Keely Browning
Professor Hollar
ENG 1302
08 April 2023
Spare
Imagine being a prince of an entire kingdom, but it's not yours to inherit. This is the life of Prince Harry as he walks through his life in the book, Spare. The memoir walks through Harry’s trials, griefs, love, and family as the reader goes through a journey of a member inside the Royal Family.
Spare documents the life of Prince Harry, the prince of England, son of Diana and King Charles. It explores the trauma he endured and the challenges he faced, but how it created him into who he was today. He writes about his grief with his mother. He writes about the battle of Heir vs Spare with his brother. He writes about the hardship of his relationship with his father. He writes about his anger towards the tabloids and the British press and how he feels like they have ruined him. The memoir is written with such emotion that Harry tries to portray to his readers, and how all he wants is privacy and freedom for his family. The memoir walks
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In British culture, the British people believed they are entitled to the Royal Family. The agreement with the Family is that the citizens will pay tax dollars to the monarchy and in return the Family is up for all sorts of coverage no matter what, basically a symbol of Britain that everyone in the country gets to have an opinion on. This causes rifts between all of the members of the family because everyone is vying for the front page cover, wanting to be seen as doing the most engagements or sponsoring the most charities, etc. The press has all of the power in their hands, unless (very rarely) the Family decides against. Harry states that when William and Kate had their children, he “denied them unfettered access to his family. He’d refused several times to trot Kate out like a prized racehorse, and that was considered a bridge too far” (Harry