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From the beginning, just from the
title, I knew I'd relate to, find common ground with Prince Harry's emotional
life experiences. I could see so much pain in his mother's eyes when she was
alive, long before I had the slightest understanding of trauma and mental
health issues. Harry resonates Princess Diana's personal fortitude, her will to
fight for, stand up for what he believes. I see so much pain in Harry, yet,
there's a resilience, a hope. Harry embodies the idea of asking "what
happened to you" rather than "what's wrong with you." I hope his
trauma and mental health story empowers others.
Addendum:
What a beautiful voice telling his
truth-truths that so many of us have long suspected, but also that many of us
relate to, identify with.
I still love his mother, Princess
Diana, to this day, and after watching her life from a distance, seeing the
horrible life circumstances she was subjected to- but which she also chose to
live, since her sons were young~ now, Prince Harry and his beautiful life
partner, Duchess Meghan, deal with a cruel and brutal world comprised of a
glutonous public, a barbaric media industry, and the horrid betrayal of a
racist colonial family and monarchy.
Queen Elizabeth II, and now King
Charles, have LONG had the ability to evolve the status quo, to show love and
compassion, to stand by their own kin, son, grandson, and the love of his
life....I cannot fathom that sense of betrayal....
except, well, I can, based on my own
life experience...makes me wonder if Charles is truly Harry's biological
father, since it is hard to fathom a true father mistreating his own blood this
way, so tragically, so calculatingly ruthless.
Now, Prince Harry does make clear that
staff and courtiers have also committed these horrible betrayals. Indeed, he
describes throughout the book incessant, ongoing, lifelong mistreatment at the
behest of staff and workers within the palace- who were there to SERVE their
country, NOT destroy one of its sons....
As I recall Princess Margaret's life
(Prince Harry's paternal aunt), I have come to coI can also comprehend, sadly,
the incredible betrayal by the institution-the perpetual lack of compassion,
protection, caring, and more, for Prince Harry and his family. All was NOT ok
prior to meeting the love of his life, Duchess Meghan, and it certainly became
worse after. I am ashamed of humanity, for a humanity that clearly can't stand
humans or humanity...
This abject and self-abasing cruelty
bestowed upon Harry and to be sure, Meghan and their children has caused so
much pain - evident to the very last page; though, writing Spare may have been
somewhat cathartic on some level, the effort to get beyond this pain, these
traumas, this lifelong betrayal, will not come easy, or without a price... a
price his children will also pay on some level, thanks to Queen Elizabeth II
and King Charles for putting politics and image over family. How very
narcissistic of you.
And to Prince William: there was a
time when I thought you were your mother's son. I was mistaken; you are the
monarchy's pawn. Nothing more.
In the end, Prince Harry gives ME hope
that I too can recover from complex trauma, maybe even regain some positive
lost memories.
