Britain’s Prince Harry faced sharp criticism from the media, commentators, army veterans and even the Taliban on Friday over his newly released book and some of the statements in it. Buckingham Palace has not yet commented on the contents of the book, which was leaked to the public in advance.
Harry’s memoir, titled Spare, will be officially released next Tuesday. However, after the book accidentally went on sale in Spain this week, revelations of him have surfaced in the British media. In the book, Prince Harry describes how his brother and heir to the throne, Prince William, allegedly betrayed him subjects knocked down as he lost control, catching drugs or killed 25 people during military service in Afghanistan. We have informed you about most of these topics in individual articles.
For this, Harry has earned condemnation and immense ridicule. The book is the latest in Harry and his wife Meghan’s feud with the British royal family. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down from their official duties in 2020 and moved to California, where they have since secured a number of lucrative contracts to tell their story.
Writer AN Wilson has described Harry’s decision to publish the book as calculated and mischievous, arguing that the result will be to increase sympathy for the royal family rather than the prince himself. Tabloid newspaper The sun wrote that Harry chose a destructive and vengeful path and traded his own family for millions of dollars. In an editorial he advised him to listen to the appeals of his friends and to stop for his sake.
Harry’s claim that he killed 25 people in Afghanistan and his comparison of his service in the military to removing pieces from a chessboard were seen by many as inappropriate. He has also angered some veterans who say the prince has also turned his back on his military family, writes the US portal. Cnn. In Afghanistan, Harry’s remarks were condemned by a spokesman for the Taliban government, who said on Twitter: “Mr. Harry. Those you killed weren’t chess pieces, they were human beings.’
Zdroje: CNN, The Sun, Twitter
