Pulitzer Prize winner J.R. Moehringer helped Prince Harry author his book Spare.
On Wednesday night,the writer shared a quote from Mary Karr,author ofThe Art of Memoir,which said:“The line between memory and fact is blurry,between interpretation and fact. There are inadvertent mistakes of those kinds out the wazoo.”
Moehringer tweeted the duke’s words:“Whatever the cause,my memory is my memory,it does what it does ... and there’s just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts.”
The New York-born author,who was reportedly paid $US1 million ($1.45 million) to writeSpare,was coming to the defence of several highlighted inaccuracies,including that the duke was given an Xbox computer game console before they were manufactured and that he is a descendant of King Henry VI.
In his memoir,the duke writes of his “great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather” King Henry VI,who founded Eton College and died in 1471,despite the fact that the king’s direct lineage ended after his son died childless at the Battle of Tewkesbury.
More errors have emerged since the publication of the book earlier this week,such as the duke’s recollection of where he was when he was told that the Queen Mother,his great-grandmother,had died.