Welcome to the Windsors as told by one of them, Prince Harry.
Mathilde Cousin, journalist at
20 Minutes
, read the memoirs of Charles III's youngest son, Harry of Sussex.
Entitled in French
Le Suppléant,
and published on Tuesday, they are a success, with 400,000 copies sold on the day of publication.
Answers to old accusations
In this 541-page book, a fight with her brother, the conditions of the loss of her virginity, her drug use, her opposition to her father's remarriage were highlighted... That would be to forget, underlines Mathilde Cousin in our podcast "Minute Butterfly !
“, the guiding thread of this book: the trauma linked to the death of his mother, Princess Diana, and a violent charge against British newspapers and royal advisers who organized a media system around the royal family.
What can we learn from these memoirs, which are part of a communication strategy intended to blast the image of the famous British family?
Between interviews, documentaries on Netflix, books, where is the prince's com plan going?
For what effects?
And what limits?
Listen to the journalist's answers in this episode.
Revealed, sometimes embarrassing intimacy
Mathilde Cousin first returns to the title of the book
Spare
, translated into French by
Le Suppléant
.
“The substitute is a reference to a royal tradition anchored for generations.
The heir to the throne has several children.
The first will be his heir.
And a second, nicknamed, in a cruel way, the "substitute".
Its function: to replace this heir, if the latter were to abdicate or disappear…”
Listen to the rest of this interview in the audio player below, good listening!
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