Prince Harry’s autobiography ‘Spare’, which was scheduled to be launched on January 10, was leaked on Thursday after a Spanish-language model of the memoir mistakenly went on sale.

Though the e-book was hurriedly withdrawn from cabinets in Spain, a few of the copies have been obtained by the media and key revelations have been made public.

Here are a few of the key claims and revelations made by Prince Harry within the memoir:

Harry claims William bodily attacked him

Prince Harry in his e-book claimed that he was bodily “attacked” by his older brother Prince William during an argument in 2019 amid tensions in their relations because of his marriage to Meghan Markle.

“He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me,” the Guardian quotes Harry’s book as saying. “I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me.”

The brothers had physical fights when younger

During the fight the two brothers had in 2019, Harry said William urged him to hit back, citing fights they had as children.

However, Harry refused and William left before returning, looking regretful and apologising.

The brothers call each other “Willy” and “Harold”

Harry wrote in his memoir that he gave his brother a glass of water after the fight and said, “Willy, I can’t speak to you when you’re like this.”

“I didn’t attack you, Harold,” responded William — whom Harry calls “Willy” — using a nickname for his brother, whose birth name is Henry.

William Called Meghan “difficult” and “rude”

Harry wrote that in a disagreement within the kitchen of his London residence in 2019, William known as his spouse Meghan Markle “difficult,” “rude” and “abrasive,” before tackling him to the ground as the pair continued to argue.

Harry told him he was parroting the press narrative about his wife.

Prince Harry says he killed 25 in Afghanistan

Prince Harry also acknowledged killing 25 people during his time as an Apache helicopter pilot in Afghanistan. The 38-year-old Duke of Sussex served two tours of duty against the Taliban, first as a forward air controller calling in airstrikes in 2007-2008, then flying the attack helicopter in 2012-2013.

He said he was neither proud nor ashamed of doing so and described eliminating the targets as like removing “chess pieces” from a board.

‘Took cocaine but didn’t like it’

Prince Harry also admitted in his new memoir to taking cocaine aged 17, but says “it wasn’t very fun”. The experience appears to have come after his father, King Charles III, took Harry to a drug rehabilitation clinic to meet recovering addicts, when he was found to have been drinking underage and smoking marijuana.

At the time, the revelations earned him the nickname “Harry Pothead” in the British tabloids but Charles’s actions were widely praised as responsible parenting.

Harry told his therapist about the fight before he told Meghan

After the fighting incident, Harry said that William later returned to the scene, “looking regretful, and apologised” and asked him not to tell Meghan that he had “attacked” him.

Harry wrote that he did not immediately tell his wife, but called the therapist. However, Meghan noticed the “scrapes and bruises”, forcing Harry to tell her about the attack.

Harry claims William and Kate encouraged him to wear the Nazi uniform

Harry was 20-year-old when the Sun newspaper published a front-page photo of him dressed as a Nazi soldier with a red armband emblazoned with a big swastika.

The picture was taken at a costume party with a “Native and Colonial” theme in 2005, the place William was additionally a visitor and was wearing a selfmade lion outfit.

In his memoir, he claimed that he phoned William and Kate to ask them whether or not he ought to put on a pilot’s uniform or a Nazi one for the flamboyant gown occasion and the couple mentioned the latter, US web site Page Six reported. And the 2 howled with laughter when he went residence and tried it on for them.

Heir and ‘Spare’

The e-book additionally talked about Harry’s a long time of disenchantment together with his privileged, scrutinized and constrained royal life. In it he alludes to the e-book’s title, recounting the alleged phrases of his father, then Prince Charles, to his mom, Princess Diana, on the day of his delivery, “Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an heir and a spare — my work is done.”

While William was destined from delivery to be king, Harry, who’s fifth in line to the throne behind his brother and William’s three youngsters, has typically appeared to wrestle with the extra ambiguous position of “spare.”

Harry reveals second he realized of Diana’s loss of life

In his memoir, Harry additionally wrote about his mom Diana’s loss of life within the automobile accident. He mentioned that King Charles sat on the top of his mattress at Balmoral Castle and informed him, “My dear son, mum has had a car accident.”

The duke claims his father didn’t hug him and that he later “felt like a politician” as he greeted members of the general public within the wake of her loss of life, based on the Sun.

Harry and William ‘begged’ Charles to not marry Camilla

Harry claimed that he and Prince William informed Charles they might welcome the now-Queen Consort into the household on the situation he didn’t marry her and “begged” him not to take action. The Duke alleges that his father didn’t reply to their pleas.

Charles Pleaded The Sons to Stop Fighting

The brothers’ father, King Charles III, pleaded together with his sons to cease preventing at a gathering after the funeral of his father, Prince Philip, in April 2021.

“Please, boys. Don’t make my closing years a distress,” he told them, according to the memoir.

Harry also describes the “secret meeting” as resembling a duel fairly than reconciliation.

William claimed he didn’t know why Harry had exiled himself within the United States, Harry writes, whereas his father “was taking a look at me with an expression that mentioned, ‘me neither'”.

Losing Virginity

Harry recounts losing his virginity in a field behind a busy pub, to an “older lady” who “liked horses very a lot”.

But he says it was a “humiliating episode” and rued it occurring within the open, the place they may have been seen.

(With inputs from companies)

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