The Duke of Sussex has now turned against his "other family, the military" after revealing he killed 25 people in Afghanistan, a retired British Army colonel has said. Colonel Tim Collins, known for a pre-battle speech he made in Iraq, said Harry's conduct is "not how we behave in the Army".
It comes as the duke faces an intense backlash after writing about his time in Afghanistan in his controversial memoir, Spare. Harry wrote that flying six missions during his second tour of duty on the front line in 2012 to 2013 resulted in "the taking of human lives", of which he was neither proud nor ashamed.
The Telegraph, which obtained a Spanish language copy of the memoir from a bookshop in Spain, reports that Harry said he did not think of those he killed as "people", but instead as "chess pieces" that had been taken off the board. "So, my number is 25. It's not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but nor does it embarrass me," he wrote.
