James hewitt
On New Year’s Eve, as the congregation at Sandringham was being addressed about the ecological extravagance of Christmas lights, three 500lb bombs were dropped on Taliban bunkers by two U.S. It just makes you want to work for the man so you get the job done. ‘Once a job needs doing he doesn’t shout and scream at you, he just asks you to do it. ‘He’s one of those officers you can talk to - he’s laid-back and chilled out,’ adds L/Cpl Frankie O’Leary. ‘To be honest, I think he was bored with the way the royals live, and what they expect the world to provide for them.’ Happy little boy: Princess Diana with Prince Harry in 1987 on holiday in Mallorca ‘Harry’s insistence on going to war and living under dangerous and uncomfortable conditions in Afghanistan speaks volumes about wanting to gain experience outside his upbringing,’ he says. It’s nice just to be here with all the guys, and just mucking about as one of the lads.’Ī psychiatrist who once treated his mother, the late Princess of Wales, believes that Harry’s career choice is a direct response to his royal background. I honestly don’t know what I miss at all: music, we’ve got music, we’ve got light, we’ve got food, we’ve got non- alcoholic drink. ‘What am I missing the most?’ he said to one interviewer at the time. But he is unlikely to have felt disappointed about missing out on the royals’ splendid occasion - he is, apparently, as lukewarm as his mother Diana always was about spending Christmas at the royal Norfolk estate. The 23-year-old prince’s circumstances were at that moment without question dangerous and extremely uncomfortable. Wherever these words find you, and in whatever circumstances, I want to wish you all a blessed Christmas.’
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‘I pray that all of you who are missing those who are dear to you will find strength and comfort in your families and friends. Later that day, during her annual televised broadcast, the Queen must surely have had her beloved grandson in mind as she spoke the following heartfelt words: ‘I want to draw attention to another group of people who deserve our thoughts this Christmas: those who have given their lives or who have been severely wounded while serving with the Armed Forces in Afghanistan.
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Playtime: Prince Charles and Prince Harry larking about in 1992 Harry and I made a run for the buildings - we had no body armour on, just our PT kits. ‘It was one of those fire-fights they regularly mounted from their trenches close by. ‘We were actually working out when the Taliban opened up,’ remembers Connor. That Christmas Day, as the Queen and her party were cheered by well-wishers outside Sandringham church, Harry Wales and Bill Connor stepped outside for their morning exercises. This was a prince, the third in line to the British throne, yet he made it known that he wanted to be treated just as the junior officer he was.’ He came in like a regular soldier and that’s how he remained. ‘There was no special security detail, no SAS. ‘We couldn’t believe it when he arrived,’ says Lt Colonel Bill Connor. The truth was that while Her Majesty and her guests were beginning their Christmas celebrations in 2007, 2nd Lieutenant Wales was more than 3,500 miles away in southern Helmand, war-torn Afghanistan’s most dangerous province.Įven as his relatives were plumping up the pillows on their four-poster beds Harry - the first senior royal to fight on a battlefield since Queen Victoria’s grandson Maurice in World War I - was surveying the tiny, cell-like room at Forward Operating Base Delhi that was his temporary home. Only she, and a tiny number of the family, were in on the secret. When someone joked: ‘He’s confined to barracks - he’s been a naughty boy’, the Queen smiled.
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Over dry martinis at Sandringham - mixed to the servants’ special recipe - there was just one question on the Royal Family’s lips: ‘Where’s Harry?’ Heart to heart: Prince Harry with Prince Charles at the polo