Prince Harry’s ghostwriter is addressing the differences between ‘memory and fact’ as replacement memoir errors make headlines.
JR Moehringer took to Twitter on Wednesday to remove “inadvertent errors” with a quote from The art of memories by Mary Karr.
“The line between memory and fact is blurred, interpretation and fact,” reads the excerpt.
“There are inadvertent errors like that out the wazoo.”
The tweet came a day after the 38-year-old Duke of Sussex’s memoir hit US shelves.
Harry didn’t hold back on his bombshell, even accusing Prince William of physically assaulting him in 2019.
Eagle-eyed readers have accused the former military pilot of making “factual errors” in the memoir.
The Duke, for example, claimed he was at boarding school when he learned of the Queen Mother’s death in March 2002, with several reports setting the record straight.
The then-teenager was on a skiing trip to Switzerland at the time with William and King Charles III.
Harry also wrote that King Henry VI was his “great-great-grandfather”, but many social media users have pointed out that the sovereign only had one son, who died in battle before having children. of his own
“Prince Harry can’t even check his own family tree as he continues to be under the impression that he is descended from King Henry VI, whose son died childless at 17,” one person wrote. “But of course, we all believe.”
Additionally, Air New Zealand clarified to the New Zealand Herald that it “never operated flights” between Mexico and Britain after Harry recalled buying a “first class ticket” for Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas Markle.
The prince has yet to address the inaccuracies, telling Stephen Colbert on Tuesday that his book is “history [getting] it’s right.”
Twitter users mocked that statement in their responses to Moehringer’s tweet.
“The problem with his facts isn’t that he’s writing this for ‘history,'” wrote one, while another called the excuse “gashlighting.”
Others, however, praised it Tender Bar author to help Harry “speak his truth so clearly”.
Buckingham Palace told Page Six last week that it would not comment on any allegations in “Spare.”
This article originally appeared in the New York Post and is reproduced here with permission
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