“Darling boy, mummy’s been in a car crash”) but also to dismiss his younger son’s concerns patronizingly (e.g. But his opinion of the queen’s long-suffering younger sister - the spare to an earlier heir - seems to have softened over the years: “Now and then, as I grew older, it struck me that Aunt Margo and I should be friends.”Ĭharles’ preferred term of endearment for Harry, used to relay difficult news in a sensitive manner (e.g. Aunt Margo, a woman he didn’t know well but who, he writes, “could kill a houseplant with one scowl.”Īt the time, the gift struck Harry as “cold-blooded,” and he doesn’t offer much insight into what she may have intended with the bizarre present. Harry recalls receiving a Biro - wrapped, for some reason, in a tiny rubber fish - as a present one Christmas from Princess Margaret, a.k.a. Students dress in funereal black tailcoats and pinstriped trousers because “we were supposed to be in perpetual mourning for old Henry VI,” writes Harry, who felt out of place at such an elite place of learning despite his royal lineage: “Heaven for brilliant boys, it could thus only be purgatory for one very unbrilliant boy.”Ī term for a common ballpoint pen, similar to a Bic. The uber-posh boarding school Harry and William attended was founded by King Henry VI in 1440 and has a complicated lexicon of its own (teachers are known as “beaks,” classes as “divs”).
Club H was located deep in the bowels of the estate, beyond a wine cellar “wherein Camilla kept her fanciest bottles,” and a storage room containing “absurd gifts from foreign governments” that couldn’t be regifted or donated. Harry describes the castle in vivid detail, including the brownish tap water - “filtered and sweetened by the Scottish peat” - and the identical doors, which made it all too easy to barge in accidentally on his father doing headstands in his boxers.Ī bomb shelter turned windowless party lair at Highgrove, Charles’ country estate, where teenage Harry and Will consumed vodka and Red Bull with friends named Badger, Casper, Chimp and Skippy.
It’s also where Harry and his brother, Prince William, learned their mother, Princess Diana, had been killed in a car accident in 1997. The royal family’s estate in Scotland and the site of some of the most dramatic moments in “Spare.” It is where Queen Elizabeth II died last year (shortly before Harry arrived - he wasn’t invited on the family plane).
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