Sparethe book of memories prince harry It is already a bestseller although it was only released on Tuesday.
Bookstores like Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and Powell’s announced that the Duke of Sussex’s autobiography broke pre-sales records. Luckily, on January 10 Spare it ranked first on Amazon’s best-seller list in the United States.
Harry’s memoirs were published a month after the premiere of the Netflix docuseries harry & meghan. The show logged 81 million viewing hours in its first four days alone.
“We always knew this book would fly, but it is exceeding even our highest expectations,” Transworld Penguin Random House CEO Larry Finlay said in a statement. “As far as we know, the only texts that have sold more on their first day are those starring the other Harry (Potter).”
According to Penguin Random House, In the shadow (as the book is called in Spanish), has sold 400 thousand copies so far between hardcover, electronic book and audio formats.
What is the Prince Harry book about?
The book is titled Sparewhich in Spanish means “Replacement”a word that alludes to the monarchical tradition of having an heir (in this case William) and a spare son (Harry) to avoid succession problems.
The official British channel BBC described the book as the “strangest portrait ever written by a member of royalty.” The company said that Spare shows “a deeply strange life, moving between the lack of glamor and the international jet set”.
The book gained worldwide attention for revealing his personal conflicts and accusations against other royals, including his father King Charles, stepmother Camilla and brother Prince William.
In SpareHarry talks about his grief after the death of his mother, Princess Diana, when he was just 12 years old, the use of cocaine and other drugs to cope, his life as an entrepreneur and even how he killed 25 Taliban fighters while serving in Afghanistan.
The royal family has not commented on the book.
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