38-year-old Prince Harry has crossed all limits. Cast a terrible stain upon his race. He has written quite a few revelations about the royal family in his memoir Spare, but perhaps the most controversial of them is that the Duke of Sussex claims he was only born to be an organ donor for Prince William if something happened to him. It was at this moment in the book that the world media, including the New York Post, paid attention, BLITZ reported.
“I was a shadow, a support, a plan B. I was born in case something happened to Willie,” he wrote of his 40-year-old brother and current heir to the throne, William.
According to him, he understood that his role was to insure his brother or to provide him with “a spare part if needed”.
“Maybe kidneys. Blood transfusion. A piece of bone marrow,” he wrote.
In his memoirs, the prince also revealed a long-known tradition in the royal family: the first and second heirs to the throne never fly on the same flight, “because there should be no chance of the first and second in line to the throne being destroyed.”
“But no one cared who I was traveling with. The spare could always be spared. All this was clearly explained to me from the beginning of my life and regularly reinforced afterwards,” he said of his apparently dubious position in the family.
Harry complained that the words “heir” and “backup” were not just what the press called them, but were also used as abbreviations by his royal family, including his mother, the late Princess Diana, and even his grandmother, the late Queen Elizabeth II. In particular, Harry recalls that Prince Charles congratulated him on his birth with a joke: “Wonderful! Now you have given me an Heir and a Substitute – my work is done.”
Despite a spate of discontent over his second place in the family, the Duke continues to maintain that he is comfortable with this state of affairs.
“I wasn’t offended, I didn’t feel any of that. Every boy and girl imagines themselves as a prince or princess at least once. So, spare or not, it really wasn’t such a bad time to be,” he admitted.
