Certainly, with Oprah and CBS This Morning’s Gayle King being friends with the couple, those bookings will be widely awaited. More sympathetic commentators will be scheduled by Harry and his hardworking phalanx of publicists with certain outlets, part of the robust marketing campaign engineered by the publisher. Prime among them will be Fox broadcaster Piers Morgan, who was fired by his former network, ITV, for not publicly apologizing for expressing his opinions about Meghan Markle on air when in fact his opinions were a central reason for his and his program’s immense popularity. Some of Harry’s and Meghan’s more vocal detractors in England will be quick off the mark, on air and in print. We can look forward to much of the same breathless television prancing that attends Prince Harry and Meghan Markle whatever they do or wherever they go, both pro and con. Naturally, the book’s coverage will be global, and varied. Harry is particularly beloved in Europe for his Invictus Games in service of wounded military veterans, the next installment of which will be held in Düsseldorf, Germany, a few months after his book drops.

Spare will make an enormous splash, first, across America and the 54 countries of the Commonwealth, and secondly on the Continent, some of whose royal families are related to the Windsors, and whose people still look to the British royals as the preeminent noble family in Europe. That’s not to say that the memoir won’t have impact.

Harry has given Charles, particularly, a few solid years of practice-and Charles can take it. But Charles, and the lone heir in the cliche that the book’s title so eloquently evokes, William, have a kingdom to run and with it, more productive things to do than worry about how they’re being portrayed by Harry.

Those courtiers would be well within their rights to dread the first few weeks of the British press using the tome as a piñata.

To say that King Charles, Prince William, and/or their senior courtiers have been “dreading” the book is arguably an overstatement, with the possible exception of those courtiers whose direct mandates include spinning webs of positivity around any negative anecdotal flotsam coming off the book’s reviews or its publication date of January 10, 2023. Seven thousand miles east of Montecito, California, the proud use of the word as a derogatory noun-along with a few other words describing the book’s narrative in the promotional jacket copy, notably, the participle “unflinching”-will have caused some concern in Buckingham Palace about what’s between the endpapers.

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