Prince Harry's book officially hits shops after days of leaks

Bookshops crossed London opened astatine midnight to conscionable request for Prince Harry's memoir aft it officially went connected sale.

It follows the chaotic motorboat of Spare with aggregate leaks and copies becoming disposable successful Spain past week.

Branches of WH Smith successful locations including Euston, Victoria, Heathrow and Gatwick extended their hours.

Waterstones accidental Prince Harry's publication has been 1 of its "biggest pre-order titles for a decade".

The booksellers opened their flagship Piccadilly subdivision aboriginal connected Tuesday successful anticipation of precocious lawsuit demand, arsenic the publication was published astir the satellite successful 16 languages.

A fistful of radical waiting successful enactment extracurricular WH Smith astatine Victoria Station said they wanted to get their hands connected it rapidly arsenic they felt "intrigued" and "extremely curious".

The memoir is already apical of the champion sellers successful the UK for online retailer Amazon, aft days of headline-grabbing revelations from leaks - ranging from however Prince Harry mislaid his virginity to claims that Prince Harry was attacked by his brother, Prince William.

The 410-page memoir, revealing the struggle and idiosyncratic tensions wrong royal palaces, shows Prince Harry's mentation of increasing up and past falling retired with the Royal Family.

So acold Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace person not responded.

But the claims successful the publication see that Prince Harry begged his begetter not re-marry, that helium killed 25 Taliban fighters portion serving successful Afghanistan, that helium took psychedelic drugs, partially successful effect to panic attacks, and that Meghan and Catherine had a hard relationship.

A large taxable successful the publication is the consciousness of unresolved grief for the nonaccomplishment of his mother, Princess Diana, with Prince Harry saying helium had a "post-traumatic accent injury".

The property are held liable for pursuing Diana and Prince Harry said successful 1 of respective interviews promoting the publication that it would beryllium his "life's work" to alteration the media landscape.

There are besides unexpected details specified arsenic Prince Harry and Prince William calling each different "Harold" and "Willy", that Harry utilized to get his apparel astatine discount outlet TK Maxx and watched a batch of Friends connected television.

The revelations astir tensions with the Royal Family, including Camilla, the Queen Consort, and the Prince and Princess of Wales, has provoked overmuch controversy.

Despite the leaks, galore queued precocious into the nighttime to beryllium archetypal to bargain the memoir.

Professor Chris Imafidon, successful enactment astatine Victoria Station, said helium wanted to perceive the communicative "from [the] horse's mouth".

Also successful the queue was bartender Sasha Pursell, 27, who has moved to London from Melbourne, Australia.

"I'm conscionable intrigued," she said. "I've heard truthful overmuch property astir the publication and it's besides conscionable a spot breathtaking - I've ne'er been to a midnight release."

Opinion polling from YouGov, published connected Monday, showed an archetypal dip successful Prince Harry's popularity successful the UK.

There were 64% of radical who had a antagonistic presumption of Prince Harry, compared with 26% who had a affirmative presumption of him, down from 33% successful the autumn, and the lowest fig successful much than a decennary of this regular survey.

Five years agone this tracking survey, based connected a illustration of astir 1,700 adults, showed 80% had been affirmative astir Harry.

But the latest figures for January 2023 showed much enactment among young people, aged 18-24, with numbers astir evenly divided betwixt those with affirmative and antagonistic views of Prince Harry.