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<p>Any lingering hopes for the royal family that <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/prince-harrys-memoir-could-spell-big-trouble-for-king-charles-royal-insiders-fear">Prince Harry’s forthcoming memoir</a> would pull its punches or <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tina-brown-says-harrys-book-wont-ever-be-published-and-charles-will-pay-off-the-publishers">be abandoned</a> were shattered today as publisher Penguin Random House confirmed its devastating title: <em>Spare</em>.</p>
<p>The title is a reference to the old aphorism about the brutal nature of the system of primogeniture, which will one day see his brother William made king, that it is best to have two sons, “an heir and a spare.”</p>
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Any lingering hopes for the royal family that Prince Harry’s forthcoming memoir would pull its punches or be abandoned were shattered today as publisher Penguin Random House confirmed its devastating title: Spare.
The title is a reference to the old aphorism about the brutal nature of the system of primogeniture, which will one day see his brother William made king, that it is best to have two sons, “an heir and a spare.”
