Prince Harry's memoir: Top Takeaways - NBC News

Drug abuse: 'I didn't bask it'

British tabloids often reported connected Harry's enactment manner successful his younger days, but successful 'Spare' helium admits to taking amerciable drugs.

“Of people I had been taking cocaine astatine that time. At someone’s house, during a hunting weekend, I was offered a line, and since past I had consumed immoderate more," helium writes.

"It wasn’t precise fun, and it didn’t marque maine consciousness particularly blessed arsenic seemed to hap to others, but it did marque maine consciousness different, and that was my main objective. To feel. To beryllium different."

Harry goes arsenic acold arsenic to accidental his cause usage was an effort to shingle up the royal family. "I was a seventeen-year-old consenting to effort astir thing that would change the pre-established order," helium said. "At least, that’s what I was trying to person myself of."

Brothers 'begged' Charles not to wed Camilla

Harry writes of the symptom of his begetter marrying Camilla Parker Bowles, aft his messy divorcement from their mother, Princess Diana.

"In spite of Willy and I begging him not to, my begetter proceeded with his plan. We shook him by the manus and wished him each the champion without hard feelings," helium wrote.

"We recognized that helium was going to beryllium with the pistillate helium ever loved, the pistillate that destiny had successful store for him from the beginning."

Afghanistan decease toll

In comments that person already sparked outrage astatine location and abroad, Harry writes successful item astir his circuit of Afghanistan, wherever helium piloted Apache helicopters successful the confederate Helmand state arsenic portion of the British Army Air Corps.

He killed 25 force personnel, helium writes.  “It was not thing that filled maine with satisfaction, but I was not ashamed either,” helium says successful the book.

“Most soldiers don’t cognize precisely however galore kills they person to their credit. Under conflict conditions, you often occurrence indiscriminately. However, successful the property of Apaches and laptops, everything I did successful the people of 2 tours of work was recorded and time-stamped,” Harry writes.

His openness detailing his subject acquisition drew disapproval from immoderate successful the British media, portion others — including elder Taliban leaders — besides criticized Harry’s reported statement of the fighters helium killed arsenic “chess pieces removed from the board.”

William allegedly physically attacked him

A conception that has led headlines astir the satellite centers connected a gathering betwixt the brothers astatine Harry and Meghan’s erstwhile location connected the grounds of Kensington Palace successful London, successful 2019.

There, Harry writes, William had complained astir Meghan and called her “difficult,” “rude” and “abrasive.”

The confrontation past escalated, the publication recounts, with William yet grabbing Harry by the collar and ripping his necklace earlier knocking him to the floor.

“I landed connected the dog’s bowl, which cracked nether my back, the pieces cutting into me. I laic determination for a moment, dazed,” Harry writes. Harry says helium past told his member to leave, which helium did aft initially urging Harry to deed him back.

William aboriginal returned and apologized, Harry writes successful the explosive conception that was archetypal reported by The Guardian newspaper, though William suggested Harry not archer Meghan astir the alleged altercation, according to quality outlets. 

“‘You mean that you attacked me?’ Harry writes that helium responded, according to the quality outlets. “‘I didn’t onslaught you, Harold,’” helium reportedly recounts William calling back.

Harry besides refers to his member successful the publication arsenic his “arch-nemesis,” according to a clip from a pre-recorded interrogation helium did with ABC's "Good Morning America."

Kate and Meghan flare-up

Harry writes that William's wife, Kate, present Princess of Wales, demanded an apology aft Meghan suggested she had forgotten thing due to the fact that she was suffering from "baby brain."

The disagreement came astatine a planned reconciliatory beverage astatine Kensington Palace successful June 2018, Harry writes. But contempt the peacemaking plan, sparks flew erstwhile the treatment turned to post-pregnancy hormones, helium adds.

According to the book, Kate told Meghan: “You talked astir my hormones. We are not adjacent capable for you to speech astir my hormones!”

According to Harry, Meghan recalled the speech but was perplexed astatine Kate's reaction. He goes connected to suggest that William past pointed astatine Meghan and said her “rude” remark was not the mode things were done successful Britain.

Meghan past seemingly told William to “take your digit retired of my face."

Encouragement for Nazi uniform

A representation of Harry dressed arsenic a Nazi serviceman astatine a enactment caused outrage erstwhile it appeared connected the beforehand leafage of The Sun paper successful 2005, erstwhile helium was 20.

In the couple's recent six-episode Netflix documentary series, Harry described the incidental arsenic "one of the biggest mistakes of my life.

"I felt truthful ashamed afterwards. All I wanted to bash was marque it right,” helium says successful the 3rd episode.

But successful "Spare," Harry alleges that helium was encouraged by some William and Kate to deterioration the outfit.

Harry writes that helium visited a costume store and recovered respective options for the party, earlier calling William and Kate for advice. He said they instantly suggested the Nazi uniform.

Diana's death

Harry writes of the earth-shattering infinitesimal helium learned successful 1997, past conscionable 12, that his parent had been injured and was astir to die.

Charles made him beryllium him down connected the furniture to interruption the quality of the car accident, helium recalls, calling him "my beloved son" arsenic helium told however Diana had sustained caput injuries that didn’t look apt to improve.

Harry writes: "What I bash retrieve with stunning clarity is that I did not cry. Not a tear. My begetter did not hug me."

The decease preyed connected Harry's caput good into adulthood: helium writes of asking his operator to instrumentality him done the Paris underpass successful which Diana died.

Harry besides describes the clip helium met a pistillate with "powers" who said she could consciousness Diana’s tone and construe messages from beyond the grave.

Harry writes that she told him: "Your parent says that you are surviving the beingness that she couldn’t live, the beingness she wanted for you."

Charles' fatherhood jokes

Harry alludes to long-standing rumors that James Hewitt, a erstwhile British service serviceman with whom Diana had a relationship, is his existent father.

Harry rejects this theory, pointing retired that Diana met Hewitt aft helium was born. But helium adds that Charles has often joked that Harry was not his son.

A father's plea

Harry writes that helium met with Charles and William aft the ceremonial of Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's consort, successful 2021. The juncture was a uncommon reunion of the warring factions of the Windsor clan.

Charles, according to Harry, stood betwixt his 2 sons and said: "Please, boys, don’t marque my last years a misery."