Retired British commander ‘money making scam’
Taliban “war criminals, turn to international tribunal”
Cannabis and cocaine at Eton College
Inappropriate privacy disclosure royal silence
▲ Prince Harry of England
AP Yonhap News
Britain’s Prince Harry (39) made headlines again when he revealed in his autobiography that he killed 25 Taliban during the Afghan war and took drugs when he was a minor.
According to media such as the Guardian and the BBC on the 7th (local time), Prince Harry’s autobiography “Spare”, which was scheduled to be published on the 10th, was secretly sold earlier in some Spanish bookstores, and British and American media scrambled to report on the contents of the book.
Right away, the part that melted the experience of going to Afghanistan as an Apache helicopter co-pilot in 2012-2013 and killing people emerged as a problem. “I’m not proud of it, but I’m not ashamed of it either. It was like removing a piece from a chessboard.” Former Colonel Richard Kemp, who served as Afghan commander, told the BBC this could “stimulate the spirit of retaliation of the Taliban”. Colonel Tim Collins, a retired British commander, criticized (the autobiography) as “a tragic money-making scam”. The Telegraph reported that the Taliban side claimed that Prince Harry was a “criminal of war” and said it should have been referred to an international tribunal.
Prince Harry has also admitted to taking drugs. While attending Eton College, he allegedly smoked marijuana in the bathroom and snorted cocaine on weekend hunts. Furthermore, at the age of 17, he had his first sexual relationship with a woman behind a bar, and in 2019, while arguing with his older brother, Prince William, at his London home, “I was grabbed by the neck and fell to the floor.In doing so, he was injured in the back by a broken dog bowl.
In addition to this, the autobiography contains secret stories about the royal family, such as the conflict between his sister-in-law Kate Middleton and his wife Meghan Markle, and an anecdote between the former Crown Princess Diana (1961-1997) and King Charles III.
The criticisms for revealing all of his inappropriate private life, once in third place in the line of succession to the throne, are formidable. Jonathan Dimbleby, author of the autobiography of King Charles III, told The Guardian the allegation was “the (low) kind of revelation that would only come from a B-level celebrity”.
Meanwhile, the British royal family has yet to comment on Prince Harry’s book.
Reporter Kim Hyun-yi
