Prince Harry deserves a lot of credit
Dear Allan Mallinson,
Your perspective on Prince Harry’s deployment in Afghanistan was very welcome. Most newspapers have been too busy swooning about Matt Drudge to look at the whole situation from Harry’s point of view.
When the question of Prince Harry serving in Iraq first came to light, it seemed utterly ridiculous that he could be sent there amid a blaze of media attention because he would endanger other people’s lives. Sadly, this robbed him of fulfilling his ambition that he has held for years simply because of his position in the Royal Family, not because he didn’t want to serve his country. I think you summed it up nicely by saying “every soldier thinks meanly of himself until he has heard the sound of the guns” because Harry must have become extremely frustrated with not being allowed to serve in the British Army. The fact that his cover has been blown means that he must come home immediately, but the last two and a half months serving alongside fellow British troops will have meant the world to him and gives some idea of how committed he is to his duty and his country. Serving in Afghanistan would only have come about through his insistence on being deployed alongside other British troops.
Good on you, Harry.
A.Tory
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I happened to attend the same university as Cornet Wales’ brother and know first hand of the extend of media intrusion into these people’s lives. It seems terribly unfair especially as they are born into these roles and not courting fame like a celebrity.
For this news to be leaked should be taken very seriously for this idiot has now jeopardised not only Cornet Wales’ life but all of the troops he is serving with. He will obviously be missed if he is forced to return to Britain but at least his credibility and reputation have been enhanced by service to his grandmother and his country!
He was never going to be able to stay after this story came out, but there is a case to say that after two and a half months he should be returning home anyway, such is the dangerous situation in Afghanistan.
If as has just been reported ,Harry says “he does not like England very much”he is a bigger fool than his Mother was, making a statement like that at a time like this ,and i am a royalist