Words Worth Noting - July 19, 2023

“The Duke of Sussex’s ghostwriter has defended Spare from claims of inaccuracies and historical errors... J.R. Moehringer... shared a quote from Mary Karr, author of The 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.’... 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.”

National Post January 13, 2023