Prince Harry reveals how he sent fighter jet after Charles' car

2023-01-12

‘I told the Typhoon: New target’: Prince Harry reveals how he sent fighter jet after father Charles’ car while training for Afghanistan, ‘but ultimately spared him’

Duke of Sussex tells of how hard he worked to prepare himself for life in military
This included ‘steering jets over marshy flats at ungodly speeds’ in Norfolk
He detailed one bizarre practice drill where he targeted his father’s grey Audi

Prince Harry sent a fighter jet after his father’s car in Norfolk while training for combat in the military, his controversial memoir reveals.

The Duke of Sussex writes in Spare of how hard he worked to prepare himself for his tours of Afghanistan, including ‘steering jets over marshy flats at ungodly speeds’ near the Sandringham residence.

In one bizarre tale, he tells how he used a Typhoon to target King Charles and his grey Audi before ‘ultimately sparing him’ at the last minute.

Harry details how he pretended to blow up targets in a practice drill while holed up in a hotel room on the outskirts of King’s Lynn.

Prince Harry (pictured in Afghanistan in 2008) sent a fighter jet after his father’s car in Norfolk while training for combat in the military, his controversial memoir reveals

The Prince claimed his father ‘never dropped in’ while he was there, even though the Sandringham estate was only a few miles away.

Harry explained how Charles – a helicopter pilot himself – was enthusiastic about his son’s work, but insisted locals in the village of Wolferton were less keen on witnessing a ten-thousand-kilo jet roaring just over their tiled roofs.

He writes: ‘RAF Marham had received dozens of complaints. Sandringham was supposed to be a no-fly zone. All complainants were told: Such is war.

‘I loved seeing Pa, loved feeling his pride, and I felt buoyed by his praise, but I had to get back to work. I was mid-control, couldn’t tell the Typhoon to please hold on a moment. Yes, yes, darling boy, back to work. He drove off.

‘As he went down the track I told the Typhoon: New target. Gray Audi. Headed southeast from my position down track. Towards a big silver barn oriented east-west. The Typhoon tracked Pa, did a low pass straight over him, almost shattering the windows of his Audi. But ultimately spared him. On my orders. It went on to blow a silver barn to smithereens.’

It is one of a number of revelations about his military career that the book lifts the lid on, including his claim that he killed 25 Taliban fighters during his second tour of duty in Afghanistan.

The Duke, who was known as ‘Captain Wales’ in the military, wrote that he did not think of those killed ‘as people’ but instead ‘chess pieces’ he had taken off the board.

This is the first time that Harry, 38, has specified the number of insurgents he personally killed during his time in Afghanistan, where he went in both 2007-8 and 2012 and flew an Apache attack helicopter during his second tour.

In Spare, the Prince said that he flew on six missions that resulted in the ‘taking of human lives’.

While many soldiers do not know how many enemies they have killed in combat, the Duke wrote that ‘in the era of Apaches and laptops’ he was able to say ‘with exactness’ the number of insurgents he killed.

Harry wrote that ‘you can’t kill people if you see them as people’ and said he instead saw them as ‘chess pieces removed from the board’… ‘bad guys eliminated’.

n one bizarre tale, he tells how he used a Typhoon to target King Charles and his grey Audi before ‘ultimately sparing him’ at the last minute

The prince was first deployed to Helmand province as a forward air controller in 2007, but his first tour of duty was cut short when an Australian magazine broke a media embargo by mistake.

However, he returned in 2012 with the Ministry of Defence publicising his second deployment on the understanding that the media would allow him to get on with the job at hand.

After he learnt to fly Apache helicopters, Harry was deployed to Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan in 2012 where he stayed for 20 weeks.

During his 2012 tour, Harry helped provide helicopter support to the International Security Assistance Force and Afghan forces operating throughout Helmand province.

Based out of Camp Bastion, 662 Squadron Army Air Corps, to which he belonged, flew more than a hundred deliberate missions over 2,500 flying hours, providing surveillance, deterrence and, when required, close combat attack capabilities as well as escort duties for other aircraft.

Captain Wales qualified as a co-pilot gunner in February 2012.

He was posted to 3 Regiment Army Air Corps, part of 16 Air Assault Brigade, to gain further flying experience and to operate the Apache on a number of exercises before deploying to Afghanistan in September 2012.

Harry trained to fly in the front seat as the mission or aircraft commander but the majority of the time operated the Apache’s sights, sensors and weapons systems.

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