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Salon
Lifestyle
Melanie McFarland

How US media favored Harry the "Spare"

Prince Harry represents everything American audiences love. Being the "spare" to his brother Prince William's "heir" makes him an underdog. He's a former substance abuser living a better life and extolling the virtues of therapy. He's also a wealthy man who, by all appearances, has a good heart. No wonder the press on both sides of the pond wants to devour him.

Each stop on his recent Stateside media tour to promote his bestselling memoir "Spare" proves this while also showing how he's "feeding the beast" in one country and leading it on a tether in the other.  As The Economist's review puts it, with "Spare" U.K. press. "had an embarrassment of riches; Harry had the riches of embarrassment."

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