Prince Harry's 'push' to make royal revelations in book Spare as he 'cancels film rights'
dailyrecord.co.ukMarina Hyde, in conversation with Richard Osman on their podcast The Rest Is Entertainment, said that the ghostwriter behind Prince Harry's popular memoir Spare "pushed" the Duke to delve deeper into certain aspects of his life.
Using J.R. Moehringer as an example, she wen into details about the impact of ghostwriters.She stated: "He was chosen because his [Andrea] Agassi book is amazing and you wouldn't think, I mean Agassi was this great tennis player, he was showman, but the biography, the autobiography is absolutely brilliant."The greatest ghost writers and clearly what happened with Moehringer who gave some interviews after having done Spare, said he really pushed Prince Harry to say more and more about certain things." Marina further noted that in some books "the really sensational stuff or the very raw stuff comes right at the end", reports the Express.
She continued: "Right at the end when you’ve built up a long time of talking to someone maybe in their house over many many hours over some months, they come back and there’s a sort of dump of all the really intense personal stuff that is going to be the bit that’s in all the headlines, and is filleted out of the serialisations.”Following its release, Spare quickly became one of the fastest-selling books, shifting millions of copies within its first week.
Nielsen Book Data also reported that it soon became the fastest-selling non-fiction book in UK history post-publication.Despite the financial success of Prince Harry's controversial book, which made claims about senior members of the Royal Family, rumours of it being adapted into a film have been quashed.
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