Finally, he exhaled and calmly explained that, all his life, people had belittled his intellectual capabilities, and this flash of cleverness proved that, even after being kicked and punched and deprived of sleep and food, he had his wits about him. Although this wasn’t the first time that Harry and I had argued, it felt different it felt as if we were hurtling toward some kind of decisive rupture, in part because Harry was no longer saying anything. Harry insisted that this part of the book end with a witty comeback he hurled back at the captor, but Moehringer disagreed. He is beaten, starved, stripped, and-at one point-the pretend captors hurl insults at him, one of which is a 'vile dig' at his late mother, Princess Diana. The two reached an impasse over a specific section in the book, in which Harry is in the midst of a brutal military training that simulates the experience of being kidnapped and tortured by terrorists. Moehringer recalls a late night Zoom session with Harry to go over the book's edits.

The essay illuminates his close relationship with the royal, from the fight that almost ended their professional relationship to what it was like to temporarily live with Harry and Duchess Meghan in their California home. Moehringer-also the author of The Tender Bar-opened up about writing the book with the Duke of Sussex for two years. In a new essay published by the New Yorker, J. The ghostwriter for Prince Harry's tell-all memoir, Spare, is clearing the record.

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