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15. My mother legendarily said there were three people in her marriage. But her maths was off. She left Willy and me out of the equation. We didnt understand what was going on with her and Pa, certainly, but we intuited enough,we sensed the presence
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16. In the early autumn of 1998, having completed my education at Ludgrove the previous spring, Ientered Eton. A profound shock. The finest school in the world for boys, Eton was meant to be a shock, I think. Shock mustvebeen part of its original cha
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17. Many of the sixty boys in Manor House were as welcoming as Willy. Their indifference, however,didnt unsettle me as much as their ease. Even the ones my age acted as if theyd been born on theschool grounds. Ludgrove had its problems, but at least
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18. The game required a bat, a tennis ball, and a total disregard for ones physical safety. There werefour players: a bowler, a batsman, and two fielders stationed mid-corridor, each with one foot inthe corridor and one in a room. Not always our room
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19. I didnt think it could get worse. What a grievous mistake it is for a member of the Royal Family,when considering the media, to imagine that things cant get worse. Weeks later the samenewspaper put me on the front page again. HARRYS HAD AN ACCIDE
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20. I forget who used the word first. Someone in the press, probably. Or one of my teachers. Whoeverit took hold and circulated. Id been cast in my role in the Rolling Royal Melodrama. Longbefore I was old enough to drink a beer (legally) it became d
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21. Mustve been early spring, 1999. I mustve been home from Eton for the weekend. I woke to find Pa on the edge of my bed, saying I was going back to Africa. Africa, Pa? Yes, darling boy. Why? It was the same old problem, he explained. I was facing a
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22. Marko, the largest member of the group, also laughed the loudest. There was some ratio betweenthe size of his body and the radius of his bellows. Also, there was a similar link between thevolume of his voice and the bright shade of his hair. I wa
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23. Like me, Marko had a sweet tooth. Like me, he particularly loved puddings. (He always calledthem puds.) So I got the idea of spiking his pudding with Tabasco sauce. At first hed howl. But then hed realize it was a trick, and laugh. Oh, how hed la
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24. As a royal you were always taught to maintain a buffer zone between you and the rest of Creation. Even working a crowd you always kept a discreet distance between Yourself and Them. Distancewas right, distance was safe, distance was survival. Dis
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25. Hugh and Emilie were old friends of Pas. They lived in Norfolk, and we often went to visit themfor a week or two, during school holidays and summers. They had four sons with whom Willy andI were always thrown together, like pups into a bunch of p
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26. When there were no other boys around, no other common enemies, Willy and I would turn oneach other. It happened most often in the back seat while Pa drove us somewhere. A country house, say. Or a salmon stream. Once, in Scotland, on the way to th
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27. The first time I killed anything, Tiggy said: Well done, darling! She dipped her long, slender fingers into the rabbits body, under the flap of smashed fur,scooped out a dollop of blood and smeared it tenderly across my forehead, down my cheeks a
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28. Willy enjoyed stalking too, so that was his excuse for not coming to Klosters that year. Hepreferred to stay behind at Grannys estate in Norfolk, twenty thousand acres we both adored: Sandringham. Rather shoot partridges, he told Pa. A lie. Pa di
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29. We rolled down the long drive, past Grannys white stag ponies through the golf course, past thegreen where the Queen Mother once scored a hole in one, past the policeman in his little hut (crispsalute) and over a couple of speed bumps, then over
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