Duke of Sussex

In Spare the Duke of Sussex recalls Sergeant Major Michael Booley (left) deliberately stalling the plane he was piloting, leaving him questioning whether it ...

Later in Spare he claims Meghan’s decision to sue The Mail on Sunday for printing excerpts from a letter she sent her father was the subject of a media blackout. Harry describes how the Queen had consigned the exiled Duke and Duchess of Windsor to a remote corner of the burial ground. In Spare, he claims newspapers quickly ‘began pushing a story that I was afraid to go into the Army, that I was bunking off, using a fake knee injury as a way of stalling. As for the headlines, on the day in question, November 10, Meghan did not feature on a single front page. Instead, he was skiing in the Swiss resort of Klosters with his father and brother. As the Royal Collection Trust confirms, ‘the first corgis joined the Royal Family in 1933 when the Duke of York, later King George VI, acquired two for his daughters Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret’. ‘Before her were rows and rows of magazines and newspapers, and on all of them, under the most shocking and disgusting headlines . Harry poignantly describes learning of the death of the 101-year-old Queen Mother in a telephone call while studying at Eton. All very evocative but in portraying his family as aloof and uncaring — allowing a servant to give him the news — Harry is getting things wrong. He continues: ‘On the way back to Balmoral, a two-minute drive, it was suggested that we stop. It's important to highlight that nothing in the cockpit comes as a surprise.' Now you’ve given me an heir and a spare — my work is done.’ A joke, he presumes, before adding: ‘On the other hand, minutes after delivering this bit of high comedy, Pa was said to have gone off to meet his girlfriend.’