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Old 11.01.2023, 20:29
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Re: [Prince] Harry and Meghan

https://www.20min.ch/story/wer-weiss...n-824523949086

Or they burn it?

Article will probably changes when they update that. Some people seem to use the book in their wood stoves.
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Or they burn it?

Article will probably changes when they update that. Some people seem to use the book in their wood stoves.
While making Harry rich?



It's not like they can stop new prints. I think some of the public is currently going through the second phase of the denial-anger-bargaining-depression-acceptance cycle.
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Or they burn it?

Article will probably changes when they update that. Some people seem to use the book in their wood stoves.
It's too full of shit to burn properly
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Old 11.01.2023, 23:06
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Re: [Prince] Harry and Meghan

Well we are certainly seeing the value of having a Royal family these days.

- A source of income journalists and news media
- A source of income for so called experts, who if they are to be believed have access to and share the thoughts of people they at best know slightly
- A source of distraction for the voters to keep their attention of the running of the country

A this point the story so far is of an adulterous king caught with his fingers in the till selling titles, being hauled over the coals by a son whom the family has mistreated. And who in turn is hell bent on getting his revenge and making a bit of money along the way. In another time, Shakespeare could have made a great play out of this material.

It really is amazing who much crap the British public are willing to put up with.
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Re: [Prince] Harry and Meghan

From The Guardian.

‘I was alone. Abandoned. With only a hundred million in the bank’ – Spare, digested by John Crace

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Prince Harry’s memoir is the UK’s fastest-selling nonfiction book ever. Too busy to read it? All the love, rancour, drugs and petty fights are here ...
Poor Harry: even Americans are getting bored with his tell-all tour

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Among my social group in New York, there is a marked difference between the attitude towards Spare of English and Australian friends – obsessive, feverish, genuinely shocked that Harry has been tempted quite so far out on to the ledge – and the uninterested and mildly baffled response of Americans. Most of them, in my experience, have gone on a journey from a near-universal “good for you” when Harry and Meghan moved out here, to a taken-aback “wow, this guy is really going for it”, to something, this week, closer resembling boredom. Meanwhile, Brits are snapping back and forth with “the man’s literally gone mad”. ...
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Old 12.01.2023, 16:09
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Re: [Prince] Harry and Meghan

Prince Harry has set a record with his tell-all memoir "Spare," after the English language version sold more than 1.4 million copies in its first day of publication.

The bumper sales included all formats of the book -- paper, audio and electronic -- in the US, Canada and the UK, -- seems the US is not so bored as claimed.
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Prince Harry has set a record with his tell-all memoir "Spare," after the English language version sold more than 1.4 million copies in its first day of publication.

The bumper sales included all formats of the book -- paper, audio and electronic -- in the US, Canada and the UK, -- seems the US is not so bored as claimed.
With headlines like this in the Daily Mail today, it‘s hardly surprising:

'This is a Freudian nightmare': Audiobook listeners left horrified as Prince Harry says he felt like his 'mother was right there in the room' as he applied the Elizabeth Arden cream she loved to his frostbitten penis
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Re: [Prince] Harry and Meghan

I think spare is where he's gone, not what he was born to be.
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Re: [Prince] Harry and Meghan

Y’know? I’m getting pretty bored with this thread. Henry who?
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Y’know? I’m getting pretty bored with this thread. Henry who?
I was never interested in this subject. But as it‘s being force-fed by every international boulevard and serious press from the Daily Mail to Tages Anzeiger, NY Times etc. etc. etc. it has somehow become something impossible to ignore.

It brings me back slowly to those days when I used to be sure to scroll my screen past any photo of a certain orange faced US President, for fear of it inducing a gag reflex.

Whatever the reasons are that people are buying it (guaranteed not me) - no arguing that the short-term PR has worked.
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Y’know? I’m getting pretty bored with this thread. Henry who?

It's Harry, Bowlie, not Henry, do please try and stay on the same page......
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It's Harry, Bowlie, not Henry, do please try and stay on the same page......
Henry Charles Albert David aka Harold by his beloved brother, apparently.
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Henry Charles Albert David aka Harold by his beloved brother, apparently.

Wow, that wasn't in the book was it ?
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Wow, that wasn't in the book was it ?
I doubt he actually knows …
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Wow, that wasn't in the book was it ?
Forever to be known as Harold and Willy now.
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Forever to be known as Harold and Willy now.
Personally I think that Di should have swapped their names. Chilly Willy seems really appropriate, you could then even start a new science and belief based on whether we are governed by our names during our lives
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Re: [Prince] Harry and Meghan

Spare the Hare!

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P.S. Spare in Italian means "shoot".
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With headlines like this in the Daily Mail today, it‘s hardly surprising:

'This is a Freudian nightmare': Audiobook listeners left horrified as Prince Harry says he felt like his 'mother was right there in the room' as he applied the Elizabeth Arden cream she loved to his frostbitten penis
I actually feel sorry for him.
His mother died when he was relatively young and he will always be the second son.
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I actually feel sorry for him.
His mother died when he was relatively young and he will always be the second son.
Add that to being born into the Royal family and I have a tendency to agree with you.
He has made a total pr**k of himself but it can’t have been an easy upbringing for him.
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I actually feel sorry for him.
His mother died when he was relatively young and he will always be the second son.
Likewise my younger daughter, she will always be the second and her mother died when she was 10.

However, I fail to see your point.

Harry's a douchebag, my daughter's not.

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