The highly anticipated memoir by Britain’s Prince Harry, which is expected to lay bare his life as a royal, will be published in the new year.
Harry’s book is called Spare, a reference to the phrase “the heir and the spare”, and will be released globally on January 10th.
The memoir will be published by Penguin Random House and in a press release, the publisher said: “Spare takes readers immediately back to one of the most searing images of the 20th century – two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow and horror.
“As Diana, Princess of Wales was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling – and how their lives would play out from that point on.
“For Harry, this is his story at last.”
Harry previously stated that a portion of the book’s proceeds would be donated to charity.
According to a statement from the Random House imprint, he will be donating $1.5 million to Sentebale, the HIV/AIDS-focused charity in southern Africa he helped to found in 2003.
He will also donate 300 thousand British pounds to WellChild, a charity that supports children with disabilities and their families.
The book, which was originally due to be published later this year, will be “full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief”, the publisher said.
The title refers to Harry’s status as the younger brother of William, who has been heir to the British throne since their father Charles took the throne following the death of Elizabeth II last month. Until William and his wife Kate had their three children, Harry was next in line to his brother in the order of succession, hence the phrase “the spare to the heir”.
Harry and Meghan, formally known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, stepped down from royal duties in early 2020 and relocated to the United States.