How You Feel Now is Not How You Will Feel Always: Prince Harry, the Pitfalls of Memoir, and the Ethics of the Ghostwriter
hugoschwyzer.substack.com
Prince Harry’s memoir comes out on Tuesday. I have a few thoughts. You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. Anne Lamott, the celebrated essayist and novelist, wrote those words nearly 30 years ago,
I just finished it. I feel like he's really gonna regret it in time. It makes me kind of sad.
A lot of wisdom here, well expressed. Including wisdom about the way you talk about your own past
Btw I find it odd the way you refer to yourself as a “lad” or a “well brought up lad” or even a “gentleman”. Seems a bit affected and archaic