Filius Regi

Lela Chehade

• 10 september 2025
• 9782488633017

Samenvatting:

FILIUS REGI: Son of a King — A Tragedy in Spare Parts

A sharp, deeply researched cultural autopsy of a modern prince—and the public story machine that made and unmade him.

In FILIUS REGI, Lela Chehade reconstructs Prince Harry’s public arc as a classical tragedy—from the boy who walked behind his mother’s coffin to the man who turned memory into brand. Blending history, media critique, and political analysis, the book tracks how grief, celebrity, and institutional power combined to create a myth… and why it collapsed.

What this book does

• Dissects the “spare” myth against the long history of royal seconds, from the House of Windsor to European precedents.
• Reads Spare as text—language, structure, and contradictions—alongside interviews, documentaries, and public statements.
• Maps a five‑part tragic arc: Hamartia, Peripeteia, Anagnorisis, Nemesis, and Catharsis.
• Interrogates media and PR—how optics, awards, and streaming deals reframed personal narrative as public cause.

Who it’s for

• Readers of biography and royal history who want rigor, not reverence.
• Media, politics, and sociology watchers interested in narrative power and public persuasion.
• Anyone curious how grief, celebrity, and institutions collide in the 21st century.

Inside the book

• Preamble — scope, method, and limits
• Spare — the “spare” before Harry
• House of Spare — from Saxe‑Coburg and Gotha to Windsor
• Harry: The Making of a Superstar — scandals, service, and spin
• Hubris by Spare — the Oprah pivot, memory vs. fact
• Hamartia — error and self‑mythologizing
• Peripeteia — reversal in the post‑Elizabeth era
• Anagnorisis — recognition and retreat
• Nemesis — consequences in public and private
• Catharsis — what remains after the spectacle
• Bibliography

Tone & approach: evidence‑driven, unsentimental, and readable—placing one famous life in the wider machinery of monarchy, media, and modern politics.

About the author: Lela Chehade is a writer and publisher whose work bridges cultural criticism, political analysis, and narrative craft. FILIUS REGI is her definitive study of a prince made for the camera—and what the camera can never quite hold.