COMMENT | Umno 'spares', just don’t rock the boat now

COMMENT | Prince Harry took it all out on his family in his memoir, Spare, launched on Jan 10. Rightly or wrongly and for whatever reason he did it, it’s not my place to judge him – let the Brits examine their prince’s actions and conscience.

The book has been described as one of the weirdest, most thrilling and most heartbreaking revelations.

In a nutshell, the Duke of Sussex and the younger son of King Charles III detailed in his memoir how he was considered a “spare” in the Royal Family and that he and his wife suffered humiliation and were trampled upon by certain powerful persons in the royal household.

Prince Harry (above, with his wife Meghan) called the book Spare because he was a spare and his elder brother, Prince William, was the Number One. Nobody wants to be considered a “spare” – not Harry, not you, not me and certainly not the many ambitious (and overly ambitious) politicians in our midst.

A spare is unimportant and can be dispensed of. A spare is kept in reserve, especially for emergency use as it is more than is needed, desired or required...