The memoir reveals that Charles had discouraged his younger son from university instead suggested he take a gap year in Australia
It has already become the fastest-selling nonfiction book ever, recording figures of 400,000 on its first day on sale in the UK.
The memoir, which has attracted international headlines for the past week, revealed that Charles had discouraged his younger son from attending university after leaving school and instead suggested he take a gap year. A young Prince Harry earned the nickname “Spike” after an encounter with an echidna while he was a jackeroo in Australia in 2003.Despite planning to spend six months in Australia, Harry’s trip was cut short with the appearance of paparazzi camping out and invading the Hills family privacy only about nine weeks into his stay.“At first light we’d saddle up, gallop to the edges of the forty thousand acres and begin to muster,” he says.
He was also treated as an equal, sharing the family home and asked to perform the daily chores expected of other station members.While visiting Sydney to watch the Rugby World Cup, he posed for a photo with an echidna at Taronga Zoo, which had earned him the name “Spike” on the farm because of his stand-up red hair at the time.
He also explains to readers the lingo involved with life on the land, with a steer a young neutered male cattle primarily raised for beef and a weaner was a calf newly split from its mother.“I spent a lot of late 2003 sitting high in the saddle, watching a weaner while sucking a smoko and dreaming of my next tucker,” he writes.“The only job that I did not take care of, the only difficult task that I avoided, was cutting their testicles,” he writes.
“I thanked the Hills family for nine of the best weeks of my life and flew home, arriving just before Christmas.”, which cut short his first deployment to Afghanistan by breaking a worldwide media embargo in February 2008.
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