Fraternal envy is as old as mankind.

The details of Prince Harry's explosive disclosure document, which was accidentally put up for sale prematurely for a short period of time in Spain, have so far been leaked and translated from Spain has taken a dramatic, modern turn.

Gina Thomas

Features correspondent based in London.

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The history of British royalty is never-ending when it comes to family strife, with rulers or rivals murdering or sidestepping their own brothers, fathers, sons, nephews or wives, as was the case most recently with the abdication of Edward VIII, who was his great-great-nephew as well as Shakespeare's Prince Hal, aka the young Henry V.

Two opposing perspectives collide

Harry alleges that his grandmother, the late Queen Elizabeth, was the one who caused her uncle, who "renounced the crown for love," to be buried far away from the other tombs in the royal cemetery after his death Windsor was laid to rest.

Harry sees this as a "final scolding" for the ancestor.

In the past, these ranks were usually about power.

With Harry, however, it is more of a relentless struggle for moral authority in a conflict in which two perspectives collide: the well-treated, open-minded Californian way of life that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have made their own, and the rigidity of the crown , thus an institution that feels committed to the old British school of the stiff upper lip.

In Harry's war against his parents' home, he makes even the most personal things public, even if the revelations affect others.

His most recent weapon, his autobiographical book Spare, has been compared in the English press to a hand grenade thrown at royalty.

Several days before the planned publication date of January 10, when the book is to be published simultaneously in sixteen countries, it has now become clear that the prince's memories exceed all fears.

Harry portrays his father as a helpless, emotionally crippled old man. He accuses a "scheming" Camilla of sacrificing her stepson for her public relations work.

And he claims that his "beloved brother", who is portrayed as irascible, is not only the exact opposite of him, but his archenemy, who was in a relationship with him that he understood as a personal Olympics.

In view of these allegations, the exciting question is how and whether Charles III.

and William can regain sovereignty over the narrative without further penalties.

The title of Harry's book says it all.

In it he refers to the old saying of the nobility, according to which the succession must be secured by the procreation of an heir and a surrogate.

"Spare" also means superfluous in English.

From this alone speaks the deep resentment of the second-born towards the heir to the throne.

Harry will soon be forty years old, but he's acting like a child screaming because the older one took his toy away.

In this combination of victim narrative and confession, the reader is spared nothing, including the trifles that occur in every family.

The others are always to blame.

Even his defloration, Harry considers a form of abuse.

When he says he was blinded before Meghan opened his eyes, he sounds like the brainwashed recruit of a cult.