The year kicked off with controversy thanks to the January 2023 publication of “Spare,” Prince Harry’s long-awaited memoir. To his credit, the Duke of Sussex had no qualms about dishing dirt — mainly about his older brother, Prince William. Most salaciously, the prince claimed that “Willy” — as Harry called him — had violently assaulted him. “He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor,” Harry wrote, as reported by Town & Country. “I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.”
Harry also shared explicit details of losing his virginity to an older woman, sampling cocaine, and alleging his father’s second wife, Camilla, regularly leaked unflattering stories about him to the British tabloids. He also addressed his infamous Nazi uniform at a costume party and admitted that he’d once experienced frostbite on his penis while visiting the North Pole. At one point, he was terrified it would no longer function; luckily, the royal “todger” suffered no long-term damage (via E! News).
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Perhaps most tellingly of all, though, Harry’s book depicted a distant family in which everyone communicated with each other through aides; he learned that his brother was marrying Kate Middleton, he wrote, from news reports. When his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, died in September 2022, he discovered the sad news via the BBC.
