Blood-soaked copies of Prince Harry book go on sale after he …
Copies of Prince Harry's Spare splashed with the blood of Afghan people are to go on sale as part of a brazen art display. An artist covered 25 copies of the royal's memoir in blood in a poignant stunt after the Prince revealed he'd killed 25 people while serving in Helmand. The shocking exhibit has gone up this weekend at a shop in Windsor, but each copy comes with a five-figure price tag.
Andrei Molodkin, a Russian artist known for his bold anti-war statements, has already projected a blood-soaked sculpture of Harry onto St Paul's Cathedral after he claimed to have killed 25 Taliban members in the tell-all memoir released in January.
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Blood-stained copies of Spare will go on sale next month following this weekend's display (Getty Images)
The artist said some of the leftover blood, donated by Afghan people, had been used for this latest display, copies from which will go on sale in London next month for £10,000 (GBP8,000) each. Prince Harry faced huge backlash after making the revelation, which infuriated the Taliban and drew criticism from Iran and various Army veterans. The figure, Harry wrote, was not one that "gave me any satisfaction", but added that "neither was it a number that made me feel ashamed".
Andrei Molodkin's sculpture filled with the blood of Afghans is projected onto St Paul's Cathedral (Lucy North/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock)
He also admitted to seeing his targets as "chess pieces" rather than people.
"While in the heat and fog of combat, I didn't think of those 25 as people," the royal controversially wrote. "You can't kill people if you think of them as people. You can't really harm people if you think of them as people.
"They were chess pieces removed from the board, Bads taken away before they could kill Goods."
Anti-war artist Andrei Molodkin (REX/Shutterstock)
Mr Molodkin, who has named the display "Blood Money", said: "Prince Harry boasts of killing Taliban like they're baddies in a video game, 'otherising' human life then cashing in on the sorry tale to sell books about his drug binging, sexual exploits and killing conquests." The bold stunt comes as another bombshell book on the royals is set to go on sale next week, making several explosive revelations about Prince Harry and his fractured relationship with his family. Robert Jobson's 'Our King' hits the shelves on April 13, although several details have been released ahead of publication, including that Harry's frequent outbursts criticising the royal family "wearied" the late-Queen.
The blood-covered books will go on sale through a/political, an activist movement, in Kennington, London, on May 2.