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Spare by Prince Harry
4.0

This is a brutally honest memoir of Prince Harry's adolescence to adulthood and a scorching condemnation of the British tabloids and the royal family. If you've ever struggled with trying to picture the difference between the family Windsor and the royal family the institution, this clarifies how these two disjointed selves (one royal, one individual) live inside each member of the family and how the institution motivates them to make choices out of self-preservation as opposed to empathy & familial ties. While I do see this for what it is - a single POV on a situation we can never know the full truth of- Prince Harry makes a compelling case for what he & Meghan were forced to do. His exit was coming from the moment the palace began throwing him under the bus as a child, forcing him into this dichotomous, binary role of "bad boy" to prop up the second and third in line to the throne. I only give this four stars because some things felt truly TMI and extraneous. Also thank god this man found therapy!!!!