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Prince Harry as a baby with his mother Diana: He was born Henry Charles Albert David Mountbatten-Windsor on September 15, 1984, in London's St. Mary's Hospital.
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Like the rest of the royal family, Harry was in the public eye from an early age.
This picture shows the four-year-old with his older brother William and his parents Charles and Diana.
The four Windsors went for a bike ride on Tresco, one of Cornwall's Isles of Scilly, in June 1989.
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September 1989: Prince Harry (right) is welcomed to Wetherby School in Notting Hill on his first day of school.
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Harry left Buckingham Palace in a carriage with his mother and great-grandmother Queen Mum in June 1992: After his parents separated in the early 1990s, public interest in the two young princes, Harry and William, increased again.
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Like his older brother, Harry often accompanied his parents on trips.
In the summer of 1993, a few weeks before his ninth birthday, he and his mother visited British soldiers at the military training area in Bergen, Lower Saxony.
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May 7, 1995: Harry attends a big peace festival in London's Hyde Park with his brother and parents.
The occasion is the end of the Second World War 50 years earlier.
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Holidays in Saint-Tropez: Twelve-year-old Harry steers a jet ski on the Mediterranean, under the supervision of his mother.
The picture was taken in mid-July 1997 - a few weeks before Diana died in a car accident in Paris.
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Diana's tragic death touches the public: countless flowers are laid at Kensington Palace.
One day before the funeral, Prince Charles and his sons get an idea of the enormous sympathy.
'He was there for us.
He was the one of two parents who was still around,” says Harry 20 years later in a TV documentary.
“And he did his best to make sure we were protected and cared for.
But he went through the same grieving process.”
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Prince Harry, Queen Elizabeth II: Harry initially reacted in disbelief to the news of his death.
"There wasn't an immediate outburst of grief," he later recalled in a TV documentary.
"I don't think anyone of that age and situation can really understand what happened and what it means."
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William and Harry were 15 and 12 years old when they publicly mourned their late mother on September 6, 1997.
The fact that the two young princes finally walk behind the coffin is presented in the documentary as a family decision.
Both were aware of their royal duty.
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Harry in the summer of 1999: together with his father, he watches his older brother take a driving lesson.
This obviously gives cause for merriment.
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Harry as a teenager: This picture from 2000 shows him as a 15-year-old - on a skiing holiday with Charles and William.
Traditionally, the family travels to Klosters in Switzerland to go skiing.
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Harry in his room at Eton College: The prince has grown into a young man who will graduate from school in June 2003 with an A level (equivalent to the Abitur).
His grades at the elite boarding school are said not to have been the best.
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Because of various escapades - binge drinking and womanizing - Harry sticks to the image of the "party prince" during this time.
His most well-known misstep occurred in January 2005: the then 20-year-old appeared at a costume party with a swastika armband and a disguise intended to represent a uniform of Rommel's Afrika Korps.
"Harry the Nazi" was the headline in the tabloid "The Sun".
In his book “Spare”, which will be officially released on Tuesday, Harry writes according to “Page Six” that his brother knew about the costume in advance and even encouraged him.
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After that, Harry increasingly tries to make serious appearances: In May 2005 he begins his two-year officer training course at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
In total, the prince will serve the army for ten years.
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Working for children in Africa: In April 2006, together with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, Harry set up a charitable foundation that takes care of AIDS orphans.
The aid organization bears the name »Sentebale« (»Don't forget me«), in memory of his mother.
Diana, too, had always campaigned for orphans in poor countries.
Harry spent two months in Lesotho back in 2004, working in an orphanage there.
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Harry with the rappers Kanye West (left) and P. Diddy: On July 1, 2007, it would have been Diana's 46th birthday, the prince organized a memorial concert with his brother William at Wembley Stadium.
Elton John opens and closes the concert, in between many other stars perform - from Diana's favorite band Duran Duran to old rockers like Bryan Ferry, Rod Stewart and Status Quo to younger artists like Will Young and Nelly Furtado.
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Chelsy Davy from Zimbabwe is often seen at Harry's side during this period.
She is said to have been his first great love.
From 2004 to 2010 the two had an on-off relationship.
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Military career: From December 2007 to February 2008, Harry is stationed in southern Afghanistan.
He takes part in front-line operations against the Taliban.
This picture shows him in July 2010 in a Fuchs tank in Suffolk, east England.
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Harry, who is listed in the armed forces as "Captain Wales", is doing an 18-month training course to become a helicopter pilot.
The British Ministry of Defense announced in February 2012 that the prince passed the pilot's test for Apache attack helicopters as the best co-pilot and gunner of his year.
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The prince and the super sprinter: Before the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Harry meets world record holder Usain Bolt in Jamaica.
In the subsequent race, the track and field athlete lets the Royal win.
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Comeback of the »party prince«: A vacation in Las Vegas in August 2012 provided photographers with sparkling pictures for days.
Harry watches bikini beauties.
Harry is making fun of a police officer.
Harry is dancing in the hotel pool.
Then dive...
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... nude photos that are said to have been taken during a game of strip billiards.
The tabloid "The Sun" prints the spicy pictures.
They show Harry partying in a Las Vegas hotel room.
