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A copy of the Spanish version of Prince Harry's autobiography: Harry is said to have used cocaine when he was 17
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Prince Harry's autobiography »Spare« will be released on January 10 – actually.
But the book was probably wrongly available from a bookstore chain in Spain as early as Thursday.
According to their own statements, several British media have obtained a copy and are now quoting extensively from it.
The "Guardian" had already reported on Thursday morning that Harry describes a fight between the two brothers in the book in which William is said to have pushed him to the ground.
What else is in the book?
Harry is said to have feared Camilla as a "wicked stepmother".
Decades ago, Prince Harry, along with Prince William, pleaded with his father Charles not to marry Camilla, according to the book's reports.
William and he "begged" their father not to remarry, Harry writes in his memoirs.
That's what the "Sun" and the "Daily Mail" reported on Thursday.
Harry feared Camilla as a "bad stepmother".
Harry says about his first official meeting with Camilla that he prepared for it like an injection.
"Close your eyes and you won't even notice it," writes the 38-year-old, according to the British media.
However, Camilla was "bored" and took the meeting as a formality as Harry, as a non-heir apparent, did not stand in her way.
Now King Charles III, 74, had an affair with Camilla while married to Diana.
The couple divorced in 1996.
Diana is the mother of William and Harry.
She died in 1997 after a car accident in Paris.
Charles married Camilla in 2005. Over the years, Camilla has become increasingly popular with the British public.
Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September, personally arranged for Camilla, 75, to bear the title "Queen Consort" after her death.
Harry is said to refer to his brother as his "nemesis" in the book
In an excerpt from a television interview with the US television magazine Good Morning America, presenter Michael Strahan asked Prince Harry, referring to Prince William: "You call your brother your 'beloved brother' and your 'arch enemy'.
Those are harsh words.
What do you mean by that?” Harry replies that there has always been a competition between the two, based on the fact that one – William – is heir to the throne and Harry himself is the “spare”. ).
The full interview with Harry is due out on Monday.
Harry reportedly took cocaine to 'feel something'
According to British media, Harry writes in the book that he has used cocaine several times.
It is said to have been offered to him for the first time when he was 17 on a hunting trip, and it "wasn't much fun".
He tried the drug because he was a 17-year-old "willing to do almost anything to upset the existing order around me."
His main goal was "to feel something.
To be different.” When questioned by royal officials about his drug use, he is said to have lied.
Prince William is said to have convinced Harry to dress up as a Nazi
In 2005, the British gossip newspaper The Sun published on its front page a picture of Prince Harry at a costume party, wearing a swastika armband.
The autobiography is said to now state that his brother William encouraged him to dress up as a Nazi.
This is reported by the gossip portal »Page Six«, which, according to its own statements, has this excerpt from the book.
Harry is said to write in the book that he called his brother and asked him whether he should go as a pilot or as a Nazi: "I called Willy and Kate and asked them what I should wear.
'The Nazi uniform,' they said.' When he tried on the uniform and showed it to them, they are said to have laughed.
“They thought it was hilarious.
Much worse than my brother's outfit.
Much more ridiculous.
And, again, that's what it was all about."
The prince claims to have contacted his dead mother
Harry is said to write in the book that in order to contact his mother, he enlisted the services of a woman who said she had "special powers."
The Guardian reports.
The woman is said to have told him that she had contacted Diana and that he was living the life "that she wanted for you".
Harry writes, according to the Guardian, that he realized it was "most likely hocus-pocus," but he met the woman because good friends recommended her to him.
Harry apparently succumbed to the mumbo-jumbo: "As soon as we sat together," Harry is said to write, "I felt the energy around her."
The woman told him that she too felt an energy around him and that his mother was with him "right now".
His neck got warm and his eyes filled with tears, Harry should continue to write.
King Charles III
is said to have made "sadistic" jokes about his paternity
In a passage from the book, which Page Six claims is available, Harry is said to have written that his father - now King Charles III.
- made "sadistic" jokes about not being Harry's father.
After Harry's birth, it has been speculated that Charles is not Harry's father, but Diana's lover, Major James Hewitt.
Charles apparently poked fun at Harry: 'Pa loved telling stories and it was one of the best in his repertoire.
He always ended them with a plethora of hypothetical musings: Who knows if I'm really the Prince of Wales?
Who knows if I'm even your real father?'
Afterwards, Harry is said to write, his father laughed out loud, "although it was an impressively bad joke" at the rumors surrounding Hewitt.
Harry claims to have killed 25 Taliban in Afghanistan
Sky News reports excerpts from the book dealing with Harry's operations in Afghanistan.
He spent ten years in the army, including two frontline deployments in Afghanistan.
"Spare" states: "I could always tell exactly how many enemy combatants I had killed.
And it seemed important to me not to be afraid of this number.
Among the many things I learned in the armed forces, one of the most important was that I am responsible for my own actions.«
He continues: »So my number: twenty-five.
It wasn't something that gave me satisfaction, but I wasn't ashamed either."
He continues: "Of course I would have preferred not to have that number on my military resume or in my head, but I would also have preferred to live in a world without Taliban, in a world without war."
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