Omid Scobie, a close friend of Meghan Markle, has defended Prince Harry’s controversial memoir Spare, arguing that the prince had every right to tell his own tale, just as King Charles and Princess Diana did.
In a Yahoo post, Mr. Scobie criticized the media’s portrayal of the book, which describes claimed battles with Harry’s brother the Prince of Wales, as a “tawdry tell-all.”
He stated, “When read from beginning to end, the story is much more nuanced and layered.” One having both heart and spirit.
As he published images of Prince Harry’s remarks on Afghanistan, in which he stated he had killed 25 Taliban militants, he remarked, “And this is why context is important.”
Omid Scobie, a close friend of Harry and Meghan, stated that Prince Harry’s biography is identical to those released in the 1990s about his parents.
Mr. Scobie defended Harry on social media, stating that “context is everything” as he uploaded a passage from Spare discussing the prince’s experience in Afghanistan.
The memoir Spare, which was scheduled to be released in the coming days, was leaked when Spanish merchants began selling the Spanish edition of the book prior to its official launch on January 10 – despite clearly labeled boxes indicating it was not for sale prior to that day.
Fights with Prince William, talks in which he urged his father not to marry Camilla, and his farewell words to his grandmother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, have been revealed thus far.
The Duke of Sussex has been accused of airing “dirty laundry” in public, but Mr. Scobie has defended the marriage once again.
Meghan’s close friend took aim at the royal family’s’short-term memory loss’ by referencing biographies of Diana and Prince Charles written after their divorce.
He then drew comparisons between the press and public’s reaction to the activities of King Charles, the then-Prince of Wales: “For Charles, the negative response from the British press and public was intense.”
‘Accused of viciously abusing his family and disgracing the monarchy, media polls and opinion pieces deemed Charles unfit to be king, and several journalists advocated that he be deprived of his titles. (Does this sound familiar again?’)
He continued, “Harry has spent the majority of his life being written and spoken about—a spare to the heir whose darkest secrets, regrettable moments, and struggles have been repeatedly revealed to the world by a press with an insatiable hunger for him and his family.”
When the prince stood down from his position three years ago, it was natural that he would want to relate his story in his own words.
Omid Scobie tweeted his support for Prince Harry’s autobiography, stating that context’matters’ when discussing the book’s contents.
But Mr. Scobie went farther with public statements on his own social media, criticizing the media in a manner similar to the Sussexes’ remarks in their Netflix tell-all docuseries, Harry and Meghan.
Mr. Scobie stated, in reference to the series of revelations about Harry’s time in Afghanistan, including the revelation that he killed at least 25 Taliban militants and viewed them as ‘chess pieces’ to be removed from the board, rather than as human beings: ‘I’m anti-war, so any discussion of killing is not for me.
When Harry spoke of shooting Taliban insurgents in 2013, the media referred to him as a “hero prince” a “action man” and a “swashbuckling royal” which is utterly bizarre.
A decade later (and now by the adversary), he is criticized for reiterating the same point.
Mr. Scobie added in his tweets: “And this is why context counts. As would be the case with any book, #SPARE may have leaked early, but the excerpts cited do not do the text justice.
Then, he distributed a leaked excerpt from the book that described Harry’s ‘problematic’ army training to ‘other-ize’ Taliban terrorists.
Prince Harry penned, “Afghanistan was a war of errors, a conflict with huge collateral damage – thousands of innocents were killed and injured, and this has always haunted us.
Therefore, my goal from the day I arrived was to never go to bed doubting that I had done the right thing, that my targets were accurate, and that I had only fired on Taliban.
He also explained how helicopter technology allowed him to know precisely how many people he had murdered and how his death count neither gave him “satisfaction” nor made him “ashamed.”
The book was published two weeks after Harry and Meghan’s explosive Netflix documentary, in which Harry accused the rest of the royal family of leaking allegations about his wife to the press to deflect attention from themselves.
The memoir of Prince Harry will be released on January 10 in the United Kingdom and throughout the world.
While amid the heat and confusion of battle, I did not consider those twenty-five individuals as individuals. You cannot kill people if you view them as individuals.
Some former troops have openly criticized Harry’s forthright remarks, claiming he has violated a “unwritten rule” by disclosing his murder count.
In addition to describing his time in Afghanistan, Harry’s memoir detailed an alleged event in which his brother knocked him to the ground, leaving him stunned and laying on a shattered dog bowl.
In addition, he said that the now-Prince of Wales had referred to Meghan as “difficult,” “rude,” and “abrasive.”
Harry claims that he and William assured Charles that they would welcome the now-Queen Consort into the family if he did not marry her, and “begged” him not to do so.
According to the Duke, his father did not reply to their pleadings.
In addition to royal secrets, the book offers a series of shocking accusations regarding the young prince’s drug use, including cocaine and magic mushrooms, and that he allegedly lost his virginity to an older lady in a pub field.
The personal experiences contained in Spare’s pages, according to Omid Scobie, “humanize” the royals, who have been “reduced to caricatures in a very public circus.”
The book was published two weeks after Harry and Meghan’s explosive Netflix docuseries, in which Harry accused the rest of the royal family of leaking allegations about his wife to the press in order to divert attention away from themselves.
Buckingham Palace refuses to comment on the series’ allegations.
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