{"id":600757,"date":"2025-11-29T06:31:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/600757\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T06:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:31:27","slug":"prince-harry-reveals-which-royal-gave-him-brutal-nickname-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/600757\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry reveals which royal gave him brutal nickname | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry’s<\/a> feelings about his treatment as the second-born son have always been clear – and they became even more so after he chose to name his bombshell memoir Spare<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The spare to the heir is a well-known royal phrase. It means that any child born after their sibling, the heir, is a second to them if something should happen. While there have been many famous spares throughout history, including the late Queen’s<\/a> father, King George VI<\/a>, the word is now largely tied to Harry’s controversial memoir.<\/p>\n

The nickname appears to have always been a sticking point for the Duke<\/a>, so much so that he used his tell-all book to reveal which member of his family first called him it.<\/p>\n

He disclosed that it was actually his father, King Charles<\/a>, who used the nickname, in response to Diana, Princess of Wales<\/a>, giving birth to a second son. Harry claimed that his father’s reaction was: “Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an heir and a spare – my work is done.”<\/p>\n

Writing further about his feelings of 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

Elsewhere in his explosive book, Prince Harry<\/a> recalled other memories of his life growing up in the Royal Family, including one Christmas when he received a “cold-blooded” gift from Princess Margaret<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Harry wrote about being given a pen with a small rubber fish wrapped around it and described the gesture as “cold-blooded”. Writing about his grandmother’s beloved sister, Harry said he felt: “nothing for her, except a bit of pity and a lot of jumpiness.”<\/p>\n

His family Christmas celebrations featured again in his 2023 memoir as he revealed that he and Meghan “FaceTimed with several friends, including a few in Britain. We watched Archie<\/a> running around the tree. And we opened presents. Keeping to the Windsor family tradition.”<\/p>\n

He went on: “The whole family gathered to open gifts on Christmas Eve, as always, a German tradition that survived the anglicising of the family surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry’s feelings about his treatment as the second-born son have always been clear – and they became…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[447,115308,12473,10765,2655,12472,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-600757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-prince-harry","9":"tag-prince-harry-book","10":"tag-prince-harry-latest","11":"tag-prince-harry-memoir","12":"tag-prince-harry-news","13":"tag-prince-harry-spare","14":"tag-royal","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115631586196706125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}