Prince Harry's army instructor says Duke's recollection of training in Spare is 'complete fantasy' - Daily Mail

In Spare the Duke of Sussex recalls a flight in which Sergeant Major Michael Booley deliberately stalled the Slingsby T67 Firefly propeller plane he was piloting with 'no warning', leaving him questioning whether it was an 'aborted suicide attempt'.

It was circulated by Clarence House on the day the story broke in October 2004 and begins: ‘It is not true that Harry cheated in his exam.’ It roundly dismissed what it called ‘unfounded allegations by a teacher in the context of a dispute with the school.’

Setting the scene for a confrontation with Charles and William at Frogmore Cottage after Prince Philip’s funeral, Harry describes how the Queen had consigned the exiled Duke and Duchess of Windsor to a remote corner of the burial ground.

While Harry’s description is perhaps more accurate than Meghan’s (she told Oprah Winfrey ‘three days before our wedding, we got married’), it’s also at odds with Lambeth Palace’s view: the archbishop was merely conducting a ‘rehearsal’ during which — as is normal — the couple recited their vows.

Instead, the prince appears to now inhabit a parallel universe where he and Meghan have never, ever accused his relatives of racism: when Tom Bradby broached the subject during ITV’s interview, Harry insisted, ‘No, I didn’t’, adding ‘the British Press said that’.

Quite how he squares that claim with his recent decision to attend a glamorous charity event in New York where he and Meghan were presented with a gong for, among other things, their ‘heroic’ efforts standing up to ‘structural racism’ is — like so much about this gripping but flawed book — anyone’s guess.