Prince Harry’s memoirs in exile, published on Tuesday, have been a hit in British bookstores, but also in France.
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Les memories Prince Harry, with its scathing take on the British monarchy, got off to a flying start with first-day sales of the English edition surpassing 1.4 million copies, the publisher announced Thursday. According to Penguin Random House, Spare (change in French), sales in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada are unprecedented for an article published by this publishing house in all formats (digital, audio, etc.). The latter did not provide figures for the other 15 languages in which the book was published.
In the book, published on Tuesday, the prince, who has been in exile in California since 2020, four months after Elizabeth II’s death and four months before Charles III’s coronation, paints a critical portrait of his relatives, sometimes unraveling accounts more than two decades old. years. No one emerges unscathed from the altercation: the drug-and-alcohol-infested youth who unabashedly tells his story, or his father Charles III, or his brother William, who was heavily battered, or his mother-in-law. Now Queen Consort Camilla or her sister-in-law Kate.
“I’m Shadow, Line, Plan B”
His “beloved brother and greatest enemy” is the most criticized of all. Shown to be angry, William never loved his wife Meghan, whom he considered “badly brought up and aggressive”, and allegedly threw Harry to the floor in a dog bowl during an argument in 2019. Harry describes a long rivalry between William “heir” and his “replacement”. “I’m Shadow, Lining, Plan B”. Buckingham Palace has so far remained silent on the allegations, although the press has reported the Windsors’ displeasure, citing unnamed sources. King Charles III and William and Kate are set to make their first public appearances since the book was published on Thursday.
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Despite the book’s strong sales, the prince’s popularity has waned in England, where he is often portrayed as a spoiled brat who wants the perks of royalty without the inconveniences. Just 26% of Britons have a favorable opinion of the Duke of Sussex, seven points lower than in December, according to a YouGov survey carried out in early January. Even young people, long the most favorable, are now divided with 41% favorable and the same proportion unfavorable.
Already reprinted in France
In the United Kingdom, the French version cannot be left out, knowing the astonishing success of Prince Harry’s memoirs, with sales exceeding 1.4 million copies on the first day. Two days after publication, change This Thursday will enjoy a third reprint, through its French publisher, Fired Relate BFM TV. Originally printed in 210,000 copies, 50,000 copies have already been reprinted since the first day of sale. In total, there were 130,000 new reprints in three days.
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