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In choosing the one-word title Spare for his memoir, Prince Harry has served clear notice that the reserves of seething anger he has expressed toward his family of origin in various interviews since he left the royal family will be fully excavated in his forthcoming tome, set to be published January 10 2023.
The title is a reference to the chilly phrase which aristocratic English families, often sardonically, use to describe the supposed good fortune of having two male sons; the family in question is said to have “an heir and a spare.”