 as well as spares (second-born children) as essentially insurance in case anything befell the firstborn. Prince Harry with his older brother Prince William ( POOL/AFP via Getty Images) In the case of the royals, William is the heir as he is the older brother and will one day be King, while second-born Harry is the spare - although he has recently been bumped down the line of succession in recent years due to the births of William's children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis. Speaking on True Royalty TV's The Royal Beat, royal expert and author Ingrid Seward shed light on why the word Spare may have been important to Harry - and it is down to his late mother Princess Diana. She told the programme: "That was what Diana used to say, William was the heir, and Harry was the spare, so maybe that's why?" The striking front cover of Harry's memoir ( Penguin Random House) The brothers have often been referred to as the 'heir and the spare' ( POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Harry has alluded to his status as the 'spare' in the past, not least in 2016 when he talked about how the ambiguity surrounding his royal role as his future is not as certain as William's. In a){kind=link}
The memoir that Prince Harry will release early next year will be called Spare, its publisher has revealed – and there is a reason why it might have been picked as the name of his eagerly-awaited memoir
Prince Harry has finally shared the title of his eagerly-awaited tell-all memoir – and it’s certainly confrontational.
The book will be called Spare, it has been revealed – a direct link to Harry’s status as a second-born son and his place in the line of succession. Spare references the phrase “the heir and the spare”, which has often been used to describe Harry and his older brother Prince William and their differing destinies. The phrase refers to ensuring a family’s bloodline and how, hundreds of years ago, parents would have an heir (a first-born) as well as spares (second-born children) as essentially insurance in case anything befell the firstborn.
In the case of the royals, William is the heir as he is the older brother and will one day be King, while second-born Harry is the spare – although he has recently been bumped down the line of succession in recent years due to the births of William’s children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
Speaking on True Royalty TV’s The Royal Beat, royal expert and author Ingrid Seward shed light on why the word Spare may have been important to Harry – and it is down to his late mother Princess Diana.