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Prince Harry's Ghostwriter JR Moehringer Defends Book After Criticism Over Inaccuracies | Ents & Arts News

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The man who ghostwritten Prince Harry for his Spare memoirs has defended the book online, following criticism that some of the Duke of Sussex’s claims were inaccurate.

JR Moehringer was asked to write as a ghost from harry autobiography Spare, after previously writing for the likes of tennis star Andre Agassi, as well as writing her own novels.

In Spare, Harry said he was descended from King Henry VI, but critics pointed out on social media that this was impossible as the king only had one son, Edward of Westminster, who died in battle aged 17 before having any children. .

Copies of the Duke of Sussex's recently released autobiography, entitled Spare, on display at Waterstones Piccadilly, London, as it goes on sale to the public for the first time.  Photo date: Tuesday, January 10, 2023.

Also in the book, Harry claimed he offered to buy his wife Meghan’s father, Thomas Markle, a first-class ticket from Mexico to the UK on Air New Zealand.

But the airline said it never operated flights between Mexico and Britain.

American Moehringer, a former Pulitzer Prize winner for newspaper writing, shared several quotes on Twitter, which appear to reference criticisms of inaccuracies in some aspects of Harry’s story.

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A quote from Harry that Moehringer shared from the Duke’s book said: “Whatever the cause, my memory is my memory, it does what it does, gathers and heals as it pleases, and there is so much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as it exists in so-called objective facts Things like chronology and cause and effect are often just fables we tell ourselves about the past.

He also shared a quote from Harry that read: “Landscape, geography, architecture, that’s how my memory rolls. Dates? especially when it comes to the nineties.”

Moehringer, 58, used a quote from Mary Karr of The Art Of Memoir that said: “Neurologist Jonathan Mink, M.D., explained to me that with memories as intense as David’s, we often register emotion alone, all the details blurred. in unreadable smudges.”

And another quote from Karr, also shared by Moehringer, read: “The line between memory and fact is a fine one, between interpretation and fact.”

Moehringer seems to be suggesting that Prince Harry remembered the events of his life to the best of his memory and ability.

Elsewhere, he retweets people who say “these ‘factual errors’ that have been pointed out are not necessarily actual errors in the context of an autobiographical account”, as well as those who say they are enjoying his work.

The prince’s autobiography, which contained bombshell revelations about the royal family, leaked and was sold early by some booksellers in Spain.

On Tuesday, the book was declared the best-selling non-fiction book of all timeselling over 400,000 copies in hardcover, ebook, and audio formats on its first day of publication.

Queues of fans formed before stores opened at midnight for the official release of the controversial memoir.

Prince Harry book’s main revelations

  • Duke admits to using cocaine – saying it “wasn’t much fun”
  • He claims to have killed 25 people in Afghanistan during his two terms.
  • He says he asked his father not to marry Camila – and his brother made the same request
  • He describes how King Charles told him that Meghan shouldn’t go to Balmoral after the Queen’s death.
  • He recalled the moment he found out that his mother, Princess Diana, had been in a car accident.
  • He says he lost his virginity to an older woman in a field behind a busy pub
  • He accuses Prince William of overthrowing him during an argument over the Duchess of Sussex

Despite his explosive revelations, the duke said in his first print interview since publication that he “would like nothing more” than for his children to have relationships with the Real family.

He told People magazine that three-year-old Archie and 19-month-old Lilibet had a connection to some of the Windsors, whom he did not name, saying it brought him “great joy”.

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