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The prince against the press

The Slow Newscast

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Harry Ammegan's Spare

A British inquest concludes that the crash was caused by Henri Paul, who'd been drinking. In his memoir, Spare, he recounts how years later he was driven through the straight 150-meter long tunnel at the same speed as his mother's car. He struggles to believe that the accident was mainly the fault of the driver. And as paparazzi had chased and blinded him, why were those papars not more roundly blamed? Why were they not in jail? Who sent them? And why were theynot in jail? The pages of Spare are filled with this visceral hatred but that's not the story we read in the papers when the book was published. There are clues

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