Amusing as it was to find Nicholas Witchell reporting for the BBC on the book’s release by filming the sole person queueing outside Waterstones’ London flagship to buy it, I think the sound of the ex- Sun hack Dan Wootton railing flatulently in the Daily Mail at Harry’s description of him as a “sad little man” just edged it for me (“no, YOU’RE the sad little man, Mister Prince!”).

I t’s now almost a week since Prince Harry’s memoir Spare was published and what thrillingly hectic days they’ve been: hard to pick a highlight. Composite: Reuters AFP/Getty Images PA Clockwise from bottom left: Kate, William, Harry and Meghan at Windsor Castle after the Queen’s death, 2022 Harry aged three with his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales princes William, Harry and Charles at Diana’s funeral procession, 1997 a day-old Prince Harry meets the press, 1984 Harry and William on what would have been their mother’s 60th birthday, 2021 Harry on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last week the brothers in 2012 Harry and Meghan after their wedding in 2018.

Clockwise from bottom left: Kate, William, Harry and Meghan at Windsor Castle after the Queen’s death, 2022 Harry aged three with his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales princes William, Harry and Charles at Diana’s funeral procession, 1997 a day-old Prince Harry meets the press, 1984 Harry and William on what would have been their mother’s 60th birthday, 2021 Harry on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last week the brothers in 2012 Harry and Meghan after their wedding in 2018.

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