Prince Harry’s explosive memoir Spare made a ‘villain’ of his brother Prince William, royal experts tell PALACE CONFIDENTIAL in a look back at 2023 for the British monarchy

Prince Harry portrayed his older brother as a ‘villain’ in his memoir Spare, Rebecca English told Palace Confidential.

Speaking on the Mail+ weekly talk show, the Daily Mail’s royal editor said the Duke of Sussex, 39, surprised audiences by portraying the Prince of Wales, 41, as a villainous figure in the story.

“We thought it might be the king and queen who were the villains of the piece, but it turned out it was actually his older brother,” Rebecca said.

Speaking to Daily Mail diary editor Richard Eden and presenter Jo Elvin, Rebecca drew a link between William’s vile portrayal and Harry’s details of an explosive brotherly argument detailed in the book.

Harry claimed he was left with visible ‘scrapes and bruises’ after he was allegedly attacked by his brother. He claimed: ‘[William] grabbed me by the collar, tore my chain and knocked me to the ground.’

The father-of-three’s long-awaited memoir hit bookshelves around the world in January this year, becoming the biggest-selling memoir ever in its first week of publication, according to publisher Transworld, the UK division of Penguin Random House.

From colorful revelations about Harry’s frozen penis to more serious topics of a fraternal rift and intricate details of a private feud between Kate Middleton, 41, and Meghan Markle, 42, the book raised eyebrows around the world.

For Rebecca, it was information about a specific feud between William and Harry, in which the Prince of Wales was portrayed as a ‘bad guy’.

“They did everything together, so to see that blow up like that once and for all was actually really sad to see,” Rebecca said.

She added that the explosive details in Spare have resulted in William’s radio silence on Harry – a reality that the royal editor said is unlikely to change anytime soon.

It also included a claim that William and their father Charles confronted him after Prince Philip’s funeral ‘looking for a fight’.

Harry also claimed that William and Kate urged him to wear his infamous Nazi costume.

Additionally, the Duke revealed his father’s medical conditions and the fact that the King still carries around his favorite teddy bear.

According to the London-based journalist, Prince Harry (pictured above at the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey on May 6, 2023) painted Prince William as a “bad guy.”

Harry’s memoir Spare, released in January, contains a number of eyebrow-raising details

He cast William as his “nemesis,” Queen Camilla as an “evil stepmother,” and Charles as an emotionally stunted and ineffective “old man.”

Elsewhere in the show, the panel discussed the effects of Omid Scobie’s great book Endgame.

On the subject, Rebecca said: “It has again created uncomfortable situations for the family, I involve Harry and Meghan in this, who they tried to bury with hope.”

She added: ‘The issue of trust has been raised again because people have spoken to Omid Scobie, and I can now tell you it is not the people of Buckingham Palace.’

Endgame, a sequel to Scobie’s 2020 book Finding Freedom, dropped to 215th on Amazon’s bestseller list after just a week on shelves.

It was widely pilloried, even by normally sympathetic media such as the New York Times, which described one chapter as “like a press release concocted by ChatGPT.”

Most reactions to the book focused on the Dutch-language edition, which included the names of the two family members accused of “unconscious bias” by the Duchess of Sussex.

The book alleged that Meghan had mentioned both the king and his daughter-in-law Kate in letters she wrote to him about the matter.

Yet even this controversy did little to contribute to its success: Nielsen estimated UK sales figures for the first five days at 6,448.