Another blow to Prince Harry: After his and Meghan Markle's embarrassing business failures in huge deals with Spotify and Netflix, another domestic shake-up is now coming, and it probably hurts even more. A new book ranking the top 200 graduates at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst has deliberately chosen to ignore Prince Harry, with his older brother William not only being included in the list, but also being chosen to write the book's introduction.
Harry and Meghan, Photo: Reuters
The painful blow comes about a year after the publication of his scandalous autobiography, in which, alongside revealing embarrassing information about his family, Harry, 39, bragged about his military service and detailed how he killed 25 Taliban members while fighting in Afghanistan, calling them "chess pieces on the board." The defiant remark sparked outrage at the time, with senior military officials calling it "a betrayal of the soldiers who fought alongside him."
wrote the introduction. Prince William, Photo by Getty Images
"I totally understand the decision not to include it in the book," Colonel Richard Kemp, a longtime British Army veteran, told The Sun. "I would probably include him to balance, but it's really no disappointment not to see him. I don't think he did anything particularly significant in his service, but he was certainly a privileged person who joined Sandhurst. I assume that the murky relationship between him and the royal family led to the decision not to include him. One of the things Harry mentioned in the book is how the military taught him to see the enemy as someone who is not human. That's not what we were taught and it cast a big shadow over a lot of the things he did," he concluded.
Prince Harry during his military service, Photo: GettyImages
"Not everyone who was trained there was successful," reinforced Kemp's words by the book's author, Vaughn Kent Payne, adding a sting to Harry: "There were also traitors and those who forgave them."
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