The shocking claims made in Prince Harry’s ‘The Reserve’ – BBC News 中文

BBC News has yet to see the book, which is officially out on 10 January.

The Guardian saw the book. Prior to the official release date, the book was released in Spain, with the Spanish version seen by The Sun, Reuters and other outlets.

After the Guardian published its first story on Wednesday night, other allegations in the book have gone public.

According to the New York Post, Prince Harry said William and Kate (now the Prince and Princess of Wales) “laughed out loud” after seeing him at a party in Nazi uniform.

The book also chronicles Prince Harry’s drug use and his experience as an army helicopter pilot in the Afghanistan conflict.

Judging by the leaked excerpts, reconciliation and compromise are not on the agenda. There is a tone of unresolved sadness, offended and accusing to Harry’s accusations thus far.

It’s also very personal, about his immediate family, brother, stepmother, sister-in-law and father. There is a cloud of anger hanging over the allegations and it will be impossible to ignore the next time Prince Harry is seen with the royals.

With only a few months left until the coronation, the final stages of preparation could turn into a story about whether or not Harry will come.

Here are some key insights and revelations from the book:

The Sun reports that Harry wrote that he and William begged their father not to marry the current queen, Camilla, for fear she would become their wicked stepmother.

The Sun, which obtained a Spanish-language version of the book after it was unexpectedly published early, revealed that Prince Harry claimed he and his brother had met Camilla separately before she officially joined the royal family.

Prince Harry said he considered whether she would one day be his “evil stepmother,” but he and his brother were willing to forgive her “in their hearts” if it pleased King Charles.

However, the exact time of the meeting and Prince Harry’s age have not been revealed.

Prince Harry has described how his grief over the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales led him to seek help from a woman who ‘professed of having certain abilities’.

“Your mother said you lived the life she couldn’t live,” Harry said, the woman told him, “you lived the life she wanted you to live.”

Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997 when Harry was just 12 years old.

The Guardian said Prince Harry’s description of a conversation he had with his late mother was brief. No details were also provided on where or when the woman was met.

Prince Harry said his brother grabbed him by the collar, ripped off his necklace and threw him to the floor in his London cottage.

The book tells of an argument between the two that Harry believes was sparked by William’s comments to Meghan.

Harry wrote that his brother was critical of Meghan, with William describing her as ‘difficult’, ‘rude’ and ‘brutal’.

According to The Guardian, Harry said his brother was “parroting the media narrative” as the conflict escalated.

Prince Harry is said to have described what happened next, including what was claimed to be a physical altercation.

“He put down (a glass of water), called me by another name and walked over to me. It happened so fast. Very fast.”

“He grabbed me by the collar, snatched my necklace and threw me to the ground.”

“I fell on the dog bowl and the bowl broke under my back and the splinters went inside me. I stood there for a while, delirious, then got up and told him to get out.”

The New York Post reported that the memoir also said that in 2005, Prince William “laughed out loud” when he saw his brother in a Nazi uniform before a masquerade ball.

According to the New York Post, Prince Harry asked Prince William and his future wife, Kate, if he should wear a Nazi uniform or aviator outfits, and the two laughed and said he should wear a Nazi uniform.

When Prince Harry was 20, The Sun ran a front-page photo of him in uniform attending an “Aboriginal and colonial” themed masquerade ball.

Prince Harry has said he was offered cocaine at someone’s home when he was 17 and admitted to having smoked it on several other occasions, even though he didn’t feel like it.

“It wasn’t fun and it didn’t make me particularly happy like other people did, but it made me feel different and that was my main focus,” she wrote.

“I’m a 17-year-old boy ready to try anything that changes the established order.”

He also said he smoked marijuana in the toilets of Eton College as an elementary student while police officers, who acted as bodyguards, patrolled the building.

Prince Harry said while he was a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan from 2012 to 2013, he flew in six missions, all with casualties, but he believed they were reasonable.

“This statistic doesn’t make me proud, but it doesn’t make me ashamed either. I didn’t think of these 25 people as human beings when I found myself in the middle of an intense and chaotic battle. Pieces are taken off the board, bad guys are eliminated before they kill the good ones.”

Prince Harry says the royal family has dragged their feet over the date and venue of his and Meghan’s wedding.

She said that when she asked her brother about the possibility of getting married at Westminster Abbey or St. Paul’s Cathedral, William said it was impossible because those two churches were the wedding venues of Charles and Diana and William and Kate.

Harry said William suggested a small country church near Highgrove House in the Cotswolds.

Harry and Meghan were married in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle in May 2018.