Book Report: Spare by Prince Harry

26 takeaways from Hazza's memoir.

Hello friends!

As I was reading Prince Harry’s book and marking it up like the intense student that I once way, I thought maybe I’d try out a Book Report franchise as part of the subscriber model…so here were are. (There was a color coding system to all my tabs pictured below, but that fell apart early on.) I think sometimes I’ll structure them like an old school version we were taught to do in school back in the 1900s, as the kids say. And others, like this one, I’ll play around with format.

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There’s also a bonus Hazza-themed episode of the podcast that dropped on Friday—with part two of my convo with my friend Bonnie Morrison where we talk about the timing of telling your story, therapy, the Anderson Cooper interview and lots more. And there are more notes in the regular Friday edition of WHN.

But without further ado, I give you 26 things that crossed my mind when reading H’s Spare. Some are incredibly unserious—and some are rather heartbreaking…just like the book.

• Overall, I don’t think this book is going to majorly change anyone’s mind that is already set on how they feel about Harry (and by extension, Meghan). (If you’ve not held a strong opinion, it might through.) But I do think that if you don’t feel a certain level of empathy for this man after reading it, I’d have some questions about your heart.

• Harry’s ghostwriter, JR Moehringer (read more about him here), did a v. nice job with this book. Sometimes I found myself wishing it was voicier, but then I’d remember that Haz is low-key finding his voice and was also raised as a stuffy royal lol.

• Haz knows he’s blowing shit up and maybe that’s the right call. Who can say? That he’s aware certainly comes off more in the book than in his interviews. I’m not sure I see a way back for this family, but stranger things have happened.