“My number is 25. It’s not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but nor does it embarrass me,” Harry reportedly writes. In one other part, he’s quoted as describing Taliban insurgents as “chess pieces” taken off the board, fairly than individuals.
CNN has not seen a replica of the guide however has requested an advance copy of the guide from the writer Penguin Random House. A variety of UK media shops obtained Spanish-language copies on Thursday, and quoted translated excerpts.
The prince’s feedback prompted a pointy backlash from members of the navy group, with main figures saying they might jeopardize his security and provides the British Army a foul repute.
The UK’s former nationwide safety adviser Kim Darroch, who was the British Ambassador to the United States from 2016 to 2019, advised Sky News he would have suggested Harry towards making the statements.
And Colonel Richard Kemp, a retired British military officer, advised the identical community they “tarnished” his repute and “unjustly” painted the British Army in a damaging gentle.
“His suggestion that he killed 25 people will have re-incited those people who wish him harm,” Kemp stated.
“Let’s hope they don’t succeed and I’m sure he’s got pretty good security, but that’s one problem.
“The different downside I discovered together with his feedback was that he characterised the British Army mainly as having skilled him and different troopers to see his enemy as lower than human, simply as chess items on a board to be swiped off, which isn’t the case. It’s the other of the case,” he added.
The ruling Taliban, which returned to power in 2021 after two decades and is again pursuing a brutal crackdown against women’s rights, also responded angrily to Harry’s comments.
“Mr. Harry! The ones you killed weren’t chess items, they have been people; they’d households who have been ready for his or her return,” said Anas Haqqani, who works as an acting adviser to the minister of interior and is the son of the founder of the Haqqani network, Jalaluddin Haqqani.
“Among the killers of Afghans, not many have your decency to disclose their conscience and confess to their battle crimes,” he added.
Prince Harry served in the British Army for 10 years. He completed two tours of Afghanistan, one spanning 2007 to 2008 and the other from 2012 to 2013.
He achieved the rank of captain in 2011 and qualified as an Apache Aircraft commander. Captain Harry Wales, as he was known in the Army, retired from the service in 2015.
During his time serving with the British Army in Afghanistan, Harry said, he used to watch back footage of each “kill” from the nose-mounted camera on his Apache helicopter after returning to base, the Telegraph reported.
Former Royal Marine Ben McBean, whom Harry served alongside in Afghanistan, also wrote on Twitter on Thursday: “Love you #PrinceHarry however that you must shut up! Makes you surprise the individuals he is hanging round with. If it was good individuals anyone by now would have advised him to cease.”
It is unclear whether McBean was referring specifically to Harry’s comments on his time in the military, or more generally to a slew of other revelations in Harry’s memoir that have sparked turmoil for Britain’s royal family.
Early reporting about the book’s contents has dominated front pages in the UK and threaten another headache for Harry’s father, King Charles III, and his brother, Prince William.
Perhaps essentially the most dramatic revelation to emerge was the declare that William bodily attacked Harry throughout an altercation in 2019, first reported by The Guardian.
