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The Guardian - UK
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Catherine Bennett

Out with the Sussexes, in with the Parker Bowleses. Revenge is sweet for Charles and Camilla

Camilla, then Duchess of Cornwall, at Cheltenham races in 2015 with son Tom Parker Bowles and daughter Laura Lopes.
‘Harry should have thought before he insulted the house of Parker Bowles’: Camilla, then Duchess of Cornwall, at Cheltenham races in 2015 with son Tom Parker Bowles and daughter Laura Lopes. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

The much hoped-for new edition of Spare must be writing itself. “‘Darling boy,’ Pa said. “This is a section 21 notice. You’re being evicted. Your attack on my darling wife was unconscionable. The new tenant, Prince Andrew, wishes to keep the copper bath.’”

Given the wealth of new material and the potentially liberating impact of Charles’s revenge, an entirely new book, Spare 2: Exiled, would probably be a better commercial decision for Random House once Harry has finished promoting volume one. The same week his family’s eviction from Windsor was revealed, he was preparing for an online session with physician Gabor Maté on “personal healing” and telling a US interviewer that he’d like to be reincarnated as an elephant.

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