The Nemira publishing house announced that it had sold out the entire 15,000 print run of Prince Harry’s memoirs, Spare (Spare), which caused a loud scandal in Great Britain, and would urgently print a second print run in honor of the memory. demand, reports news.ro.

Reserve, the memoir of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, was published internationally on January 10, 2023 in 16 languages.

The book registered 2,000 pre-orders before its release, and sold over 3,000 copies in both hardcover and digital formats on the day of release in bookstores and online. The book is available in bookstores across the country, subject to availability, as well as on audiotribe.ro in audiobook format (read by actor Alexandru Ungur) and e-book.

The book came out a month after the premiere of the Netflix documentary series “Harry and Meghan”, in which the brother of Prince William and his wife Meghan Markle made a series of new allegations against the British royal family.

“Reserve” has a selling price of 99 lei in Romania.

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The fastest selling book

Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare, is the fastest-selling non-fiction book in history, Sky News reported on Tuesday, citing the publisher, which said it had sold 400,000 copies so far in hardcover, e-book and audio editions.

Excerpts from a new book obtained by British media show Prince Harry described in it what would have been a physical attack on William, now Prince of Wales, when their relationship soured over his marriage to actress Meghan Markle. Describing the row at their London home in 2019, Harry says William called Meghan “difficult” and “rude”.

The confrontation escalated, Harry writes, until William “grabbed me by the collar, ripped off my necklace and … threw me on the floor.”

The title of the book comes from an old saying in royal and aristocratic circles: the first son is the heir to titles, power and wealth, while the second is therefore a fallback in case something happens to the first born.

Incendiary revelations were made by Prince Harry in his book

Harry’s feeling of being a ‘stance’ is the theme of his book, with chapters describing his childhood, school years, his career in the British Army, his relationship with his parents and brother and life with Meghan at court, his wedding and marriage. to their own experience as parents.

Early on, Harry talks about how his father, now King Charles, said to his wife, Princess Diana, on Harry’s birthday: “Great! Now you have given me an heir and a reserve, my work is done.”

Elsewhere in his book, Harry blames the entire royal family from afar. He talks about the scandalous photos of him in a Nazi officer’s suit when he was 20, insisting that William and his wife Kate Middleton encouraged him to choose the suit.

He also tells how he learned of his mother Lady Diana’s death, how he objected to his father’s remarriage to Camilla, whom he saw as an “evil stepmother”, and claims to have killed 25 Taliban fighters while a Royal Air Force helicopter pilot in Afghanistan.

The “spare” caused horror and anger in the UK

The book has been widely criticized and ridiculed by British tabloids and the media, who have accused Harry of trying to destroy the British royal family after he moved to the United States with Markle and their son Archie in early 2020, when they left royal duties.

Catherine Mayer, King Charles’ biographer, said the tome could pose problems for the British monarchy, but the “absolutely catastrophic” consequences of the attacks on the Duke of Sussex’s royal family behavior were being ignored.

It argues that anger over allegations of racism, misogyny and wealth in the royal family could undermine public consent for the monarchy.

“This is probably what will mark the beginning of the end of the monarchy and that is what we should be talking about. This is important given the current lack of trust in the state and the rise of right-wing politics,” Mayer said.

“This is not just a celebrity story. We are talking about the status of a significant institution of the state, with significant powers and significant funding from taxpayers, so regardless of whether you are supporters of the monarchy or anti-monarchy, it deserves serious consideration,” she emphasized.

In an interview broadcast by ITV on Sunday, two days before the book was published, Harry defended his writing, saying it was “necessary” to establish “historical facts”.

“After 38 years of watching my own story told by many people with deliberate distortion and manipulation, it felt like the right time to reclaim my story and tell it myself,” he told British television.