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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Susie Lau

“A lifetime’s worth of explosive family get-togethers compacted into a memoir”, Susie Lau weighs in on Spare

By now, we’ve ALL (and by all I mean everyone who isn’t living under a heaving igneous rock), voluntarily or not, absorbed at least an iota of the Harry/Meghan drama — whether it’s filtered through the Netflix documentary, the memoir (officially the UK’s fastest selling non-fiction book ever), the big interviews or the many, MANY media op-eds, rehashed click-bait listicles and social media reverberations that have gone down.

When the Uber driver — who normally would rather chat to his wife on speaker phone — from out of the blue instigates conversation, ‘So do you think Prince Harry has gone too far?’ because they’re itching to talk to ANYONE about the topic du jour, you know it has reached peak popularity. Even when you express how bored and uninterested you are about the whole subject, you’ve still unwittingly fallen into the Haz and Meg hole.

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