Under the ‘we pay, you entertain’ deal, Harry is now the hardest working royal | Martha Gill
His salacious revelations won’t bring an end to the monarchy. We enjoy watching the soap opera too much for that
It’s as if royal watchers have been fed on scraps all their lives – the breaking of the colour of a pair of tights protocol here, the “body language that suggested tension” there – and the Duke of Sussex has laid before them a banquet. His book Spare, leaked to the press, serves up course after course. Hardly had we digested the first revelation – a necklace-smashing fight between royal brothers – when the next were presented. The boys “begging” their father not to marry Camilla; two tearful bust-ups between duchesses; Charles joking that Harry wasn’t his; Harry’s frostbitten penis at William’s wedding.
It was William and Kate, it turns out, who encouraged him to wear that Nazi costume in 2005 – Harry had just been following orders. Then there was the lost virginity in a field to an “older woman” who “treated him like a young stallion”. “I mounted her quickly, she spanked my ass and sent me away,” he wrote.
