Royal Family News: 5 TMI Moments In Prince Harry’s Spare Memoir

British royal family news reveals that if Prince Harry resembles a leaky faucet in his memoir, it’s because he is a memory sieve. Nothing is too petty, personal, or private for him to hold back on or use discretion. Here are times he went TMI.

Royal Family News – Princess Diana had a Waterbed

For instance, he spills some delicate details about his late mother, Princess Diana. “I remembered mornings in Mummy’s apartment at Kensington Palace, the nanny waking Willy and me, helping us down to Mummy’s bedroom. I remembered that she had a waterbed, and Willy and I would jump up and down on the mattress, screaming, laughing, our hair standing up.”

Harry also finds it compelling to tell the reader what his mother ate for breakfast: “grapefruit and lychees, seldom drinking coffee or tea.”

The Description of Balmoral

Balmoral Castle was the sight of many significant family events and Harry takes the reader into this hallowed sanctum: “Balmoral. Closing my eyes, I can see the main entrance, the paneled front windows, the wide portico and three gray-black speckled granite steps leading up to the massive front door of whisky-colored oak, often propped open by a heavy curling stone and often manned by one red-coated footman, and inside the spacious hall and its white stone floor, with gray star-shaped tiles, and the huge fireplace with its beautiful mantel of ornately carved dark wood …”

Harry spills about the elevator Queen Elizabeth and her corgis used: “whenever Granny headed up to her bedroom on the second floor, corgis at her heels, she preferred the lift.”

Royal Family News – What the Royals Have With Them Always

Security for Harry since birth, means: “I’d never been allowed to go anywhere without three armed bodyguards.”

Lack of Physical Affection Among the Royals

Harry criticizes his family as non-huggers numerous times: “the older generation maintained a nearly zero-tolerance prohibition on all physical contact. No hugs, no kisses, no pats. Now and then, maybe a light touching of cheeks…on special occasions.”

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Royal Family News – The Court Circular is a “self-reported joke”

The Court Circular is the official ledger of official royal engagements. This innocuous document is “sinister” to Harry.

Harry writes in Spare, “certain family members had become obsessed, feverishly striving to have the highest number of official engagements recorded in the Circular each year, no matter what, and they’d succeeded largely by including things that weren’t, strictly speaking, engagements, recording public interactions that were mere blips, the kinds of things Willy and I wouldn’t dream of including.”

FYI: Princess Anne is usually named the hardest working royal each year.

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