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- culture
- January 11, 2023
Harry's memoir is released: 8 surprising details
Harry gives a behind-the-scenes look at royal life in “Spare.”
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Two years later, in 2020, the couple announced their decision to step back from their senior working royal roles.
The Sussexes now live in California with their two children.
While the world may have seen his life as the bachelor prince as one of glamour and excitement, Harry said the reality was that he was folding laundry at home and watching the TV show \"Friends.\"
He also describes in \"Spare\" how he managed to run errands while in disguise, including shopping at discount retailer TK Maxx for his clothes.
Harry was not the only royal who watched TV shows at home.
He writes in his memoir that William and Kate were avid watchers of the TV show \"Suits,\" which Meghan starred in before marrying Harry.
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Despite the initial connection, Harry claims in \"Spare\" that William and Kate struggled to connect with and embrace Meghan.
When Harry wed Meghan in 2018, he was able to keep his beard -- but only after requesting permission from the queen.
\"A beard was thought by some to be a clear violation of protocol... forbidden in the British Army,\" Harry writes. \"But I was no longer in the Army and I desperately wanted to hang on to something that had become an effective check on my anxiety.\"
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While the queen approved and Harry ultimately kept his beard for the wedding, Harry writes that it brought on conflict with William.
\"You put her in an uncomfortable position, Harold! She had no choice but to say yes,\" Harry says William told him, referring to asking the queen.
The dustup resulted in a weeklong dispute, according to Harry, that included William at one point ordering Harry to shave his beard.
Neither Kensington Palace, the office of William and Kate, the Princess of Wales, nor Buckingham Palace, the office of Charles and Camilla, the queen consort, have commented on the claims Harry makes in \"Spare.\"
ABC News reached out to Kensington Palace and Buckingham Palace for a response to Harry's remarks in our interview. Kensington Palace declined to comment.
ABC News received a response from the law firm representing Buckingham Palace on Monday saying that the palace needed to \"consider exactly what is said in the interview and the context in which it appears,\" and asked that we supply them immediately with a copy of the entire interview. We do not do that as a news organization as a matter of policy.
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