Retired British commander “scam to make money”
Taliban “war criminals, refer to international court”
Cannabis and cocaine at Eton College
Inappropriate privacy disclosure royal silence
▲ Prince Harry of England
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Britain’s Prince Harry (39) made a big stir once more when he revealed in his autobiography that he killed 25 Taliban during the war in Afghanistan and that he took drugs when he was a minor.
According to media outlets such as the Guardian and BBC on the 7th (local time), Prince Harry’s autobiography ‘Spare’, which was scheduled to be published on the 10th, was secretly sold at some Spanish bookstores first, 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 came up as a problem. “I’m not proud of it, but I’m not ashamed either. It was like removing a piece from a chessboard.” Former Colonel Richard Kemp, who served as the Afghan commander, told the BBC that this might “stimulate the Taliban’s spirit of retaliation.” Colonel Tim Collins, a retired British commander, criticized (the autobiography) as “a tragic scam to make money.” The Taliban side is calling Prince Harry a “war criminal” and has said he should be referred to an international court, The Telegraph reported.
Prince Harry has also admitted to taking drugs. While attending Eton College, he smoked marijuana in the bathroom and inhaled cocaine on weekend hunts. He also had his first sexual relationship with a woman behind a bar when he was 17 years old, and in 2019, he got into a fight with his older brother, Prince William, at his London home and “was grabbed by the collar and fell to the floor. He added an anecdote, such as “he hurt his back with a dog food bowl broken in a barrel.”
In addition to this, the autobiography contains secret stories regarding the royal family, such as the conflict between her sister-in-law, Princess Kate Middleton and her wife, Meghan Markle, and anecdotes between former Crown Princess Diana (1961-1997) and King Charles III.
Criticism for revealing all of his inappropriate private life, once ranked third in the line of succession to the throne, is formidable. Jonathan Dimbleby, author of the autobiography of King Charles III, told The Guardian that the accusation was “the (low) kind of revelation you would expect from a B-level celebrity.”
Meanwhile, the British royal family has yet to comment on Prince Harry’s book.
Reporter Kim Hyun-yi
