Prince Harry listed as a woman in bizarre error on Amazon website

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Svar Nanan-Sen

By Svar Nanan-Sen


Published: 04/08/2025

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The Duke of Sussex released his autobiography in January 2023

Prince Harry has been listed as a woman in a bizarre error on the Amazon website.

The Duke of Sussex's autobiography, which was titled Spare, appears in Amazon's Best Sellers in Women's Biographies.


Spare is ranked at number 19 on the list with 116,500 written reviews.

The Duke of Sussex is not the only male whose autobiography features on the list, as former footballer Duncan Ferguson's book is ranked at number 21.

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Prince Harry has been listed as a woman in a bizarre error on the Amazon website.

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Prince Harry is ahead of Meghan Markle's friend Gwyneth Paltrow on the list, with Gwyneth: The Biography in 20th position.

In 2024, Prince Harry's memoir Spare was the most traded-in biography for the second consecutive year, according to second-hand book website We Buy Books.

The website revealed it purchased 567 copies of the Duke of Sussex's autobiography in 2024.

In December, a spokesman for We Buy Books confirmed: "For the second year running, Prince Harry's Spare is the most traded in biography of 2024. This year, we purchased a total of 567 copies."

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The Duke of Sussex's autobiography, which was titled Spare, appears in Amazon's Best Sellers in Women's Biographies.

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It followed the 2023 trend when 459 customers traded in their hardback copies.

The memoir's trade-in rates stand in stark contrast to its record-breaking initial success.

Upon its January 2023 release, Spare achieved the largest first-day sales total for any non-fiction book ever published by Penguin Random House.

The book sold more than 1.4 million copies across the US, Canada and Britain on its first day alone.

It surpassed Barack Obama's 2020 autobiography, "A Promised Land," to become the fastest-selling non-fiction book of all time.

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The memoir sold 467,183 print copies in its first week of release. Including all formats, UK sales reached 750,000 copies during the opening week.

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The memoir's success was partly driven by major retailers, including Waterstones, WHSmith and Amazon, offering it at half price.

In the UK market, "Spare" achieved remarkable initial sales figures.

The memoir sold 467,183 print copies in its first week of release. Including all formats, UK sales reached 750,000 copies during the opening week.

This performance established "Spare" as the fastest-selling non-fiction book in the UK since Nielsen BookData began recording official printed book sales in 1998.

The memoir significantly outperformed previous records, including Kay Allinson's "Pinch of Nom" cookbook, which sold 210,506 copies in its first three days in 2019.