Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I always found Prince Harry interesting, he always stood out to me in pictures, probably the proximity in age. My mom was a huge, huge fan of Lady Di so I was familiar. Growing up, I remember the press always made him out to be the naughty younger brother, to me he was like the Home Alone kid. I definitely liked him, but reading his story made feel very saddened. He’s a bit childlike at times, which is understandable. I truly empathize and the book changed my perspective. To be 100% honest, I bought the book out of curiosity because the media, even the ones who seem objective like the NYT, try so hard to tell us we should move on, that Meghan and Harry have nothing to say. I agree Meghan has nothing to say. I’m sorry Meghan, your story’s just meh. Prince Harry though is another story. He is no Shakespeare, truth be told. But wow… a kid with all of that wealth and privilege who was so unloved. He doesn’t say it, but that’s it. He was unloved, to him the only person who truly loved him was his mom (and probably Meghan now). He lost that person who truly, truly loved him. How can anyone not expect him to overreact when he feels like he will lose the second person who he thinks loves him most? Of course he will fight to protect it. He talks about his mental health, he is not perfect, this is a flawed human being…like most of us, no? He had a terrible, terrible life that was and is a circus. He did not choose that lifestyle, it was forced on him. He did not choose to be born, much less into that family. He has all the right in the world to get out of it, and tell this story. I was unloved and I felt it, I know what it feels like to be misunderstood but worst of all for your family not to care enough about you to understand you. To have no one to share, or if you shared or opened up there would be emotional consequences. And I think no one that has not distinctly gone through that can understand the pain (and confusion) it causes. Harry had all the material stuff in the world. Yes, he had the best life, education, everything money could buy. But he had a broken home life, a depressed and sometimes suicidal mother, a virtually emotionally absent father, and a completely ridiculous extended family. Plus, a media circus that was out there waiting for him to mess up. All the time. 24/7. How can anyone say that’s not a big deal… I hope this book brings him closure. I hope he moves on with his life and becomes a better father to his children than his father was to him. And I hope he becomes the person he wanted, the opposite of the naughty child the press wanted him to be. But this was a necessary telling of his story, if someone with as much privilege as Royal has such a heartbreakingly cold and sad upbringing, can we keep calling it privilege? He has no right to complain just because he was born into a family with a lot, a lot of money? That’s sad.