He she; the other and the other.

On one side, William and Kate, Princes of Wales, the noble attribution that precedes accession to the British royal throne.

On the other, the brother Harry , wife Meghan Markle, titled of the Duchy of Sussex, an office of ancient prestige. but equally improbable heraldic promotion.

This is the premise of reading “Spare, the minor”, published in Italian by Mondadori, a highly anticipated bestseller already sold out in world bookshops.

The book is written by award-winning American journalist John Moehringer together with Duke of Sussex and, at least in intentions, rather than inviting the reader to a simplistic classification of the members of the British royal family in good and bad, it represents Harry's version of the events that influenced his training.

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“Spare”: five hundred pages of unpublished details at the Court of San Giacomo

Starting from this perspective, the over 500 pages of text offer a mine of unpublished details on family relationships at the court of San Giacomo.

But, "Spare", let's remember, is the work of the second son of Charles of England, and therefore the interpretation of the narrated is not achieved thanks to a process of attribution of the facts, but by subtracting the biased vision proposed by Meghan Markle's husband.

The editing of the volume, as recognized at the end of the final chapter, mobilized a large team of experts who urged Harry to dig into every episode of his life.

Starting with the genetic discrimination that accompanies him from birth, how to describe the author himself: “William, he's two years older than me, he was the Heir, I was the Reserve. I was the shadow, the backup, the plan B, a spare part. I didn't feel offended, I felt absolutely nothing. Who could blame a destiny carved in stone? Being a Windsor meant understanding what the immutable truths were."

This is just the beginning of a story that continues with the pain for the disappearance of his mother Diana, the relationship of his father Carlo with Camilla , youthful drug use, the Windsors' strained relationship with his wife Meghan Markle, the quarrels with brother William.

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“Spare”: a constant conflict with the past and awareness of one's limits

The final portrait that Harry proposes of himself is of a person in constant conflict with the past and who seems to have reached awareness of his own limits, especially after his marriage to the American bride, in the volume often present as an effect and not a cause of the new existence that “Spare”-Windsor has decided to live in the United States.

The reader will also notice some basic contradictions in Harry's version. Let's limit ourselves to the main ones.

The second son of Charles III would like to resume the relationship with his family but his exposition of the facts, to which the court of London obviously cannot reply for reasons of protocol, does not allow for the possibility of reconciliation, nor of reply and therefore of verification.

But still: the young Windsor regrets the impossibility of accessing the royal crown.

This is only partially true: the marriage of his brother William and the birth of his children has only pushed them away possibility of succession, but did not interrupt them.

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“Spare”: the constitutional monarchy as the conscience of the country antithetical to politicians

Furthermore, “Spare” seems to forget that even in the United Kingdom the monarchy is constitutional, that is: it has no direct role in government affairs.

The Crown of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, on the other hand, has the role of giving voice to the country's conscience towards career politicians, busy with the complexity of the day's issues and party alliances.

Why does this happen, the royal family must remain above the parts and be inspired, at least in intentions, by a model of harmony and dialogue, qualities that Harry with his biography for now seems to master thanks to the support of his overseas editorial consultants.

Let's not be surprised if in the future from “Spare” a television series will be made of which for the moment it is easy to imagine the names of the main protagonists in the two Dukes of Sussex residing in America.

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