‘Idiot’: Londoners react to Prince Harry’s book
Prince Harry has claimed that his role as best man in brother Prince William’s wedding to Kate Middleton was a “bare-faced lie”, according to reports of his forthcoming memoir Spare.
The Duke of Sussex reportedly claims he was made to “act out” the role at the royal wedding to spare scrutiny into the lives of his brother’s two closest friends James Meade and Thomas Van Straubenzee, who gave the best man’s speech at the reception as opposed to Harry.
The revelations from his ghostwritten autobiography emerged in a flood of leaks on Thursday, including claims that his brother Prince William physically attacked him in a row about Meghan Markle and was involved in Harry’s decision to wear a Nazi costume, alongside admissions of taking cocaine and other illicit drugs.
Harry also reportedly addresses longstanding rumours surrounding the 1980s affair between his mother, Princess Diana and Major James Hewitt, which fuelled media speculation that King Charles was not Harry’s father.
The palace has declined to comment on the many allegations.
