HARRY UNLEASHED

Revelations, accusations, recriminations – the prince has spared no one in his sensational memoir about his family

- NICOLA WHITFIELD

PLEASE boys, don’t make my final years a misery.”

These were the words Prince Harry claims his fa­ther spoke to his sons at Prince Philip’s funeral in April 2021 – intensely pri­vate words King Charles would surely never have expected to be thrust into the public domain.

But thanks to Prince Harry’s astonish­ing revelations in his explosive memoir, they are out there forever, along with a veritable smorgasbord of tit-bits for the world to feast on.

Never in the history of the royal family has one of their own said so much about the institution and the people who pop­ulate it. And it’s causing a global frenzy.

What Harry says in Spare – and he talks about everything from his issues with his stepmother to taking drugs and getting frostbite on his penis – has dom­inated world headlines.

It also led to the hashtag Shut Up Har­ry as a backlash swelled – but it’s unlike­ly to put a dent in sales. The book was a bestseller before its official release and even the fiercest critics have confessed they can’t help but be fascinated by the minutiae of the detail.

Yet the damage Spare has caused is un­likely to be undone. In the run-­up to the official launch, Harry, on a publicity trail of TV interviews, said he wanted recon­ciliation.

“I want a family, not an institution,” he says on the UK’s ITV. “I would like to get my father back. I would like to have my father back.”

But right now, that seems impossible. The Duke of Sussex has gone rogue, Tina Brown, former Vanity Fair editor and biographer of Princess Diana, says.