Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

More touching and quite a bit sadder than I would have imagined going in. I thought it would be "just" an autobiography, but it's much more. Harry has important things to say about family, dysfunction, and taking steps to fix your life and the lives of the next generation. The BRF is incredibly dysfunctional; it creates unhappy, damaged people who live in unimaginable luxury and wealth that they didn't earn. They have a sick, destructive, Faustian relationship with the press. They're literally willing to destroy their family members for good press coverage, and Prince Harry is far from the only victim. The tabloids hurt people of all walks of life, and are like acid eating away at civility and community, putting their targets against everyone else. Reading about Harry's like, it struck me that the idea of deciding what a child's life will be like with no input from the child living that life, based only on that child's birth order is insane. Children in the BRF are groomed to benefit their families over themselves to the point that they have to get permission to marry. They can't have interests that lead to jobs outside of the "family". As small children, they're sent away from their parents to school, but expected to never leave as adults. The entire system is sick and warped. The idea that a person who never asked for it must sacrifice their life so that their family can live in palaces is warped. This is a system that cannot produce healthy adults. The fact that Harry walked away and set his own course is nothing short of amazing. He's brave for getting help for his grief and for the warped way he was raised. Sometimes bravery is telling the plain truth and letting the chips fall where they may. This is one of those times. I've read many in the media saying that this is airing dirty laundry. Why should an abused person have to hide? Good on Harry for his courage, strength, and willingness to live a healthy life on his own terms.