William had felt “tremendous guilt” over “the other woman” whom he had “long harboured suspicions about”. Harry and William told their father they would not stand in the way of his relationship with Camilla, but begged him not to marry her. It’s not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but nor does it embarrass me,” he wrote, according to the Times’ translation from the Spanish edition of his book.īut in order to kill, it was important he did not see the Taliban fighters as people at the time, the prince continues, but rather as “chess pieces removed from the board … bad guys eliminated”. “It seemed to me essential not to be afraid of that number. He knew the number because technology allowed him to say “with exactness” how many “enemy combatants” he was responsible for killing. In one unexpected admission, Harry reveals that he killed 25 Taliban fighters during his second tour of Afghanistan. Many a true word spoken in jest.” Afghanistan But minutes after delivering it, he said, Charles was said to have “gone off to meet with his girlfriend”. He recounts hearing, aged 20, that his father allegedly said to his mother on the day of his birth: “Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an heir and a spare – my work is done.” It was presumably a joke, Harry writes. Harry was “the shadow, the support, the plan B”, and believes he was “brought into this world in case something happened”. There was “no judgment about it but also no ambiguity”. It was “shorthand” used by his father, now king, his mother, his grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, and “even Granny” – the late queen – the Times reports. Prince William was the heir, “whereas I was the spare”, Harry writes, according to reports in Friday’s newspapers.

The glass spare book