The prince wears nothing but a necklace and a watch.
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In September 2012, Harry's second mission begins in Afghanistan.
He is stationed in Helmand, southern Afghanistan, for a total of four months as co-pilot of an Apache attack helicopter.
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He later reports on his mission: "If there are people who want something bad for our boys, then we take them out of the game." Taking a life to save one - "that's what it was for us".
When asked whether he had also killed Taliban fighters as a gunner on a combat helicopter, he replies: "Yes, like many others." Anyone who tried to harm his comrades was "eliminated".
In his book, Harry now writes that he killed 25 people in combat.
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Charity campaign for war invalids ("Walking with the Wounded"): On December 1, 2013, Harry sets off on a 260-kilometer march through Antarctica with three teams from Great Britain, the USA and a Canadian-Australian team.
The expedition is affected by unfavorable weather from the start.
During the tour, temperatures sometimes drop to minus 35 degrees Celsius.
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The teams reach the South Pole on December 13, 2013.
All participants - with the exception of Harry - are soldiers who were badly wounded in the war.
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Harry's girlfriends are always an issue: it bothers him that his relationship status is being talked about in public – he makes no secret of it.
The prince complains that he has difficulty finding a partner because the press immediately pounces on any woman.
Among other things, his relationship with British actress Cressida Bonas, which lasted from 2012 to 2014, is said to have failed.
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Prince Harry in the summer of 2014: The Royal is increasingly dedicated to social tasks.
He initiates the »Invictus Games« – an international sports competition for war-disabled soldiers.
Harry captivates many Britons with his open nature and warmth – like his mother Diana once did.
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In the summer of 2015, after ten years, Harry is retiring from the British military.
Before that, he will serve another four weeks in the Australian army - and will then be given a public farewell in Sydney.
Some of his predominantly female fans have posters with them.
“Marry me!” it says.
Or »His Royal Hotness«.
One of the young women with a "Marry me" sign and a crown on her head persuades the prince to let her kiss him.
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Prince with First Lady: In October 2015, Harry is a guest in the USA.
He attends a basketball game for wounded soldiers with Michelle Obama.
The two want to advertise the second edition of the »Invictus Games«, which will take place in Orlando in 2016.
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Harry (right) with brother William and sister-in-law Kate in August 2017: In memory of Diana, the three laid flowers at Kensington Palace on the 20th anniversary of her death.
In 2016, they founded the “Heads Together” initiative, which works to eliminate stigma surrounding mental illness.
In interviews, Harry speaks openly about his own problems.
Accordingly, he suffered from anxiety and was on the verge of a collapse several times.
The death of his mother plunged him into "total chaos" - for years he did not allow any feelings before he sought professional help at the age of 28.
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At the "Invictus Games" in Toronto at the end of September 2017, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle appeared in public for the first time as a couple: whispering, cooing, holding hands.
At this point, they have been in a relationship for about a year.
Two months later, they announce their engagement.
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May 19, 2018: Harry and Meghan tied the knot at St. George's Chapel in Windsor.
Prince Henry of Wales, as Harry's official title is, is also Duke of Sussex, Earl of Dumbarton and Baron Kilkeel after marriage.
Meghan Markle now adorns the title "Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Sussex".
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Australia, Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand: Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan spent 16 days on a business trip in autumn 2018 and advertised the British royal family.
THE NEWS OF THE TRIP: The Duchess of Sussex is pregnant, Kensington Palace in London reported just hours after the couple's arrival in Sydney.
On Bondi Beach (photo), the royals meet with members of "One Wave," a group of surfing fans who are also dedicated to fighting mental health issues.
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Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was born in May 2019.
Here Harry and Meghan's son is seen with his parents in South Africa a few months later.
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The year 2020 starts with a bang: Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan want to give up most of their royal commitments.
Even members of the royal family are apparently surprised by the withdrawal announcement.
With their official departure from the Royal Company at the end of March, Harry and his wife lose their royal titles ("His/Her Royal Highness").
Harry is forced to resign as Captain General of the Royal Marines.
The two move to Santa Barbara, California.
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The US broadcaster CBS will broadcast a conversation between presenter Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan in March 2021.
The pair open up about some notable details from their time in Britain's royal family - and their decision to step down from royal duties.
Meghan sees herself as a victim of "character assassination" and reports speculation about her child's skin color in the royal family.
Harry says "the saddest part" of the story is that his entire family "never said anything" when his wife was repeatedly insulted with "colonialist undertones" in the British media.
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Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor is born on June 4, 2021.
The picture shows Harry and Meghan's daughter on her first birthday.
They named her after Queen Elizabeth's nickname and after Harry's mother, Princess Diana.
In November 2020, Duchess Meghan made it public in a personal text that she had suffered a miscarriage in July.
"Losing a child is an almost unbearable grief," she wrote in the New York Times.
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September 2022: After the death of their grandmother Elizabeth II, the Queen's grandchildren show up with their wives at Windsor Castle.
The relationship between the two couples, who were called "Fab Four" in the British press before Meghan and Harry left the royal family, is now considered difficult.
The publication of the book shouldn't make things any better.
Among other things, Harry writes that his brother threw him on the ground during a conflict in 2019.
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