Prince Harry's 'Distasteful' Comments about Taliban Killings

Jan 6, 2023 | The Duke of Sussex has revealed that he killed 25 people while serving as an Apache helicopter pilot in Afghanistan. In his autobiography Spare, Harry said he did not think of them as “people” but instead as “chess pieces” that had been taken off the board. The Telegraph, which obtained a Spanish language copy of the memoir from a bookshop in Spain, revealed that Harry wrote that flying six missions during his second tour of duty on the front line resulted in “the taking of human lives” of which he was neither proud nor ashamed. Describing watching a video of each “kill” when he returned to base, he wrote of Taliban fighters as “baddies” who were being eliminated before they could kill “goodies”. “So, my number is 25. It’s not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but nor does it embarrass me,” he wrote. Former British Army Officer Colonel Richard Kemp says it is "distasteful" for Prince Harry to be publicising how many people he killed in battle.