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Prince Harry’s resentment about his status as the second-born son has always been evident – and became even more apparent when he decided to title his explosive memoir Spare.<\/p>\n
The spare to the heir represents a well-established royal<\/a> expression. It signifies that any child born following their sibling, the heir, serves as their backup should anything occur.<\/p>\n While numerous notable spares have existed throughout history, including the late Queen<\/a>‘s father, King George VI, the term is now primarily associated with Harry’s contentious memoir.<\/a><\/p>\n The moniker seems to have consistently troubled the Duke, so much that he utilized his revealing book to disclose which family member initially dubbed him with it.<\/p>\n He revealed that it was his father, King Charles, who employed the nickname, responding to Diana, Princess of Wales, delivering a second son.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Harry alleged that his father’s reaction was, “Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an heir and a spare – my work is done.”<\/p>\n Elaborating on his emotions about being the “spare,” Harry explained, “They would say it without a spirit of judgement, but straight out. I was the shadow, the supporting actor, the plan B. I was brought into this world in case something happened to Willy.”<\/p>\n In another section of his bombshell book, Prince Harry<\/a> recounted additional recollections of his childhood within the royal family, including one Christmas when he received a “cold-blooded” gift from Princess Margaret, reports the Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Harry wrote about receiving a pen adorned with a small rubber fish, describing the act as “cold-blooded.”<\/p>\n He expressed his feelings towards his grandmother’s beloved sister, stating, “Nothing for her, except a bit of pity and a lot of jumpiness.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In his 2023 memoir, he revisited family Christmas celebrations, revealing that he and Meghan “FaceTimed with several friends, including a few in Britain. We watched Archie running around the tree. And we opened presents. Keeping to the Windsor family tradition.”<\/p>\n He continued, “The whole family gathered to open gifts on Christmas Eve, as always, a German tradition that survived the anglicizing of the family surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.the-express.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prince Harry’s resentment about his status as the second-born son has always been evident – and became even more apparent when he decided to title his explosive memoir Spare. The spare to the heir represents a well-established royal expression. It signifies that any child born following their sibling, the heir, serves as their backup should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2180774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[29138,338913,338912,183049,22730],"class_list":["post-2180773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-british-royal-family","tag-celebrity-news-section","tag-entertainment-section","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-prince-harry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Prince-Harry-explains-which-royal-gave-him-spare-nickname.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180775,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180773\/revisions\/2180775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}