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Harry’s controversial autobiography Spare is being sold for £14, not the recommended retail price of £28, in bookshops such as Waterstones and WH Smith as well as online at Amazon.  Spare was first leaked in Spain, where it mistakenly went on sale last week, and a host of revelations and private details about Harry’s life and family have since emerged.  Mr Jones said he believed Waterstones when the retailer said Spare had been one of its biggest pre-order titles of the past decade.  TalkTV Presenter Cristo Foufas has been reading the controversial memoir, and says "Harry milks everything out of every single situation to become more and more "woe is me!"'  

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Prince Harry's book and the explosive revelations within it are the only conversation in this week's episode of the Royal Tea.  His 'scathing' attacks on Queen Consort Camilla, the relationship with his father King Charles, why he's revealed so much and what a future with the House of Windsor might look like are all under the spotlight.   In our brand new Royal Tea studio royal commentator and TalkTV host Daisy McAndrew steps in for regular host Sarah Hewson and she is joined by royal historian and author of Elizabeth and Philip Dr Tessa Dunlop, the Royal Editor at the Evening Standard Robert Jobson and royal commentator Emily Andrews.

The Duke of Sussex has attacked the reputation of the Queen Consort describing her as “dangerous” and criticising her attempts to rehabilitate her “image” at his cost.  In a series of interviews to promote his controversial memoirs, Harry gave an unflinching assessment of Camilla but also sympathised with the royal describing her as not an “evil stepmother”.  Harry attacked what he claimed was Camilla’s attempts to remake her image, after being cast as the “third person” in his parents’ marriage in an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America (GMA).  Speaking separately to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Harry said Camilla’s willingness to forge relationships with the British press made her “dangerous” and there would be “bodies left in the street because of that”.

Bookshops opened early on Tuesday as the Duke of Sussex’s controversial memoir hit the shelves – but queues were sparse following days of leaks ahead of the book’s publication.  Just one person was waiting outside Waterstones’ flagship branch in Piccadilly in central London when it opened at 8am.  Other royal fans had queued for midnight store openings, with a handful waiting outside WH Smith in London’s Victoria station to be one of the first to buy a copy.

he Duke of Sussex has branded the Prince of Wales his “arch nemesis” in his bombshell book, claiming he was physically attacked by William and knocked to the floor during a confrontation over the Duchess of Sussex.  Multiple leaks and the accidental sale of Harry’s memoir, Spare, in Spain resulted in a flurry of explosive revelations from the duke’s autobiography, due out next week.  Among them, Harry alleges it was William and the Princess of Wales who encouraged him to wear a Nazi uniform to a fancy dress party 2005 and “howled” with laughter when they saw it.

The broadcaster said the 90-minute programme, in which Harry was interviewed by Tom Bradby as part of the promotion for the duke’s memoir, Spare, ahead of its release on Tuesday, achieved the channel’s highest rating for a factual programme for more than a year.  In comparison, the second episode of series three of BBC One’s Happy Valley, which started at the same time – 9pm on Sunday – and lasted 60 minutes, had an average audience of 5.3 million TV viewers, according to the overnight figures.  Royal biographer Angela Levin says Prince Harry's behaviour is "inexcusable" and she "can't imagine how he's become so ridiculous."  

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The Prince of Wales has kept quiet about a string of explosive claims by his brother the Duke of Sussex “for the good of his family and the country”, friends have said.  William will not retaliate because he is “dignified and incredibly loyal”, one close friend of the pair reportedly told the Sunday Times.  “William is a sitting duck because Harry knows he isn’t going to retaliate. How many shots can you take at a sitting duck?” the source told the paper.  “It’s cruel, cowardly and so sad for William to keep taking the punches. He’s keeping quiet for the good of his family and the country.”  The same friend adds that William is “burning” on the inside.

Harry claimed “planting and leaking” from other members of the royal family meant, in his mind, they had written “countless books” and “millions of words … dedicated to trying to trash my wife”.  The duke also said in an interview with Tom Bradby on ITV that there was a “horrible reaction” from his family members when the Queen died.  He said his brother “raised some concerns” about his marriage to Meghan Markle and of how his father the King blamed himself for his son’s struggles, telling him “I should have got you the help you needed years ago”.  Speaking to TalkTV's Kevin O'Sullivan, Royal Biographer Angela Levin criticised Harry's biography as 'trash, rude and full of lies.'  

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The Duke of Sussex’s memoir Spare has sparked a protest in Afghanistan after he revealed that he killed 25 Taliban during his time in the British Army.  Around 20 students staged a protest at a university in Helmand province where Harry was stationed, the AP reported.  “We condemn (Harry’s) action which is against all norms of humanity,” one protester said.  Others carried posters showing Harry’s portrait with a red “x” across it.  Sayed Ahmad Sayed, a teacher at the university, condemned Harry for his role in UK military operations in Afghanistan.  “The cruelties which have been committed by Prince Harry, his friends or by anyone else in Helmand or anywhere in Afghanistan is unacceptable, cruel,” he said.