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Prince Harry revealed that he killed 25 people while serving in Afghanistan.
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The Telegraph got an excerpt from the book before its release.
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“It’s not a number that satisfies me, but it doesn’t embarrass me either,” Harry wrote.
Prince Harry wrote in his forthcoming memoir “Spare” that he killed more than two dozen people in Afghanistan after the military taught him not to consider members of the Taliban as human beings, according to The Telegraph, which obtained an excerpt from the book .
Although he wrote that he is “neither proud nor ashamed”, his admission is likely to make him and his family a bigger terrorist target, The Independent reported, citing several critics, including a publicist, a journalist and a former commando.
“In the age of Apaches and laptops,” said Harry, he was able to determine exactly how many enemy combatants I had killed. And it seemed essential to me not to be afraid of that number.”
The 38-year-old Duke of Sussex served as a forward air traffic controller in Britain’s Royal Army from 2007-2008 and piloted the attack helicopter between 2012-2013, Al Jazeera reported.
“It seemed essential to me not to be afraid of that number. So my number is 25. It’s not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but it doesn’t embarrass me either,” he wrote, adding that the number came from of six missions during his second tour of the country.
Harry claimed that the military instilled the idea that the Taliban members he fought against were “chess pieces” in him.
“I made it my goal from day one never to go to bed with any doubt as to whether I had done the right thing… whether I had shot at the Taliban and only the Taliban, with no civilians around. I wanted back to Britain with all my limbs, but more than that, I wanted to go home with an intact conscience,” Harry wrote.
Harry’s representatives did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
Penguin Random House, the book’s publisher, did not widely share excerpts of the memoir prior to its publication on January 10, 2023, but the Telegraph wrote that it obtained a Spanish-language copy of the book from a Spanish bookstore.
His memoirs also revealed a time when Prince William attacked him during an argument over Meghan Markle, claimed the royal family wants to see him and his wife as “villains,” and described how Harry lost his virginity to an older woman.
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