Spare

 Shirley J.          Adult Non-Fiction  Autobiography                    The life of Prince Harry as told by him

Spare by Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex   416 pages

Excellent book.   It gives you a personal interpretation of royal life and events including his mother's tragic death as seen through the eyes of the Prince himself.   Harry gives a behind the scenes look at growing up the spare not the heir to the crown and how he was always made aware of that fact growing up and how little the palace did anything to stop incorrect stories in the media about him.   He admits to the things he did do (dressing in a Nazi costume for a party - young, stupid and didn't think about it being a huge slap to the people and their descendants who suffered through the Holocaust; getting drunk, high and ending up photographed naked in Las Vegas, etc.)  but many things he was accused of in the press he did not do.   Events were either misconstrued for sensationalism and the lie stuck, or inside the palace people leaked partial stories for pay that weren't true because the media made up the rest.   Time and again throughout his life, when Harry went to his father's and grandmother's "handlers" for help in combating the media's lies, he was told to just ignore it while the handlers put good spins on anything coming up in the media that might be taken negatively about Charles ("Camilla Gate") or the Queen when for appearances sake royal responses are required even when she didn't choose to give one, etc.  Harry was always made out to be the lesser royal, the bad student, the bad boy and things didn't change once he married.   When he tried to defend his wife and again went to the palace courtiers for help in fighting the stories in the media again he was told not to read the papers or social media stories.  They never offered to go after any of the insulting, slanderous and downright lies being printed by the media.   And when Harry and Megan had their fill and decided to leave royal service to pursue their own life abroad they were drug through the dirt again, offered no help and turned down cold for offering to still do public service on behalf of the Queen.   Once the Queen passed away, Charles as King went after them by taking away their HRH (His/her royal highness) status just as was done to Diana, and have allowed their spin doctors to hype Harry and Megan in the press by feeding the press false stories to make Charles and Camilla look good while villainizing Harry and Megan.    It is a good book with lots of inside information on the real relationships and truth behind the stories.   An excellent read for anyone who finds Harry and the Royal Family of interest.   I recommend this book to middle schoolers on up to the elderly.  Well done Prince Harry.