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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Amy Mackelden

Prince Harry References the "Lifelong Friends" He "Lost" After Serving in Afghanistan, as Meghan Markle Celebrates Her Husband's Military Service

Prince Harry with a group of Gurkha soldiers in Helmand province, Southern Afghanistan on January 2, 2008.

Prince Harry is sharing his own experience having served in Afghanistan with the British Army. The Duke of Sussex spoke out after Donald Trump downplayed the involvement of NATO allies in the war in Afghanistan following 9/11. Meanwhile, Meghan Markle shared several Instagram photos related to her husband's military service.

Trump previously suggested that the U.S. didn't necessarily need their NATO allies, telling Fox News on Jan. 22 (via CNN), "We've never needed them. We have never really asked anything of them. You know, they'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan, or this or that. And they did—they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines."

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