Ronald Reagan's daughter says Prince Harry should have 'been quiet'

Ronald Reagan’s daughter says Prince Harry should have ‘been quiet’ and seen fights with Wills and Charles from their perspective: Predicts he’ll regret writing tell-all memoir Spare, as she did with her own autobiography

• Patti Davis, 70, wrote her own explosive memoir The Way I See It in 1992
• She is now warning Prince Harry ahead of the release of his own memoir Spare 
• Davis advised the Prince to ‘be quiet’ and warned he’ll regret his memoir 
• ‘Years ago, someone asked me what I would say to my younger self if I could. Without hesitating I answered: ‘That’s easy. I’d have said: “Be quiet,”‘ she said 
• She said her own justification for her book was similar to Harry’s and she came to regret writing and had to apologize to her father 
• She also urged Harry to take William and Charles’ perspective into account

Ronald Reagan’s daughter said Prince Harry should have ‘been quiet’ and said he’ll regret writing his tell-all memoir Spare as she did with her own. 

Patti Davis, 70, wrote her own explosive memoir The Way I See It in 1992 and has since come to regret exposing the inner workings of her family – much like the Duke of Sussex is gearing up to do on January 10. 

As new bombshells drop about the book, including a claim that the two Princes got into a physical altercation, Davis is worried for Prince Harry and is now offering her advice.  

‘Years ago, someone asked me what I would say to my younger self if I could. Without hesitating I answered: ‘That’s easy. I’d have said: “Be quiet,”‘ she wrote in a New York Times op-ed. 

Patti Davis, 70, wrote her own explosive memoir The Way I See It in 1992. She is now warning Prince Harry ahead of the release of his own memoir Spare

Davis advised the Prince to ‘be quiet’ and warned he’ll regret his memoir. ‘Years ago, someone asked me what I would say to my younger self if I could. Without hesitating I answered: ‘That’s easy. I’d have said: “Be quiet,”‘ she said

‘Not forever. But until I could stand back and look at things through a wider lens. Until I understood that words have consequences, and they last a really long time.’ 

It seems Prince Harry himself might be getting cold feet about his bombshell memoir, as it was revealed he reportedly wanted to pull Spare from shelves after the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. 

But in her warning to the prince, Davis has opened up on the negative consequences of her own memoir. 

‘My justification in writing a book I now wish I hadn’t written (and please, don’t go buy it; I’ve written many other books since) was very similar to what I understand to be Harry’s reasoning. I wanted to tell the truth, I wanted to set the record straight,’ she wrote in the op-ed. 

‘Naïvely, I thought if I put my own feelings and my own truth out there for the world to read, my family might also come to understand me better,’ she continued. ‘Of course, people generally don’t respond well to being embarrassed and exposed in public.’ 

She urges Harry to take Prince William and King Charles’ perspective into account. 

In regard to the physical fight allegations between the brothers, she touts that although Harry prided himself on not hitting his brother back in the moment, that he did so anyways ‘by writing about the fight.’ 

She also claimed that Harry ‘expanded’ the battlefield between him, his brother, and his father and the only way to heal such a wound is to ‘be quiet.’ 

She said her own justification for her book was similar to Harry’s and she came to regret writing and had to apologize to her father (pictured in 1984)

She also urged Harry to take William and Charles’ perspective into account. She also claimed that Harry ‘expanded’ the battlefield between him, his brother, and his father and the only way to heal such a wound is to ‘be quiet’ 

‘Harry has called William not only his “beloved brother” but his “arch nemesis.” He chose words that cut deep, that leave a scar; perhaps if he had taken time to be quiet, to reflect on the enduring power of his words, he’d have chosen differently.’ 

She herself apologized to her own father years after her book was published while her dad was in the throughs of his Alzheimer’s disease. Now looking back, she said she would have benefited from being silent herself, as ‘silence gives you room, it gives you distance.’ 

‘Harry may look back as I did and wish he could un-speak what he has said,’ she speculated. 

Davis observed that Harry – and by extension, his wife Meghan – have operated in the perspective that silence isn’t an option, but she is now arguing through her own experience, ‘that it is.’ 

Prince Harry’s explosive memoir Spare (pictured) will make its debut on January 10

Spare – which is ghostwritten by JR Moehringer – has been lauded as ‘well written… heartfelt and convincing’ and is generally getting more positive feedback than the ‘repetitive and one-dimensional’ Netflix docuseries Harry & Megan.

The memoir, which opens with an account of the 1997 funeral of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, was said to give ‘historic context’ for the Duke’s feelings about his family.

Prince Harry feels he ‘grew up in a closed and dysfunctional institution’ and he holds it – at least in part – responsible for his mother’s death, the source close to the publisher reportedly said.

Despite not being released yet, Spare has already caused controversy after PR experts warned Harry’s ‘truth-bombs’, such as revealing he took cocaine and killed 25 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, could have dire consequences for Meghan’s political hopes.

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