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Cathy Owen

Harry 'painted a target on his back' with comments about killing 25 Taliban, ex-Army colonel says

Prince Harry has been accused of "betraying" his Army colleagues amid criticism for his revelations of how many people he killed during his tours of Afghanistan. The 38-year-old claimed in his forthcoming memoir Spare that he killed 25 Taliban fighters while working as a helicopter pilot.

Former British Army Colonel Richard Kemp has said the Duke of Sussex's decision to spill details in the autobiography is a "betrayal of the people he fought alongside".

Prince Harry says in the book that he saw the people he killed as "chess pieces" taken off the board, he said. The Telegraph, which obtained a Spanish language copy of the memoir from a bookshop in Spain, reported Harry said flying six missions during his second tour of duty on the front line resulted in "the taking of human lives" of which he was neither proud nor ashamed.

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