During the January interview on Good Morning America with Michael Strahan for ABC News, prince harry He says he can’t imagine his brother. Prince William writing a memoir At the time, Harry could only be seen promoting Spare, his gritty autobiography that shared an emotional side of the young British royal family and his travails.

There was an error when the Spanish version of Spare was published earlier; Portions of the book were leaked into British newspapers. Although he attended an interview with ABC, which wasn’t as big a news story as previous coverage, Harry made a funny comment when Strahan asked him if William would write a memoir in the future.

“Now you have the opportunity to tell your story. “His brother may never have the opportunity to tell his side of the story,” Strahan said during the interview. “Do you have any sympathy for that?” Harry replied thoughtfully, “Yes, and I think that, you know, after I’ve done this, the book comes out, I hope other members of the family feel like they can write their own book.”

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Will William write his own memoirs?

The idea of ​​Prince William writing a memoir may seem surprising, especially since Harry and Meghan Markle have often spoken of feeling silenced by the royal institution during their time as working royals.

As in Spare, Harry recounts a tumultuous relationship with his older brother, describing an incident in which he was hit in a dog bowl by William, whom he describes as possessing an “alarming baldness.” He also described his stepmother, Queen Camilla, as having “sacrificed” him for public relations reasons.

Similarly, journalist Jonathan Dimbleby, in an authorized biography titled The Prince of Wales: A Biography, explained how Queen Elizabeth II spent limited time with Charles (only half an hour in the morning and around 90 minutes at bedtime). sleep), letting the babysitters witness many of their milestones, such as their first steps. “He often seemed determined not only to correct the prince but also to mock him,” the biography relates.

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“To his anguish and shame, the little boy frequently cried because of the jokes to which he was subjected and to which he could not find an answer.”