The Prince Harry memoir, which has been an object of obsessive anticipation around the world since it was first announced last year, is due out on January 10, 2023.
The book is called spare part and is billed by its publisher, Penguin Random House, as an account told with “raw, unflinching honesty” and filled with “insight, revelations, introspection, and hard-won wisdom about love’s eternal power over grief.”
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 worldwide in 16 languages. It is published in Canada by Random House Canada. Prince Harry will also be voicing the audio book, which will be released on the same day.
Financial terms were not disclosed, but Harry will use proceeds from spare part to donate to UK charities. He has already donated US$1.5 million (CAD$2.04 million) to Sentebale, an organization he co-founded with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho to help children and youth in Lesotho and Botswana affected by HIV/ affected by AIDS.
The book was originally scheduled for release in 2022. 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.
“Penguin Random House is honored to bring the honest and emotionally powerful story of Prince Harry to readers around the world,” said Penguin Random House global CEO Markus Dohle in a statement. “He shares a remarkably moving personal journey from trauma to healing, a journey that speaks of the power of love that will inspire and encourage millions of people around the world.”
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Inspired by his mother Diana
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.”
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.
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Harry the Newsmaker
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, when it was billed as “intimate and heartfelt” and tentatively scheduled for release this year.
The Duke of Sussex had already expressed a resounding 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 Winfrey for a March 2021 broadcast became . 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.
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.
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The Sussexes are both writers now
Meghan has also recently become a writer. She published her first book, the picture book The Bank, in Spring 2021. The book, illustrated by American artist Christian Robinson, was a celebration of fathers and sons. It was inspired by Harry’s relationship with the couple’s first child, Archie.
Their second child, a daughter named Lilibet, was born in June 2021.
The Bank is the second book Meghan has worked on.
In 2018 she worked on and wrote the foreword Together, a cookbook featuring recipes from survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire in London. After the fire, several women came together at the Hubb Community Kitchen to share recipes, find community, and restore hope. Meghan became involved with the group, and the cookbook serves as a fundraiser for the kitchen.
Meghan married Prince Harry in 2018. They left royal duties in 2020 and now reside in Los Angeles.
Since completing their royal duties, Harry and Meghan have continued their charity work, signing deals for TV and other media and launching a podcast in December 2020.
Meghan lived in Toronto from 2011 to 2017 while filming the TV show suits.
— With files from CBC Books
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