The image is almost cinematic: stacks of pale-grey hardbacks hitting bookstore shelves, queues outside at midnight, headlines screaming “fastest-selling memoir in history” — while, thousands of miles away, a Montecito driveway stays dark, and a London palace goes even quieter than usual.
When Prince Harry’s memoir Spare dropped in January 2023, it exploded. Within 24 hours it had sold 1.43 million copies across the U.K., U.S. and Canada, officially becoming the fastest-selling non-fiction book of all time. Within a week, global sales passed 3.
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