![]() ![]() Moehringer) has concocted a voice that combines Jilly Cooper and ‘Normal Bloke’. Throughout Spare, Harry comes across as remarkably un-self-aware and desperate to be liked, an unsettling psychological state underpinned by the strangeness of the prose. He also complains heartily about being the constitutionally less important brother: Harry got the smaller room at Balmoral as a child (‘Willy’ got the room with the ‘good-sized basin’) in his twenties he was given a mere single floor of Kensington Palace on ‘the lower ground floor’ William unfairly claimed the entire continent of Africa for public displays of do-gooding, despite knowing how many gap years Harry had taken in Lesotho. ![]() Later, he condemns the treatment of Meghan Markle by the media and his family. Harry is wounded by his mother’s death, which he blames on the press. The book compiles a litany of grievances that range from the profound to the petty. What do you get when you combine a disgruntled prince, the mother of all Oedipal complexes and a ghost-written memoir? The answer, of course, is Spare, Prince Harry’s tour de force of royal ressentiment (wrapped up in a very millennial tale). Or why ressentiment is the prevailing moral attitude of the day ![]()
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