I'm aware there are bigger issues in #SparebyPrinceHarry, but it's jarring to find Harry (or his ghostwriter) claim that Henry VI was his "great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather". Henry VI's only child was killed. In a little thing called the Wars of the Roses. 
There's a whole thing in Spare about how Harry doesn't like history, and he resents his Ludgrove teacher, 'Mr Hughes-Games' for expecting him to have any particular knowledge of royal history. Fair enough. But some basic respect for factchecking would be nice.
Harry's stated disinterest in History and advertised lack of knowledge of Latin or Shakespeare also makes it all rather noticeable that elsewhere it's the ghostwriter inserting specific & pertinent history facts (e.g. this parallel with Henry IV) or translating a Latin motto.
(On the subject of Harry's teachers, given that they presumably signed NDAs at the time & have largely protected the privacy of their most famous and vulnerable student, I do wonder how specific individuals feel about being identified by name as a series of nutters & monsters.)
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