He noted that "Harry won the heart of my daughter, Gracie, with his vast Moana scholarship his favorite scene, he told her, is when Heihei, the silly chicken, finds himself lost at sea." Moehringer stayed with Harry and Meghan at their Montecito home multiple times over the course of writing the book-once accompanied by his wife and children, and twice by himself. He later added, "In retrospect, though, I think I selfishly welcomed the idea of being able to speak with someone, an expert, about that never-ending feeling of wishing you could call your mom." Princess Diana had died twenty-three years before our first conversation, and my mother, Dorothy Moehringer, had just died, and our griefs felt equally fresh," he wrote. We did, and there was, I think, a surprising reason. The author added that the two bonded in their shared grief over their mothers Moehringer's mom had recently died when he and Harry first met. The way he’d been treated, by both strangers and intimates, was grotesque." "I found his story, as he outlined it in broad strokes, relatable and infuriating. I called him dude right away it made him chuckle," he said.
Moehringer Kevin Winter // Getty Imagesĭespite the occasional editorial disagreements with Harry, Moehringer wrote that his impression of the prince was generally a positive one. Harry relented, then cheekily joked to the writer afterwards, "I really enjoy getting you worked up like that." In the end, Moehringer convinced the royal to exclude the witticism from the passage, arguing that it unnecessarily detracts from the story's narrative power. Finally, he exhaled and calmly explained that, all his life, people had belittled his intellectual capabilities, and this flash of cleverness proved that, even after being kicked and punched and deprived of sleep and food, he had his wits about him. Although this wasn’t the first time that Harry and I had argued, it felt different it felt as if we were hurtling toward some kind of decisive rupture, in part because Harry was no longer saying anything. Harry insisted that this part of the book end with a witty comeback he hurled back at the captor, but Moehringer disagreed. He is beaten, starved, stripped, and-at one point-the pretend captors hurl insults at him, one of which is a "vile dig" at his late mother, Princess Diana. The two reached an impasse over a specific section in the book, in which Harry is in the midst of a brutal military training that simulates the experience of being kidnapped and tortured by terrorists.
Moehringer recalls a late night Zoom session with Harry to go over the book's edits.
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The essay illuminates his close relationship with the royal, from the fight that almost ended their professional relationship to what it was like to temporarily live with Harry and Duchess Meghan in their California home. Moehringer-also the author of The Tender Bar-opened up about writing the book with the Duke of Sussex for two years. In a new essay published by the New Yorker, J. The ghostwriter for Prince Harry's tell-all memoir, Spare, is clearing the record.
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