Review: Spare

Spare by Prince Harry
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

If your birth family is or was dysfunctional, whether your life was one of privilege like the prince's or not, you will immediately identify and recognize the truth of this memoir. The book is honest emotion about a toxic family: there is tragedy, happiness, confusion . . . all the things that we know from our pasts. Prince Harry becomes a person here, while his brother and father become stereotypical British royals who may not know why they behave as they do, but damn it, they're gonna do it.

I recognized the toxicity of the Murdoch media machine. We have seen it in action here in the US with Trump's lies somehow becoming truth. Why is it surprising that his media business in the UK is any different? Probably the US Murdoch outlets copied the UK outlets because of the profitability of the actions and words of the reporters.

The story of Harry and Meghan's romance and family is wonderful, even though they are beset with unimaginable stress because of the media. Meghan has found strategies (with her career and in her life choices) to withstand those stresses and thrive. I doubt I would have survived. I wish them all well. Prince Harry is right: racism is racism. His family in the UK seems wedded to denials of that. They have to find their own way through that, if possible. I doubt that anything Harry and Meghan say will transform that family's defense into true apologies and amends.

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