Prince Harry has accused some journalists of spreading a "dangerous lie" that he boasted about killing 25 Taliban fighters. The Duke of Sussex told a US interviewer that the British press had "stripped away" the context in its coverage of his new memoir Spare.
"Without a doubt, the most dangerous lie that they have told is that I somehow boasted about the number of people I killed in Afghanistan," he told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show. "If I heard anyone boasting about that kind of thing, I would be angry. But it's a lie. It's really troubling and very disturbing that they can get away with it."
Journalists including Talk TV's Piers Morgan have repeatedly criticised Harry for "boasting" about the number of Taliban soldiers he killed while serving in Afghanistan. But others have said that this is a misleading characterisation.
