Fans queued throughout the night to get their hands on a hardback copy of the Duke of Sussex’s autobiography when it hit shelves at midnight.
Shops across the country reopened at 12am on Tuesday for the official release of Prince Harry's controversial memoir Spare. A handful of people waited outside WH Smith in Victoria station, central London, to be one of the first to buy a copy of the book, which contains a flood of bombshell revelations and intimately private details about Harry’s life and family.
Shop staff opened the doors to a swarm of reporters and customers who gathered around stacks of the book, which were sitting on a table wrapped in sealed black packaging. The first customers were handed copies as photographers captured the moment before the staff started putting half price stickers onto copies and unloading them onto specially-designed shelving units near the front of the shop.
