Prince Harry memoir, Spare, out January 10 | CBC News

Prince Harry’s memoir, an object of obsessive anticipation around the world since it was first announced last year, will be released on January 10.

The book is called spare part and is billed by Penguin Random House as a report told with “raw, unflinching honesty” and filled with “insight, revelations, introspection, and hard-won wisdom about love’s eternal power over grief.”

In a statement released Thursday, Penguin Random House conjured up memories of the stunning 1997 deaths of Prince Harry’s mother Diana and Harry and his brother William “walking behind their mother’s coffin while the world looked on in sadness — and horror.” .

“When Diana, Princess of Wales was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes were thinking and feeling – and how their lives would unfold from that point,” the statement reads in part.

“For Harry, this is finally his story.”

The memoir’s title is an obvious indication that Prince Harry is a royal “surrogate,” not the first in the line of succession. William, Prince of Wales is next in line.

The 416-page book will be published in 16 languages, ranging from Dutch to Portuguese, and will also be published in an audio version read by Prince Harry. Financial terms have not been disclosed but Harry, the Duke of Sussex will use proceeds from spare part to donate to UK charities. He has already donated US$1.5 million to Sentebale, an organization he co-founded with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho to help children and youth in Lesotho and Botswana who are affected by HIV/AIDS.

Penguin Random House describes Prince Harry as a “husband, father, philanthropist, military veteran, mental health advocate and environmentalist”.

Royals watchers and the general public have speculated endlessly since the book was first announced in July 2021.

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The Duke of Sussex had already expressed a headline-grabbing willingness to speak out about his private life when he and his American-born wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex were interviewed by their Santa Barbara, California neighbor Oprah for a March 2021 broadcast Winfrey. The couple spoke of Meghan’s deep dissatisfaction with her new life in England, the alleged racism within the royal family and Harry’s fear that his wife’s life could be in danger if they stayed in his homeland.

In 1992, Diana collaborated with author Andrew Morton on her explosive memoir Diana: Her true storyin which she detailed her unhappy marriage to the future King Charles, Harry’s father.

Harry and Meghan stepped down from royal duties in 2020 and moved to the United States. Harry told Winfrey that his family cut him off financially and that he helped pay for his security with the money his mother left him. They have launched numerous initiatives, including a Netflix production deal and the “impact-driven non-profit” Archewell Foundation.

The book’s delay led to rumors that Harry was reluctant to say too much about his family, or perhaps revise the narrative, after his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, died in September. He has spoken of being estranged from his brother William, despite the siblings and their wives appearing in public together during the mourning period following the Queen’s death.