The sale of the book was surrounded by controversy, at the height of the facts that the book recounts. In the UK, the first copies were sold shortly after midnight in some bookstores that opened especially for the occasion, but much of the content leaked last week when it was mistakenly released early in Spain.
But in addition to the editorial success that the work generated in the first hours of sale in bookstores, it also had an impressive result in the ebook version: it was ranked as the best-selling title on Amazon in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Germany and Canada.
sparetranslated into Spanish as “In the shadow”, actually refers to a family anecdote that accounts for the place that the royal framework had reserved for Harry. The prince tells in the first pages of the book that King Carlos III, when he was born, said to Princess Diana: “Wonderful! Now you have given me an heir and a spare” (that means ‘spare’).
“The heir and the spare: they said it without judgment, but also without ambiguity. I was the shadow, the secondary actor, plan B. […] My mission was to offer a source of distraction, entertainment and, in case of need, a spare part. All of this was made abundantly clear to me from an early age and then regularly reinforced,” Harry describes the historical role assigned to him.
In the leak of the text prior to the sale of the copies, Harry’s experiences with cocaine as a teenager, details of his sexual debut with an older woman in a pub and his performance in the war were also disseminated. against the Taliban in Afghanistan, but also the fights with his brother, Prince William, and the tensions between their wives, Meghan Markle Y Kate Middleton.
The text was written for a year and “with four hands” together with the journalist J. R. Moehringera ghostwriter with experience in the autobiographies of celebrities: he wrote those of the tennis player André Agassithe celebrated “Open”, and collaborated with the co-founder of Nike, Phil Knightin yours.
Source: Ambito
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