Paris-based publishing house Fayard printed an extra 130,000 copies just two days after the book went on sale due to tight orders for French versions of all of Prince Harry’s memoirs, a company spokesman told Reuters on Thursday.
“This comes on top of the 210,000 copies initially printed,” the spokesperson said, adding that more could be printed depending on the order.
Fayard has yet to provide an exact sales figure.
New orders for “Le Suppleant,” the French translation of “Spare,” were currently 20% stronger than the first volume of former US President Barack Obama’s memoirs, a global blockbuster to be published in 2020, the spokesperson said.
In the book, Harry reveals that he begged his father not to marry his second wife, Camilla, who is now the Queen’s consort. The book also reveals that older brother and heir to the throne, William, overthrew her during a heated argument.
International publisher Penguin Random House said earlier this week that the memoir had the biggest first-day sales of any non-fiction book, with more than 1.4 million copies sold in the US, Canada and the UK. .
Britain’s King Charles and Prince William made their first public appearance since the book’s publication on Thursday. He made no public reference to the story.
A spokesman for Penguin Random House in Munich said the publisher had also started printing extra copies of the German-language version on the day of release.