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Anonymous wrote:^ portraying her as pure perfection

Well, may be he has rose colored glasses on or may be she is perfect in his eyes or may be he is emotionally dependent on her and can't criticize her, just like kids who think of their parents as angels after losing them and block all bad memories.

Or maybe he's just not going to criticize her because she already gets tons of it unfairly. Or maybe he's just being a normal husband who keeps criticism of one's spouse private.

+1. Healthy people recognize their spouse’s mistakes and flaws, and may vent about them to close friends, but healthy people do not go broadcasting them to the entire world. Would anyone here really start spouting off to their spouse’s boss, for instance, about how lazy they are at home? No, healthy people in good marriages don’t do that. Whatever disagreements or annoyances they may have are addressed privately. To the rest of the world, they are their spouse’s cheerleader. Why would anyone want Harry to actively damage his marriage by intentionally criticizing his wife in print?

Anonymous wrote:All I can say is, Harry is very lacking in basic emotional intel.
Breathtakingly so.

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Anonymous wrote:Have any of the other members of the royal family commented on the book?

Hopefully, they will have the class to just ignore this soap opera and continue on with their lives.

Anonymous wrote:Charles and the Queen abused their power. When they removed security from Harry (and Diana before), they are effectively telling whoever wants to stand up to them that they will be fed to the wolves. So, what is a person to do if the monarch abuses him or her sexually? Say Charlotte has an issue with Charles, does she just accept it for fear that she will lose "protection". I would take the Royal family's tail to court over the protection thing. They would back down for fear of the negative press.

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Anonymous wrote:5. I thought he showed quite a lack of empathy to his brother. Like, could he really not understand the reaction to the wedding beard? It's so important to Harry but silly for William to be jealous of the same thing? There were so many scenes like this scattered throughout the book - Harry's emotions are proper and well contextualized but he failed to allow the other's emotions and humanity.

This is astute. I think this lack of empathy and myopic thinking reflects immature emotional development (which I don't really 'blame' him for) and is what is leading him to make some poor choices when it comes to his family and other public actions/words.

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Also no concern over his niece Charlotte when she cried over the dress at age 3. No it was all about Meghan!

You mean when Meghan told Kate repeatedly the tailor was already there and waiting to alter the dress and Kate was demanding it be fully remade four days before the wedding?

But did she ever express sadness that Charlotte cried? Or was it all business...perhaps a little sympathy for a three year old wouldn't be that difficult!

A three year old is never going to cry about a dress not fitting. Maybe that it’s uncomfortable. If she cried because it wasn’t flattering that’s her mothers influence.

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Anonymous wrote:5. I thought he showed quite a lack of empathy to his brother. Like, could he really not understand the reaction to the wedding beard? It's so important to Harry but silly for William to be jealous of the same thing? There were so many scenes like this scattered throughout the book - Harry's emotions are proper and well contextualized but he failed to allow the other's emotions and humanity.

This is astute. I think this lack of empathy and myopic thinking reflects immature emotional development (which I don't really 'blame' him for) and is what is leading him to make some poor choices when it comes to his family and other public actions/words.

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Also no concern over his niece Charlotte when she cried over the dress at age 3. No it was all about Meghan!

You mean when Meghan told Kate repeatedly the tailor was already there and waiting to alter the dress and Kate was demanding it be fully remade four days before the wedding?

Something felt very off in that retelling. Harry was (presumably) not part of the phone call but he seems certain that the sister in law who described so fondly would act so irrationally. It's like the lip gloss and hormones thing. Maybe Meghan overstepped but in the telling it's Kate (or is it Cate?) that was in the wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:5. I thought he showed quite a lack of empathy to his brother. Like, could he really not understand the reaction to the wedding beard? It's so important to Harry but silly for William to be jealous of the same thing? There were so many scenes like this scattered throughout the book - Harry's emotions are proper and well contextualized but he failed to allow the other's emotions and humanity.

This is astute. I think this lack of empathy and myopic thinking reflects immature emotional development (which I don't really 'blame' him for) and is what is leading him to make some poor choices when it comes to his family and other public actions/words.

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Also no concern over his niece Charlotte when she cried over the dress at age 3. No it was all about Meghan!

You mean when Meghan told Kate repeatedly the tailor was already there and waiting to alter the dress and Kate was demanding it be fully remade four days before the wedding?

But did she ever express sadness that Charlotte cried? Or was it all business...perhaps a little sympathy for a three year old wouldn't be that difficult!

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Anonymous wrote:5. I thought he showed quite a lack of empathy to his brother. Like, could he really not understand the reaction to the wedding beard? It's so important to Harry but silly for William to be jealous of the same thing? There were so many scenes like this scattered throughout the book - Harry's emotions are proper and well contextualized but he failed to allow the other's emotions and humanity.

This is astute. I think this lack of empathy and myopic thinking reflects immature emotional development (which I don't really 'blame' him for) and is what is leading him to make some poor choices when it comes to his family and other public actions/words.

He didn’t say William was silly for being jealous of the beard, he was mad that William tried to lord his “heir” role over Harry to force Harry to shave his beard simply because William was forced to shave his. William was being petty.

+1 There is not one instance where I feel sorry for William in this book (except for the passages about his feelings of loss on the death of his mother). William gets to be King. That's the prize he needs to keep his eye on. Let Harry the Spare have his beard, and whatever uniforms he wants to wear, and whatever woman he wants to marry. William needs to get a grip.

The book has definitely left me on team Not-William but I actually think that Harry should have some empathy for William. As much as Harry thinks he's in a gilded cage, it's much much worse for William. William never would have been able to go to war or do all of the adventure travelling Harry has done. He wouldn't have been able to marry whoever he wants. His life is very very scripted. William probably has a lot of resentment towards Harry, which shows in the beard incident and several other times in the book.

Overall, I enjoyed it although I really think it was a mistake for Harry to trash his relatives, I got a little queasy reading all of that. I would have preferred more on the "mechanics" of royal life. Did he get lessons on being a prince? How do they get about and plan for an outing? I mean there was some of that but I would have liked to know more about being a royal than what a royal pain it seems to be.