The point of the simulation was to determine whether the royal had what it took to survive a real-life capture in a war zone. “He’s hooded, dragged to an underground bunker, beaten, frozen, starved, stripped, forced into excruciating stress positions by captors wearing black balaclavas,” according to Moehringer. AFP via Getty ImagesĪt the end of a grueling military exercise, Harry was “captured by pretend terrorists,” according to Moehringer. It was the summer of 2022, and the novelist and Harry had “come to a difficult passage” concerning the prince’s time in the British Army that they kept disagreeing on two years into their working relationship. “Then, as Harry started going back at me, as his cheeks flushed and his eyes narrowed, a more pressing thought occurred: ‘Whoa, it could all end right here.'” Prince Harry got into a a heated exchange with his “Spare” ghostwriter. I’m shouting at Prince Harry,'” he shared. “Some part of me was still able to step outside the situation and think, ‘This is so weird. Things became so strained between the two that Moehringer, 58, thought he might be fired from the project. “My head was pounding, my jaw was clenched and I was starting to raise my voice.” Moehringer wrote in the New Yorker Monday, recalling one particularly tense Zoom call that took place at 2 a.m.

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