A prolonged whinge by a spiteful and self-pitying blockhead is on course to become the highest-grossing book of all time. Prince Harry’s solipsistic memoir Spare — I can’t help feeling that Spare Us would have summarized the public mood better — sold 1.4 million copies on the day of its publication.
It annoys me when badly written books —The Da Vinci Code, say, or Fifty Shades of Grey — do well. This is not because I begrudge the authors of their success but because it undermines my belief in the wisdom of crowds and the appeal of mass democracy.
Harry is not alone in being a conceited dolt. Nor is he unique in having bought into the victimhood worship that is fashionable — although it is one of the odder claims to oppressed status to have had a slightly smaller room than your brother in what was, at the end of the day, a palace. But Harry takes his whining to unconsciously hilarious levels with his entitlement, his pettiness, his burning rage about the half-imagined slights suffered in childhood.
Has Harry, as is widely alleged, undermined the monarchy? Not in the way that is commonly meant. Although he is disobliging about his immediate family members, they emerge well from his book, in spite of him. King Charles III comes across as a decent old stick, Prince William as boring but kindly. I should stress that the British like their royals dull, dutiful, and slightly philistine.
Maybe. But if someone with the mental or moral character of Henry Charles Albert David, Duke of Sussex, Earl of Dumbarton, and Baron Kilkeel, were in danger of acceding to the throne, Parliament would almost certainly intervene to change the line of succession.
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