Veterans have hit out at Prince Harry after he claimed to have killed 25 people while on military service.
The Duke of Sussex has faced 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.
