British royal family news reveals that Prince Harry uses his memoir, Spare, as a weapon against his family. No one seems untargeted, with his brother the heir, William, getting the brunt of Harry’s unresolved anger. But his father King Charles is also in his crosshairs. Here are several times Harry names and shames his own father.
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Royal Family News – Harry’s Father King Charles
Harry shares that Charles still loves his teddy bear and does daily headstands in his underwear to deal with back pain. We also learn that Harry calls him Pa and Charles calls his son darling boy.
Royal Family News – Charles Is Not A Hugger
Harry’s memoir also vents spleen that after Princess Diana’s death, Charles didn’t hug him.
He wrote: “He wasn’t great at showing emotions under normal circumstances, how could he be expected to show them in such a crisis. But his hand did fall once more on my knee and he said: It’s going to be OK. That was quite a lot for him. Fatherly, hopeful, kind. And so very untrue.”
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Royal Family News – Charles Not The Best Father
Harry shares how Charles dealt with being a single parent: “Pa was never made for that. To be fair, he tried. Evenings, I’d shout downstairs: Going to bed, Pa! He’d always shout back cheerfully: I’ll be there shortly, darling boy! True to his word, minutes later he’d be sitting on the edge of my bed. He never forgot that I didn’t like the dark, so he’d gently tickle my face until I fell asleep.”
Elsewhere, Harry writes of Charles’s inability to talk about his emotions. Harry says, “He had trouble communicating, trouble listening, trouble being intimate face-to-face. On occasion, after a long multi-course dinner, I’d walk upstairs and find a letter on my pillow. The letter would say how proud he was of me for something I’d done or accomplished. I’d smile, place it under my pillow, but also wonder why he hadn’t said this moments ago, while seated directly across from me.”
We also learn that Charles taught him to drive by holding him on his lap. And that Charles was ok with him not going to college: “see the world, darling boy! Have adventures.”
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Royal Family News – Charles Dragged As A Father
When Harry humiliated himself by parading around in a Nazi costume, and is photographed nude in Las Vegas, Charles keeps his cool saying, “Darling boy, how could you be so foolish?” Charles then sent his son to meet with Britain’s Chief Rabbi.
Royal Family News – Charles Childhood
Harry outs his dad’s love for his teddy bear: “Teddy went everywhere with Pa. It was a pitiful object, with broken arms and dangly threads, holes patched up here and there. It looked, I imagined, like Pa might have after the bullies had finished with him. Teddy expressed eloquently, better than Pa ever could, the essential loneliness of his childhood.”
Royal Family News – Charles Fatherly Routine
Harry has no issue dishing on Charles’s eccentricities remembering that Charles listened to his portable CD player in the bathtub, and, “when we heard him in the hall we knew it was close to eight.”
Harry remembers, too, that Charles, “was always sniffing things. Food, roses, our hair. He must’ve been a bloodhound in another life.” Lucky Charles, being exposed to the world by a disgruntled son out for revenge.
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