light-skinned will your baby be?) and uptight dinner parties? Through the relentless scrutiny of those watching to assess whether you were having a good enough time at those dinner parties? (Every time Meghan didn’t quite fit in, the paparazzi made a slide show about it.) Do you grit your teeth and then go home and breathe deeply into an empty Lululemon bag?
Or do you turn to your new spouse and say, “I’m out. You coming?”
Meghan and Harry did the latter, and this enrages the kind of people who would do the former — who have done the former, for years, and who are at this very moment getting ready to go spend the holidays on Uncle Mert’s pullout sofa. It especially enrages the kind of people who do the former while wishing they could do the latter — but who can’t even get their spouse to delete 17 hours of “Naked and Afraid” tying up space on the DVR, let alone renounce a royal birthright.
For as angry and frustrated as Haz and Meg are, “Harry & Meghan” is a careful documentary. There are a few hints of family drama, but mostly, instead of dishing the dirt, they gently tap it with a trowel. Members of the royal family are rarely named as villains. Instead, the villains are “the institution” or “the offices” of the family — the royal communications departments who, the couple says, planted negative items about the Sussexes in the tabloids to take attention away from other senior royals.
“Harry & Meghan” did settle something for me: I’m now convinced that stepping back from the royal family was the right thing to do, mostly because the couple believed it was the only thing to do. The relationships — between Meghan and the press, between the couple and the family — had become disastrous to Meghan’s mental health. At one point, she contemplated suicide. No tiara or title is worth this.>>>
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Then I read this and agree that they did the right thing by getting out of the UK.
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