Prince Harry says he was born to be William's organ donor

Britain's Prince Harry, husband to Meghan Markle, released a memoir titled Spare on Tuesday and in it he claims he was born to be an organ donor for his older brother and heir to the British throne, Prince William.

The New York Post excerpts portions from the memoir that centers around the prince's supposed organ donor status, such as when Prince Harry said, "Two years older than me, Willy was the Heir, whereas I was the Spare" and "I was the shadow, the support, the Plan B. I was brought into the world in case something happened to Willy."

38-year-old Harry speculated that he could give a "Kidney, perhaps. Blood transfusion. Speck of bone marrow."

Meghan Markle's husband said he was in the royal family to give "if necessary, a spare part" to 40-year-old brother, Prince William, and that he had only ever been a "distraction" and "diversion" to the older heir.

Sometime actress and social justice activist Meghan Markle married Prince Harry and thus joined the British royal family in 2018. In 2020, Harry and Meghan stepped away from the royal family. In 2021, Meghan Markle said during an interview with Oprah that she constantly ran into bullying and racism from the royal family.

Prince Harry expressed in a 2019 Vogue interview how Markle was helping him learn about racism and his "unconscious bias."

Prince Harry wrote in the book about being the "spare" that "I took no offense, I felt nothing about it, any of it" because he has acknowledged his privilege, as the Post reports.

In his memoir, Prince Harry said on his 20th birthday his father told him that when he was born he told his mother, the late Princess Diana, "Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an Heir and a Spare — my work is done."

"Minutes after delivering this bit of high comedy, Pa was said to have gone off to meet with his girlfriend," Prince Harry continued. Prince Harry wrote how, growing up, his father, King Charles III, could not share a plane with Prince William for fear of disrupting the line of succession if something were to happen. "But no one gave a damn whom I traveled with; the Spare could always be spared," the California-based prince wrote.

Later, after his brother and wife Catherine, the Princess of Wales, had two children, Prince Harry was "no longer even the Spare of the Spare."

According to the memoir, Prince William did knock Prince Harry down to the ground, getting the better of him, in a fight that Prince Harry said was brought upon by his brother being "full Heir mode, and couldn’t fathom why I wasn’t dutifully playing the role of the Spare."

According to the BBC, "Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, is part confession, part rant and part love letter. In places it feels like the longest angry drunk text ever sent."