Things remain, uhm, tense between Prince Harry and the royal family in the wake of the Duke of Sussex dropping a tell-all memoir last year, and apparently, the palace is worried a sequel could be in the works. However, it's important to note that a spokesperson for the Sussexes previously denied that he'd signed a multi-book deal.
Nevertheless, according to royal biographer Robert Hardman's new book, Buckingham Palace is concerned that Harry left out "large chunks" of events that happened following his 2018 royal wedding to Meghan Markle.
"For the Palace, the most worrying aspect of the book was the omission of large chunks of more recent events," Hardman writes, per the Telegraph. "It did not go unnoticed that Harry and Meghan’s wedding, their married life and their eventual departure from the royal world amounted to a small part—less than a fifth—of Prince Harry’s memoir. This suggested either a sequel or, perhaps a memoir by Meghan in due course."
Harry previously told the Telegraph that the first draft of Spare was 800 pages, and there were several memories he wasn't willing to commit to print.
"On the scale of things I could include for family members, there were certain things that–look, anything I’m going to include about any of my family members, I’m going to get trashed for," he explained. "I knew that walking into it. But it’s impossible to tell my story without them in it, because they play such a crucial part in it. And also because you need to understand the characters and personalities of everyone within the book," he added.
"But there are some things that have happened, especially between me and my brother, and to some extent between me and my father, that I just don’t want the world to know. Because I don’t think they would ever forgive me. Now you could argue that some of the stuff I’ve put in there, well, they will never forgive me anyway. But the way I see it is, I’m willing to forgive you for everything you’ve done, and I wish you’d actually sat down with me, properly, and instead of saying I’m delusional and paranoid, actually sit down and have a proper conversation about this, because what I’d really like is some accountability. And an apology to my wife."
