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Harry hits back at reaction to book

A staff member arranges a display for Spare at Daunt Books on Marylebone High Street in London on Tuesday. The publisher said Prince Harry’s memoir was the fastest selling non-fiction book in UK history. (Photo: AFP)

LONDON: Prince Harry has hit back at “hurtful” responses to his record-selling memoir, saying he was particularly upset by the “lie” he had boasted that he had killed 25 people in Afghanistan when serving as a military helicopter pilot.

In his book Spare, King Charles’s younger son recounts his two tours of Afghanistan, first as a forward air controller in 2007-08 and again in 2012, when he was a co-pilot gunner in Apache attack helicopters, and the number of people he had killed.

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