Prince Harry’s Ghostwriter Opened Up About Being “Exasperated” While Writing “Spare” And Detailed Their Most Intense Argument Over A “Difficult” Excerpt About Princess Diana
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Prince Harry’s Ghostwriter Opened Up About Being “Exasperated” While Writing “Spare” And Detailed Their Most Intense Argument Over A “Difficult” Excerpt About Princess Diana,“He wasn’t pleading, he was insisting, and it was 2 a.m., and I was starting to lose it. I said, ‘Dude, we’ve been over this.’”
Prince Harry’s Ghostwriter Opened Up About Being “Exasperated” While Writing “Spare” And Detailed Their Most Intense Argument Over A “Difficult” Excerpt About Princess Diana
As you might remember, Prince Harry’s memoir caused quite a stir when it was released in January.
Kevin Winter / Getty ImagesIn an essay published on Sunday by the New Yorker, Moehringer recalled being “exasperated” while he and the Prince collaborated on the book, admitting that they had a number of heated arguments during the long creative process.
Scott Olson / Getty ImagesAs well as working on Spare, Moehringer is perhaps best known for writing Nike co-founder Phil Knight’s 2016 memoir Shoe Dog, as well as his own autobiography, The Tender Bar, which was adapted into a movie by George Clooney in 2021.
Leonardo Cendamo / Getty ImagesReflecting on the years he spent on Spare, Moehringer recounted a specific argument he had with Harry that became so contentious he worried he might be fired from the project.
Aaron Chown – Pa Images / PA Images via Getty ImagesThe disagreement apparently took place during a late-night Zoom meeting in Summer 2022, in which the two were discussing edits on a “difficult passage” relating to the duke’s late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.
Julian Parker / UK Press via Getty ImagesIn the excerpt, Harry is being subjected to “grueling military exercises” in rural England where he was “hooded, dragged to an underground bunker, beaten, frozen, starved, stripped, forced into excruciating stress positions by captors wearing black balaclavas.”
Max Mumby / Getty Images“It’s a simulation, but the tortures inflicted upon Harry are very real,” Moehringer explained in his new essay. “The idea is to find out if Harry has the toughness to survive an actual capture on the battlefield.”
Max Mumby / Getty ImagesDuring the exercise, one of the participants posing as Harry’s captor apparently made a “vile” comment about Princess Diana that they later apologized for.
Pascal J Le Segretain / Sygma via Getty ImagesAccording to The Tender Bar author, the Prince wanted to end this section in the book by revealing what he said to the other participant in response; however, Moehringer insisted that it should be left out.
Anwar Hussein / WireImage“Harry always wanted to end this scene with a thing he said to his captors, a comeback that struck me as unnecessary, and somewhat inane,” he wrote. “Good for Harry that he had the nerve, but ending with what he said would dilute the scene’s meaning: that even at the most bizarre and peripheral moments of his life, his central tragedy intrudes.”
Max Mumby / Getty ImagesHe explained that for several months, Harry was begging to include the comeback in the passage, even after it had already been cut from the draft numerous times, which led the two coming to blows during a virtual meeting.
Chris Jackson / Getty Images for Invictus Games Dusseldorf 2023“Now, he wasn’t pleading, he was insisting, and it was 2 a.m., and I was starting to lose it. I said, ‘Dude, we’ve been over this,’” Moehringer wrote, revealing that the two even began yelling at one another.
Samir Hussein / Samir Hussein / WireImage“My head was pounding, my jaw was clenched, and I was starting to raise my voice. And yet, some part of me was still able to step outside the situation and think, This is so weird. I’m shouting at Prince Harry,” he recalled of the surreal exchange.
Samir Hussein / Samir Hussein / WireImageAs the back-and-forth continued, Harry took a moment to “calmly” explain why he was so eager to include the comment, apparently saying 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.”
Karwai Tang / WireImageBut, despite the reasoning, Moehringer still refused, explaining that as “strange as it may seem, memoir is not about you. It’s not even the story of your life.”
Leon Neal / Getty Images“It’s a story carved from your life, a particular series of events chosen because they have the greatest resonance for the widest range of people, and at this point in the story, those people don’t need to know anything more than that your captors said a cruel thing about your mom,” the ghostwriter said.
Max Mumby / Getty ImagesFortunately, it seemed that the pair were able to quickly put the disagreement behind them, with the Prince promptly taking the opportunity to crack a joke about the squabble. “I really enjoy getting you worked up like that,” he apparently said.
Chris Jackson / Getty Images for the Invictus Games FoundationDespite not seeing eye to eye on several occasions, Moehringer still had a ton of positive recollections about his time working with the Prince, even giving a sweet shoutout to his wife, Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex.
Mike Coppola / Getty Images for 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Gala“Harry put me up in his guesthouse, where Meghan and Archie would visit me on their afternoon walks,” he remembered, acknowledging the couple’s 4-year-old son. “Meghan, knowing I was missing my family, was forever bringing trays of food and sweets.”
Michael M. Santiago / Getty ImagesInterestingly, the author went on to admit that the global frenzy surrounding the book’s release gave him a new perspective on the Sussexes’ own struggles with the press after he found himself “squinting into a gigantic searchlight” of media attention.
Amy Sussman / Getty Images“Harry was all heart. He asked if my family was OK, asked for physical descriptions of the people harassing us, promised to make some calls, see if anything could be done,” he wrote, after admitting that the relentless harassment after the book’s release left him and his wife feeling “fragile.”
Karwai Tang / WireImage“I’d worked hard to understand the ordeals of Harry Windsor, and now I saw that I understood nothing,” he went on. “Empathy is thin gruel compared with the marrow of experience. One morning of what Harry had endured since birth made me desperate to take another crack at the pages in Spare that talk about the media.”
Karwai Tang / WireImage
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