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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Helen Sullivan

Prince Harry’s ghostwriter, JR Moehringer, says pair bonded over media intrusion

Copies of Spare by Prince Harry on display at a bookstore.
Copies of Spare by Prince Harry on display at a bookstore. His ghostwriter, J R Moehringer, says prince wanted memoir to be ‘a rebuttal to every lie ever published about him’. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images

Prince Harry’s ghostwriter has said he bonded with his subject over the “callousness” of paparazzi and media after the “frenzied mob” around the book Spare led to photographers and journalists invading his own privacy.

In a first-person piece for the New Yorker, JR Moehringer, the celebrated ghostwriter behind Spare said he agreed to write Harry’s memoir because he “just liked the dude” and had recently lost his own mother.

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