On what Prince Charles said to Princess Diana on Harry's birthday:
"Wonderful. Now you have given me an heir and a spare, my work is done."
On how Charles told Harry about his mother's death:
“Dad didn’t hug me. He didn't know how to show emotions under normal circumstances. How could he be expected to manifest them in such a crisis? But his hand fell on my knee, and he said: “Everything will be fine” … Fatherly, hopefully, kindly. And very untrue."
On paranoia in the royal family:
“Fear of the public. Fear of the future. Fear of the day when the nation will say, 'OK, close that shop'."
On how correspondents didn't come to Diana's aid after the disaster:
“They didn’t stop filming her while she lay between the seats, unconscious or semi-conscious… None of them checked her, offered her help, didn’t even console her. They just clicked their cameras over and over again.”
On the final report on the circumstances of the death of Princess Diana:
“This is some kind of joke and insult … It was replete with elementary factual errors and gaping logical holes … It raised more questions than it answered.”
On his relationship with Camille:
“When we were asked, Willy and I promised dad that we would take Camilla into the family … The only thing we asked in return was that he not marry her. Don't get married again, we begged… We support you, we said. We support Camille, we said. Just please don't marry her."
On his father's reluctance to continue funding Harry and Meghan:
“The Pope may have been terrified of the rising costs of our upkeep, but what he really could not bear was that someone would take a leading position in the monarchy, be in the spotlight, someone brilliant and new would come and outshine him” .
On being abused by his older brother during an argument over Meghan:
“Willy called me some more names and then lashed out at me. Everything happened so fast. Very fast. He grabbed me by the collar, breaking the chain on me, and knocked me to the floor. I landed on a dog bowl that cracked under my back, the pieces biting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told Willie to get out."
On a rare fight with Meghan early in their relationship:
“Meg said something that I took wrong, so I yelled at her, spoke to her rudely and cruelly. Megan left the room. I found her upstairs. She was sitting in the bedroom. She was calm, but said in a quiet, even tone that she would never tolerate being spoken to like that… She wanted to know where it came from. I told her that I didn't know. “Have you ever heard a man talk to a woman like that? Did you hear adults talking like that when you were a child?” she asked. I cleared my throat and turned away. Yes, I heard…”
On the Taliban killed while serving in Afghanistan:
“Most soldiers can't tell exactly how many deaths are on their ledger. My number: – 25 … In the heat of battle, I did not think of these twenty-five as people. You cannot kill people if you think of them as human beings. They were supposed to be perceived as chess pieces removed from the board. They were villains to me who needed to be removed so that they could not kill good people. I was trained in such an attitude towards them, trained well. On some level, I was aware of this learned detachment as a problem. But I also considered it an inevitable part of being a soldier.”
On youthful experimentation with cocaine and other drugs:
“There was no fun in it, and it didn’t make me happy like it seemed to happen to others, but it made me feel different, and that was my main goal… to feel. Be different. I was a 17-year-old teenager, ready to try almost anything that would break the established order. At least I tried to convince myself of that."
About the effect of the use of "magic mushrooms":
“Next to the toilet was a round silver trash can with a pedal to open the lid. I stared at it, and it stared at me. Then it became… a head. I stepped on the pedal and the head opened its mouth, a huge open grin. I laughed, turned away, peed. Now the toilet has also become a head. The bowl was his gaping mouth, the hinges of the seat were his piercing silver eyes. The toilet said, "Ahh."
On how Charles deliberately leaked information about Harry's drug experiments so that journalists would forget about his adultery:
“Dad will no longer be an unfaithful husband, now he will appear before the world in the form of an exhausted single father trying to cope with a drug addicted child.”
On losing his virginity at a young age:
“A humiliating episode with an elderly horse lover who treated me like a young stallion. I quickly mounted her and did my thing, after which she slapped my ass and sent me away. One of my many mistakes was to let it happen in a field, right behind a very busy pub. No doubt someone saw us."
On the consequences of traveling to the North Pole:
“Arriving home, I was horrified to find that something below the abdomen was also frostbite, and if the ears and cheeks were already healing, then the “baby” was not.”
(Readers learned from the book that Harry, in keeping with a long tradition of royalty, was circumcised as a child.)
