![]() ![]() People browse books behind a copy of “Spare” by Britain’s Prince Harry at a stall at the 54th Cairo International Book Fair in Egypt’s capital on January 29, 2023. ![]() After he was hooded, dragged to an underground bunker, “beaten, frozen, starved, stripped and forced into excruciating stress positions,” one of his balaclava-wearing captors hurled a vile insult to him about his late mother, Princess Diana. As described in “Spare” and Moehringer’s essay, Harry was “captured” by pretend terrorists in a simulation to find out if he had the toughness to survive an actual capture on the battlefield. Harry thought he could do this by proving he had his “wits” about him during a particularly grueling moment in his life - in January 2012, when he, a British army captain, underwent a brutal military exercise before his second deployment to Afghanistan. The scene revealed something essential about Harry’s insecurities and motivations for writing the book, according to Moehringer’s essay: Harry wants to be taking seriously, he wants to be seen as “smart.” Moehringer opens up about a particularly combative scene between the two during the mostly friendly, but often intense two-year process of writing and editing the Duke of Sussex’s best-selling memoir, “Spare.” In a fascinating new essay for the New Yorker, Prince Harry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning ghostwriter J.R. ![]()
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