No new juicy details in Prince Harry’s paperback edition of memoir

Published Aug 28, 2024  •  2 minute read

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, speaks during the 'Responsible Digital Future' forum in Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 15, 2024. Photo by RAUL ARBOLEDA / AFP /Getty Images

The first paperback edition of Prince Harry’s international bestseller Spare will be hitting store shelves in October.

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However, the memoir is not being updated to include additional juicy details about him or the royal family.

“The new edition will have the same cover image as the hardcover edition, a newly designed package and the contents of the book are unchanged,” publisher Penguin Random House said in an update Tuesday.

The paperback edition will be available in North America on Oct. 22.

More than six million copies of Spare have been sold in all formats across the world following its Jan. 10, 2023, release, according to the publisher. It also holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest selling nonfiction book of all-time.

The Duke of Sussex’s more sensational details from the memoir included losing his virginity to a much older woman on a patch of grass behind a bar.

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“Inglorious episode,” Prince Harry wrote, reported Page Six. “She liked horses, quite a lot, and treated me not unlike a young stallion.”

He added the woman smacked his butt after the “quick ride” and “sent me to grace.”

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Prince Harry also detailed a heated exchange with his brother, Prince William, over the Duke of Sussex’s wife Meghan Markle, according to The Guardian.

The alleged incident occurred in London in 2019, when William called his wife “difficult,” “rude,” and “abrasive,” Harry wrote. He added that the confrontation escalated when his brother “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor,” which resulted in a visible injury to his back.

The Duke of Sussex also claimed trying cocaine for the first time when he was 17, according to the U.K. Sun.

“At someone’s house, during a hunting weekend, I was offered a line, and since then I had consumed some more,” he wrote, according to a translation of a Spanish copy of the book.

“It wasn’t very fun, and it didn’t make me feel especially happy as seemed to happen to others, but it did make me feel different, and that was my main objective.”

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