“I loved Prince Harry of Sussex’s book, I read it in one sitting and with great emotion and interest.” This is how the former First Lady begins her text published on Friday January 27, 2023 on her Instagram account accompanying the cover of the book The Spare, memoirs of Prince Harry released in France on January 10. It is surely between two shows of Haute Couture Fashion Week currently taking place in the capital and other artistic social events at the beginning of the year that Carla Bruni was able to manage to come to the end of the 416 pages of this intimate story, a real media bomb. Since its launch, The Spare has sold 400,000 copies in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. In France, the confessions of the Prince of Sussex were printed in 210,000 copies by Fayard before being reprinted in 50,000 additional copies shortly afterwards. A unique edition box!
The secret of such success? The promise of a true tone and many crisp revelations behind the scenes of Buckingham, after a series on NetflixHarry & Meghan followed worldwide in December 2022. In his presentation, the youngest of the crown announced the color: “With this book, I hope to be able to report on my story, the ups and downs, my mistakes, the lessons I learned from it…”, and promised: “I want to show that we are all linked and that we we have things in common, no matter where we come from.”
“Prince Harry is his mother’s son”
A promise visibly kept according to the enthusiastic words of Carla Bruni on her account, who continues as follows: “It is rare for someone imprisoned in such a position to be so sincere, so clear, so true. It is rare for someone whose existence is so radically predestined to fight for a life, his own life. , like any of us, like you and me.”, she says, visibly touched by the story of this “almost king” in whose history everyone can project themselves. The sister of actress and director Valéria Bruni Tedeschi goes even further in the praise: “It’s brave, it’s daring, it’s new: but Prince Harry is indeed his mother’s son”, recalling that Lady Di also had published her biography in the early 1990s, Diana told by herself. The ex-model-turned-artist concludes her message thus: “Prince Harry’s heart, which we feel beating on every page, tells us something that concerns us all and whoever we are: We only have one life and we must live it as much as possible according to his instinct, according to his happiness. Life is too short and too pointless to believe that happiness wouldn’t matter. No life should deprive itself of the little happiness that awaits it, this is in truth what this book, so singular and so interesting, teaches us..” A beautiful declaration to the Duke of Sussex and an analysis which undoubtedly explains the historical success and the sales records of the work which cannot drop at least until next May 6 and the official coronation of his royal father.
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