Royalty. Violent William, cocaine, Afghanistan … the revelations of Prince Harry’s shock memories
Even before being published, Prince Harry’s memoir caused a stir. British media have obtained sensational extracts from this book, The Alternate, which will be released on January 10. According to the Guardian, Harry evokes throughout the book the difficulty of being “the substitute”. Among other shocking revelations, he says in particular that on the day of his birth, his father Charles said to his mother Diana: “Magnificent! From now on you have given me an heir and a substitute – mission accomplished”. Selected pieces.
A violent argument with William in 2019
According to excerpts from the book distributed by the Guardian, the Duke of Sussex notably accuses his brother William of having thrown him to the ground during an argument in 2019 concerning Meghan, whom Harry had married the previous year. During this altercation, William would have called Meghan a “difficult” and “rude” woman, before the tone rose between the two brothers and insults burst out.
William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my collar off, and knocked me to the ground,” Harry would relate. “I landed on the dog’s bowl, which broke under my back, the pieces cutting into me,” the prince would add, having remained on the ground “dazed” before asking his brother to leave. William would then “apologize” while asking his brother not to talk about the altercation with Meghan, which Harry would have ended up doing anyway, recounting that she “wasn’t that surprised or angry” but “terribly sad”.
Buckingham Palace remained silent on this information, as on all the accusations submitted in the thunderous Netflix docuseries on the Sussexes released last month: the couple blamed the royal family for not having protected them and Harry accused his brother for having “screamed” at him in 2020 in the presence of Elizabeth II.
The “ugly mother-in-law”, the Nazi costume and defloration
According to Daily mailHarry also explains in his memoirs that he opposed his father’s remarriage to Camilla, fearing that she would be an “ugly stepmother”.
In addition, according to the tabloid The Sun, Harry claims that William and his wife Kate encouraged him, when he was 20, to dress up as a Nazi at a costume party, which caused a scandal.
According to Sky Newshe also recounts the “humiliating episode” of his loss of virginity to an “older woman”, who loved horses and treated him like a “young stallion”…and spanked him after he ‘rapidly mounted’ her in a field behind an alluded pub.
25 “Taliban” killed in Afghanistan
The youngest son of King Charles also 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 recounts in the book, according to the The telegraph of the day. In the age of Apache helicopters and computers, he says “exactly how many enemy combatants” he killed. “And it seemed essential to me not to be afraid of this number”, “25”, which gave him neither “satisfaction” nor “embarrassment”.
Inquest into Diana’s death
After the death of Lady Di in a car accident in Paris, Harry said according to Sky News that his brother William and him had considered “simplistic and absurd” the conclusions of the investigations according to justifying the state of drunkenness of the driver was “the only cause of the accident”. If the driver was “dazzled” by the paparazzi, “why weren’t they in jail?” But “those who decided dissuaded us” from asking for the investigation to be reopened, writes Harry.
Contact with his mother
According to Guardian, Prince Harry also reveals that he consulted a woman on the advice of a friend, whom he abstained from the qualifier of “medium”, which allowed him to come into contact with his mother Diana. “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”, that he was “living the life” that she wanted for him.
Cocaine
According to Sky News, Harry also admits in his memoir 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.”
Charles jokes about Harry’s ‘real’ father
According to Sixth page of the New York Post, Harry finally recounts that one of the “best jokes” in the “repertoire” of his father King Charles III was to say: “Who knows if I am really the Prince of Wales? Who knows if I’m even your father? “He was laughing and laughing, although it was a particularly funny joke given the rumor circulating at the time that my real father was one of Mum’s former lovers: Major James Hewitt,” he said. According to him, one of the causes of this rumor was that the latter was redheaded, another was “sadism”.
Prince Harry’s TV interview broadcast on TF1 on Monday
Prince Harry’s interview will be broadcast in France by TF1 on Monday evening, the day after it was broadcast by the British channel ITV. This interview will air at 11:10 p.m.
It was produced by Tom Bradby, journalist and presenter of the British channel ITV, which broadcasts it on Sunday evening. Along with the release of his memoir, Prince Harry has given two interviews, one to ITV and the other to CBS in the US, which is also due to air on Sunday.