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I was wrong about Prince Harry’s penis
What we know from Prince Harry’s revealing new memoir
I’ve spent ten years writing a book about circumcision, so it’s fair to say I know a lot about penises, but I was wrong about Prince Harry being intact (i.e. uncircumcised).
In The Final Cut: The truth about circumcision, I wrote “Princes William and Harry are most likely intact.” I based this on what royal commentators were saying, and dare I say, upon inspecting a grainy paparazzi Google image of Prince William urinating at a countryside fence in which it appeared he may be pulling back a foreskin. Be careful what you search for.
Well now I have a better source for the second edition — Prince Harry has revealed in his new memoir Spare that he was in fact circumcised as a baby: “There were countless stories in books, and papers (even The New York Times) about Willy and me not being circumcised… Mummy had forbidden it, they all said, and while it’s absolutely true that the chance of getting penile frostbite is much greater if you’re not circumcised, all the stories were false. I was snipped as a baby.”
He mentions frostbite because, as he also shares in his memoir, his ears and cheeks became frostbitten during an expedition to the North Pole in 2011, and “upon arriving home I’d been horrified to discover that my…
