Prince Harry
Humiliation by this double setback
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It was his own decision to no longer be part of the Royal Family. The fact that the memory of his work in the British military is now more or less erased is likely to insult Prince Harry’s honor. And Prince William’s involvement in this is likely to be an additional thorn in his side.
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Prince Harry is not a top military academy graduate
As “Daily Mail” reports, Prince Harry was not included in the list and does not even appear in the “They also served” category, where celebrities such as James Blunt are listed. A slap in the face for the former royal, who has made no secret of how proud he is of his time in the army. Particularly bitter: His brother Prince William, 41, not only made it onto the list, he even wrote the foreword for the graduate book.
He made some explosive revelations in his book
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Prince Harry saw Taliban fighters as pawns
Harry’s critical statements about his time in the war, which he wrote in his autobiography “Spare”, may have led to his exclusion. In the explosive book he talks about the people who fell victim to him in the war. Harry writes that 25 Taliban members died during his six missions.
The 39-year-old goes even further in his description: In the heat of the moment, he didn’t perceive the people as “people, but as chess pieces.” He was trained in the army to see his targets as “something else, and they trained me well,” Harry said. “So my number is 25. It’s not a number that makes me happy. But I’m not ashamed of it either,” says “Spare”. And it is precisely these statements that are highly critical, explains Richard Kemp, a former colonel in the British army, in an interview with “The Sun”. “I completely understand why he wasn’t included. I probably would have included him, but it’s not a disappointment not to see him in it. I don’t think he did anything particularly notable during his time in the service, but he was certainly one of the important people who visited Sandhurst.” However, Kemp suspects there is another reason why Prince Harry does not appear on the list: “I suspect that the recent disharmony between him and the royal family has led them not to include him.”
Source used: The Sun, Daily Mail