Prince Harry delivers the keynote address on Nelson Mandela International Day at the United Nations in New York on July 18, 2022
Prince Harry delivers the keynote address on Nelson Mandela International Day at the United Nations in New York on July 18, 2022 AFP / TIMOTHY A. CLARY

KEY POINTS

  • GB News host Nana Akua called Prince Harry a "professional victim" on her show
  • She claimed she has no interest in reading what "a man who is considerably richer" than most people has to say
  • Akua called Prince Harry ungrateful for releasing his book just months after Queen Elizabeth died

A TV host slammed Prince Harry after details of his upcoming memoir were released.

Publisher Penguin Random House announced Thursday that the Duke of Sussex's highly anticipated tell-all is titled "Spare" and that it will be out early next year.

The memoir's title has since raised eyebrows and led some royal experts to speculate that Prince Harry may talk about "living in the shadow" of his older brother Prince William, the heir to the British throne.

Among those unimpressed by the fact that Prince Harry is releasing a memoir just two years after quitting royal duties to become financially independent was GB News presenter Nana Akua, who slammed the Duke of Sussex as a "professional victim" on her show.

"Having walked away from a job that meant he didn't actually need to have any money on him to a lifestyle that requires him to actually work for a living, what a shocker that must have come as, with nothing but the fact that he's a prince as his real credentials. Yes, he has been in the army, but he left the U.K. and that doesn't really pay well anyway. He's resorted to selling his soul," Akua claimed of Prince Harry's book.

The TV host went on to say she has no interest in reading what "a man who is considerably richer" than most people and who went on to marry a woman who "appeared to have the effect of decimating" the royal family has to say.

"He's run away from the U.K. and is now selling his soul to make ends meet because he's finally discovered that things cost money, especially if he wants to live next door to Oprah [Winfrey]," Akua continued. "It should be called 'Spare Us.' Spare us the details. I'm absolutely not helping to fund this lifestyle of whinging."

Akua also called Prince Harry ungrateful for releasing his book just months after his father King Charles III lost his mother and Harry's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, in September.

Prince Harry's book was initially set to be released in November, but it was pushed back to next year out of respect for the late monarch.

"Harry will want to take out certain passages that involve Queen Elizabeth, out of respect for her. Plus, he will want to describe his feelings about the Queen's passing," an unnamed publishing source told Page Six in September.

However, another publishing source told the outlet that Prince Harry "would never write anything bad about the Queen," adding that the duke "always has had the utmost love and respect for her."

Prince Harry's biographer Angela Levin, however, expressed her disapproval of the title the Duke of Sussex chose for his memoir, calling it "derogatory."

"I think it's a tragedy that he's used that title," Levin said of Prince Harry on Sky News Australia. "I mean, does he still feel like that, having left the royal family, found a woman he's absolutely besotted by, got two children, an enormous house and all the freedom he wants? What he's doing is looking back and hanging on to it."

"It's nonsense," the royal expert added. "Harry was the next most popular to the Queen. He liked to muck about, liked to be a bit naughty. He was full of energy. When I wrote his biography [from] 2017 to 2018, he just was a live wire, fantastic with people of all ages, all sorts, so it sounds so derogatory to call yourself spare as if nobody wanted you."

"Spare" will hit shelves on Jan. 10, 2023.

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