Moehringer visited Harry and Meghan’s Montecito home a few times, staying in their guesthouse. To write the autobiography, Moehringer says he and Harry spoke “around the clock” - on Zoom, on the phone, via text, and, eventually, in person. I found his story, as he outlined it in broad strokes, relatable and infuriating.”

“I called him dude right away it made him chuckle. “I just liked the dude,” Moehringer writes about the first time he spoke with Harry in 2020. In a new essay for The New Yorker, Moehringer reveals that he really likes Harry. Now, Moehringer - a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who also worked on Andre Agassi’s memoir - has given his own account of what it was like to work on the book with Harry. The level of candidness left many readers scratching their heads - and wondering about the intentions of Harry’s ghostwriter, J.R.

When Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare, was released in January, it included many baffling details, from a recollection of his frostbitten penis at his brother’s wedding to a particularly cringe-inducing account of losing his virginity. Some fans are sympathetic to Harry and what he has gone through, while some think it’s time Harry practice a little gratitude and others simply shared lighthearted jokes about the memoir.Photo: Andrew Matthews - WPA Pool/Getty Images

The Economist called the memoir an “ill-advised romp.”įans have gone easier on the book than critics.

“Open the book and you discover quite a different Harry from the cool, square-jawed metrosexual Californian on the cover.

The London Times called the book a “400-page therapy session for mystic Harry,” wrote James Marriott.

“Harry comes across as honest and reflective, but also angry, thin-skinned, disoriented” Henry Mance wrote in the Financial Times.

According to Lucy Pavia with the Independent, the book “sets fire to the royal family.” Pavis claims the book is “beautifully” written and “doesn’t so much lift the curtain on private royal life than rip it off and shake out its contents.”.

In places it feels like the longest angry drunk text ever sent,” per the BBC.

Sean Coughlan, a royal correspondent said “Spare” is “part confession, part rant and part love letter.

“At once emotional and embittered, the royal memoir is mired in a paradox: drawing endless attention in an effort to renounce fame,” Alexandra Jacobs wrote for The New York Times.

Prince Harry expressed concerns about Camilla, and everything else we know about his upcoming memoir ‘Spare’.

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