Prince Harry’s memoirs, “Spared”, came out yesterday and are already breaking sales records / AP
The controversial biography of Britain’s Prince Harry became the best-selling nonfiction book on its first day in bookstores, with more than 400,000 copies shipped, publisher Transworld Penguin Random House said yesterday.
The firm’s executive director, Larry Finlay, assured the media that only the fictional books in the Harry Potter saga had sold faster than Enrique’s long-awaited memoirs, in which he uncovers some intimacies of the British royal family. .
Titled in Spanish “En la sombra” -in English “Spare” (replacement)-, the 38-year-old prince reveals that his brother Guillermo physically assaulted him and charges against some attitudes of his father, King Carlos III, towards him and his wife Meghan Markle. He also narrates that when he served as a soldier in Afghanistan he killed 25 Taliban. “We always knew this book would fly high, but it is exceeding even the most optimistic expectations,” Finlay stated.
Some big British chains, such as Waterstones and WHSmith, as well as the internet giant Amazon, halved the price of the book, from 28 to 14 pounds (from 34 to 17 dollars).
Part of the sales attributed to the first day are due to reservations made in advance and also include digital versions, both in written and audiobook format.
CONSTANTINE II OF GREECE DIED
On the other hand, the former King of Greece Constantine II, in power before the restoration of the Republic in 1974, died yesterday in Athens at the age of 82 due to a stroke. The former sovereign was a cousin of King Charles III of the United Kingdom and godfather of Prince William. A descendant of the royal family of Gluecksburg, Constantine was the brother of Sofía, mother of King Felipe VI of Spain.
