**spoiler alert** What can I say about this book, and why one would or would not want to read it? I’m sure everything has already been said, and the R**spoiler alert** What can I say about this book, and why one would or would not want to read it? I’m sure everything has already been said, and the Royals, whether or not they maintain their Royal titles, have a lot of others who say much about them.
I am but a simple USian person. Though I’ve grown up knowing about Diana, Charles, and the two princes so close in age to myself, it’s clear that we don’t have much in common. That is-there is a vast difficulty for me at times to empathize with Harry because the whole of his existence is so difficult for me to imagine.
Having to be hooked up to tracking devices at all times while accompanied everywhere by 3 body guards yet never having an emotional connection to a single adult around you sounds uniquely abusive.
Maybe that in itself is what makes the book and it’s author most important: not any one individual’s take, but the fact that the author himself is saying, “look what this institution has done to me and my mother and look at how it continues to abuse us.�
A taboo is a taboo, and many white westerners wouldn’t think to share their family’s “dirty laundry� and mental health problems publicly.
How absolutely *scandalous!*
Could Harry have made better amends at his own antisemitism? Yes! It’s noted he never once mentioned how the abdicated former King Edward VIII who married American Wallace Simpson were both Nazis.
He also didn’t mention Andrew and his alleged child sexual abuse history. In fact, I believe the only time Andrew is mentioned is when Meghan first sees him: and thinks he’s the Queen’s attendant.
As much of a “radical� as I am now, it’s a completely satisfying read. Having read Diana’s biography while going through my own divorce, I found her words echoing in Harry’s experience.
And I can’t help but wonder at the great impact this could have (or won’t have) upon the British Royal family and system as it is and has been.
I appreciate and find some sense of understanding in the taboo sharing of family abuses, secrets, and how to find meaning in one’s life when one takes a stand outside of the toxic dynamics harming them.
It pairs excellently with Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Dr. Lindsay Gibson because, like many commoners, Harry knows from experience how to he has been neglected and abused: he has a uniquely solitary understanding of that as someone who is unlucky enough to be born into royal life.
As I’m writing this after the coronation, I’ll note that it’s been a pleasure to watch Harry rush in and out, hanger in hand, unbothered and uninterested in appearances. Like he came back on his own terms for once.
Many can find this relatable, I’m sure. Anyone who has interest in royal life, family dynamics, abuse, and human development can find interesting information here.
Is Harry going to bring down the global colonizer that is the Firm? No.
But this book won’t help it any, and the damage that he and Diana both have done to the institution shouldn’t be discounted.
Who should read this book? Anyone interested in the British Royal family, anyone wanting to learn more about Meghan and Harry, people interested in history, people who enjoy biographies.
Having been a huge fan of Diana’s, and having heard and seen in tabloids nasty things about her my whole childhood, I feel a selfish inner glee at the embarrassment this book causes Charles and Camilla.
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