New details of Prince Harry’s memoir exposes ‘deep shame’

New information about Prince Harry’s upcoming memoir highlights a “deep shame” in the Duke of Sussex, a royal biographer has said. On Thursday, several new details about the upcoming memoir were released, including the title of the book.’Spare’ will hit the shelves on January 10, 2023, after being ‘tentatively’ scheduled for later this year.The title immediately prompted speculation over its meaning, and its significance for the contents being made public next year.It is thought to refer to the phrase “heir and the spare”, relating to Prince William’s and Prince Harry’s respective positions in the line of succession.Royal biographer Angela Levin claimed the title betrays a ‘deep shame’, and predicted the account is likely to be ‘nasty’ towards the Royal Family. On Thursday, several new details about the upcoming memoir were released (Image: Getty) The title immediately prompted speculation over its meaning (Image: Penguin Random House)She told The Sun: “It tells you what he thinks about himself with some great deep shame that somehow he didn’t feel he was better than that.”Diana did her absolute best [so] that he wouldn’t feel like that. She tried to tell him there were more options, more things would be open to him.”He’s got freedom. But obviously that hasn’t worked.”However, Professor Maclaran of Royal Holloway, University of London, said she believed the title to be a fitting choice for the memoir.READ MORE: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry coverage slammed by GMB viewers The memoir is expected to speak about the death of Princess Diana (Image: Getty)She told Express.co.uk: ‘My initial thoughts are that this is a good title for the book.’The spare heir has long been recognised as a difficult position to sustain and often the spares go astray – we can think of Princess Margaret and Prince Andrew here for starters.’The author of ‘Royal Fever’ predicted the tell-all memoir will see the Duke ‘foregrounding his feelings of inadequacy in terms of his royal role’, and a push to ‘carve out his own identity’.She continued: ‘I see this memoir as likely bridging his past life with his new one as, from the website, he seems to be carving out his identity as a humanitarian and reaching out to people on the basis that he is just like them.’DON’T MISS: Palace lawyers on ‘standby’ as Firm braces for Harry’s ‘nuclear’ memoir [LIVE] ‘Absurd’ for King to have non-working royals able to deputise [REVEAL] Royal POLL: Who should be promoted to Counsellor of State? [VOTE] The book is also expected to speak about Harry’s relationship with Prince William (Image: Getty)Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams also referred to the title as an ‘ominous’ sign of what will be written in the memoir.He told Express.co.uk: ‘When someone refers to themselves as a spare, it is at best cynical and at worst derogatory.’As a future Queen, it was sometimes said, Diana’s duty was to produce an ‘heir and a spare’.”The Duke promised the memoir would be ‘accurate and wholly truthful’, adding he was ‘writing this not as the prince I was born but as the man I have become’.In new promotional material, a freshly-launched website for the memoir promised an account ‘full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief”.The memoir will be full of ‘raw, unflinching honesty’, and £1.3m of the proceeds from the book will be donated to two charities supported by the Duke of Sussex.