Prince Harry

I don't like England much - Prince Harry
By Luke Baker in London March 01, 2008

BRITAIN'S Prince Harry, who has been serving on the front lines in Afghanistan for the past 10 weeks, says he doesn't like England that much and dislikes the nonsense British newspapers write.

The Prince, third in line to the British throne, made his comments last week, before news of his secret deployment in Afghanistan leaked on a US website.

He told an interviewer he was enjoying being in a combat zone and not "sitting around" in Windsor, the town outside London where the royal family has a castle and Harry's regiment has its headquarters.

Asked if he would ever want to come back to Afghanistan, he said: "I don't want to sit around in Windsor.

"But I generally don't like England that much and, you know, it's nice to be away from all the press and the papers and all the general shite that they write."

The comments, made available to the media under a pool arrangement, are unlikely to be welcomed by Harry's supporters in Britain or by the popular tabloid press.

Messages have been posted on websites praising his bravery.

Prince Harry is the first member of the royal family to go to war since the Falklands conflict with Argentina 25 years ago.

But he is now to be withdrawn from Afghanistan because of the leaks, which military commanders fear may expose his fellow soldiers to additional danger.

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Warrior Prince

New Idea under fire over Harry leak
By staff writers and wires
February 29, 2008

AUSTRALIAN magazine New Idea is at the centre of a storm over the media's breaking of a news blackout on Prince Harry's deployment in Afghanistan.

The magazine was named by the US-based Drudge Report website as one of two media outlets that had broken a secret deal between the young royal and the press.

Multimedia: Prince Harry talks about Afghanistan

As part of the deal a group of journalists visited the prince in Helmand on condition that details would only be publicised once he was safely back in Britain.

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Prince Harry fighting Taliban in Afghanistan
From correspondents in London
February 29, 2008

PRINCE Harry has been fighting the Taliban on the front line in Afghanistan, the defence ministry in London said overnight. The 23-year-old prince, an officer in the Household Cavalry regiment, has spent the past 10 weeks secretly serving in the volatile southern province of Helmand, where most of Britain's troops are based.

His deployment makes him the first British royal to be sent on active military service in nearly 26 years, when his uncle, Prince Andrew, flew Royal Navy helicopters during the Falklands War with Argentina in 1982.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) had kept the young royal's deployment secret under a news blackout agreed by British media to prevent details reaching insurgents and endangering the prince and his comrades.
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