Prince Harry Reveals He Could Have Written 2 Books: "I Don't Think They Would Ever Forgive Me"

In "Spare," Harry recounts a conversation where he — along with Meghan, William, and Kate — attempts to suss out who it was from the Palace who leaked the rumour that Meghan made Kate cry ahead of her wedding to Harry in 2018.

According to an excerpt shared on Twitter, Harry first recounted why Buckingham Palace would not correct the story:

No one at the Palace could phone the correspondent, because that would invite the inevitable retort: Well, if the story's wrong, what's the real story? What did happen between the two duchesses? And that door must never be opened, because it would embarrass the future queen.

The monarchy, always, at all costs, had to be protected.

Since the story wouldn't be corrected, the group shifted to figuring out who it was that leaked the story:

Who could've planted such a thing? Who could've leaked it to the press in the first place? Who?

We went around and around. The list of suspects became vanishingly small. Finally, finally, Willy leaned back and conceded that, ahem, while we'd been on tour in Australia, he and Kate had gone to dinner with Pa and Camilla . . . and, alas, he said sheepishly, he might've let it slip that there'd been strife between the two couples . . .

I put a hand over my face. Meg froze. A heavy silence fell. So now we knew.

I told Willy: You . . . of all people . . . should've known . . .

In an excerpt obtained by NBC News (via E!), Harry addresses the rumours that British military officer (and Diana's former lover) James Hewitt is his real father. In the pages of "Spare," he recounts how Charles "liked telling stories," and that one alluding to Hewitt "was one of the best in his repertoire."

"'Who knows if I'm really the Prince of Wales? Who knows if I'm even your real father?'" Charles would joke, according to Harry. "Maybe your real father is in Broadmoor, darling boy!'"

Harry writes that Charles would "laugh and laugh" over that joke, despite it being "remarkably unfunny," conceding that the widespread rumour picked up steam because Diana's former lover shares Harry's red hair. "Tabloid readers were delighted by the idea that the younger child of Prince Charles wasn't the child of Prince Charles," Harry writes. "They couldn't get enough of this 'joke,' for some reason. Maybe it made them feel better about their lives that a young prince's life was laughable."

However, Harry makes clear that he is, in fact, King Charles's son: "Never mind that my mother didn't meet Major Hewitt until long after I was born, the story was simply too good to drop."

The Guardian excerpt includes Harry outlining an altercation with his brother, which began when William called Markle "difficult", "rude", and "abrasive", which Harry calls a "parrot[ing of] the press narrative". (His tumultuous relationship with the media and the leaking of stories was addressed in detail in the Netflix series.) The brothers' confrontation reportedly escalated and insults were exchanged.

According to the newspaper, William said he was trying to help, to which Harry responded: "Are you serious? Help me? Sorry — is that what you call this? Helping me?" It is this comment which allegedly fuelled William's anger. "Willy, I can't speak to you when you're like this," Harry reports he said. Next, it is written that William "grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor."

Harry writes that he landed on the dog bowl and scratched his back, before telling William to leave. William reportedly asked him to hit him back, referencing childhood fights they would have, before looking "regretful", apologising and telling Harry didn't need to tell Markle about the situation that has occurred. Afterwards, Harry called his therapist, but Markle noticed the scrapes on his back and was said to be "terribly sad" about the bust up.

Harry also recounts a moment with his brother and father, King Charles, following the funeral of his grandfather, Prince Philip, in April 2021. The King is reported to have stood between Harry and William "looking up at our flushed faces" and said, "Please, boys. Don't make my final years a misery."

According to the BBC, Harry first found out about his grandmother's death from the outlet's website. On the day that she died, 8 Sept., Harry made arrangements to get to Balmoral — the Scottish estate where the Queen spent the summer — by plane but news of her death reached him by phone before he could exit it. In his memoir, he wrote, "When the plane started to descend I saw that my phone lit up. It was a message from Meg: 'Call me when you get this' . . . I looked at the BBC website. My grandmother had died. My father was King."

AP reported that Harry's memoir recounts his "wild teenage years," in which he recalls losing his virginity at 17 years old to an older woman who "loved horses and treated the teenage prince like a young stallion." Furthermore, the act itself took place "in a field, just behind a crowded pub." Harry reportedly referred to it as a "humiliating episode."

According to Page Six, Harry claims that he was encouraged to wear a Nazi costume to a party in 2005 by his brother and Kate Middleton. According to a section obtained by the outlet, Harry's choice was between a Nazi uniform or a pilot costume. He writes, "I phoned Willy and Kate, asked what they thought. Nazi uniform, they said. They both howled. Worse than Willy's leotard outfit! Way more ridiculous! Which, again, was the point."

An excerpt obtained by NBC News is shedding new light on the reported tensions between Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, and Meghan Markle. In "Spare," Harry opens up about a moment when Middleton and Markle clashed before he and the "Suits" star tied the knot.

Markle reportedly said Middleton had "baby brain" after the princess said she had forgotten something unimportant. From her perspective, the Duchess of Sussex told Harry that she was speaking to Middleton just as she would her friends, but later Middleton reportedly said she was offended by Markle's comment. According to Harry, the couples came together to discuss the matter over tea.

"You talked about my hormones. We are not close enough for you to talk about my hormones!" Harry recalled Middleton saying to Markle. William then reportedly pointed his finger at Markle and said her "rude" comment wasn't how they spoke to each other in Britain. Harry wrote that Markle then told William to "take your finger out of my face."