In recent days, the British media have been vying to publish the most shocking extracts from the 500-plus-page book. Prince Harry’s memoir, due out on January 10, is already causing a stir in the UK and dash any hope of reconciliation between Windsor and Sussex.
His revelations are even more shattering than expected, and the most destructive concern his brother William, the heir to the throne, whom Harry describes as a “sworn enemy”. But other parts of the life of the royal family are not spared.
A violent altercation with William
This is the first indiscretion of the book to have leaked: according to the GuardianHarry accuses his brother William of throwing him to the ground during a 2019 argument over Meghan, whom Harry had married the year before.
William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my collar off, and knocked me to the ground,” Harry would relate. “I landed on the dog bowl, which shattered under my back, the pieces cutting into me,” the prince would add.
This altercation would have left Harry with “scratches and bruises”, he further details, according to the Guardian.
He took cocaine
According to Sky News, Harry admitted to having “of course” taken cocaine. “At someone’s house, during a hunting weekend, I was offered a line and then I took it again,” he wrote. “It wasn’t very fun, it didn’t make me particularly happy”, “but it made me feel different”. “I was a 17-year-old who wanted to try anything to challenge the established order.”
25 dead in Afghanistan
The youngest son of King Charles reveals that he killed 25 “enemy combatants” in Afghanistan, which he saw as “pieces of a chess game”. “I had made it my goal from day one never to go to bed doubting that I had done the right thing, that I had shot Taliban and only Taliban, without civilians nearby,” he says in the book, according to the Daily Telegraph.
In the age of Apache helicopters and computers, he knows “exactly how many enemy combatants” he has killed. “And it seemed essential to me not to be afraid of this number”, which gives him neither “satisfaction” nor “embarrassment”.
The loss of her virginity
He also recounts “the humiliating episode” of his loss of virginity with an “older woman” assures Sky News. She loved horses and treated him like a “young stallion”. She spanked him after he ‘rapidly mounted’ her in a field at the back of a busy pub, the site reports.
His relationship with his parents
The anecdote comes this time from the Daily Mail, which reveals that Harry said he opposed his father’s remarriage to Camilla, fearing that she would be a “nasty stepmother”. “I remember wondering…if she would be cruel to me; if she would be like all the mean stepmothers in the stories,” he wrote.
Inconsolable after the death of his mother, Prince Harry reveals that he consulted a person, whom he refrains from describing as a “medium”, which would have allowed him to get in touch with Diana, reveals the Guardian. “I felt an energy around her,” he says, explaining that this woman told him “your mother is with you”. She explained to him that Diana was telling her that he was “living the life she couldn’t live” and that he was “living the life” she wanted for him.