Prince Harry says he killed 25 people on Army tours in Afghanistan

2023-01-05

Prince Harry has revealed that he killed 25 people while serving as an Apache helicopter pilot in Afghanistan, detailing his time there in his upcoming memoir.

Just a month after the release of Harry and his wife Meghan Markle's explosive Netflix docuseries, Harry & Meghan, the nation is gearing up for more revelations in the Duke of Sussex's upcoming autobiography, Spare.

While the book is set for a January 10 release, copies have leaked early, with sections of Harry's writing being published by numerous outlets.

The extracts include details such as Harry dubbing his brother, Prince William, his "arch-nemesis", as well an account of an alleged physical confrontation between the brothers,

Harry also claims William and Kate Middleton told him to wear the infamous 2005 Nazi costume.

In his autobiography, Harry said he did not think of those he killed in Afghanistan as “people” but instead as “chess pieces” that had been taken off the board.

The Telegraph, which obtained a Spanish language copy of the memoir from a bookshop in Spain, report that Harry says flying six missions during his second tour of duty on the front line resulted in “the taking of human lives," which he is neither proud nor ashamed of.

Describing watching a video of each “kill” when he returned to base, he wrote of Taliban fighters as “baddies” who were being eliminated before they could kill “goodies”.

“So, my number is 25. It’s not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but nor does it embarrass me,” he wrote.

Harry first went to war in 2007 on a 10-week tour of duty fighting the Taliban in dangerous Helmand Province, operating as a battlefield air controller behind enemy lines.

The secret mission – which ended early after it was leaked on the internet – gave him the opportunity to be treated as a real soldier rather than a prince.

He returned, dubbed the “Warrior Prince”, “Harry the Brave”, and “One of Our Boys” by the press for fighting for his country.

With a burning desire to return to Afghanistan, Harry, who was recently branded a "brat" on Good Morning Britain, retrained and qualified as an Apache helicopter pilot after rigorous training in Britain and America.

In September 2012, he made it back to Afghanistan for a second time.

The 20-week stint gave him the chance to use his Apache flying skills and head out on operations in his role as a co-pilot gunner.

But he was criticised on his return to the UK for frank comments that he took the enemy “out of the game”, and soldiers “take a life to save a life”.

As a gunner in Apache attack helicopters, the royal, who was then 28, flew on scores of missions with his fingers on the triggers of deadly rockets, missiles and a 30mm cannon.

“Take a life to save a life,” he shrugged and said during an interview in 2013. “That’s what we revolve around, I suppose.

“If there’s people trying to do bad stuff to our guys, then we’ll take them out of the game, I suppose.”

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