AN Army Major who helped oversee the training of Prince Harry has branded him “disgraceful”

AN Army Major who helped oversee the training of Prince Harry has branded him “disgraceful”
Major Mike Shearer told GB News his decision to reveal how many soldiers he’d killed and to descrbe them as chess pieces was a huge mistake.
He said: “It is disgraceful behaviour. I’ve been in a number of conflicts where the enemy has met their end. Of course, you fight hard. That’s what we’re there to do. But as soon as the enemy is dead, they get the utmost respect. And there’s no gloating. Quite frankly, there’s no time for gloating and to talk about soldiers, the Taliban, who are fighting for their cause, to speak about them as “chess pieces that you just knock over”, I’m bewildered that it would come to that.
“There’s no scoring. First of all, I don’t even know how you would count that. You know, in my own time, in the Gulf War, there were a number of engagements on armour and in the trenches. when you’ve had a kill but there’s no notching. It is just bad behaviour.”
Commenting on what he thought of Princes William and Harry, who he met during their training, he added: “William was studious and capable, first of all, polite, mannered and focused on what he was doing at the time.
“And Harry, he was fairly much the same – a bit more raucous. You know, he would get involved with the soldiers a bit more. He would even play about and joke with him a bit more than his brother, but they were both fine young men.”
The comments come amid reports Harry has more than enough material for a follow up to Spare.
The Duke of Sussex has revealed that he has enough material to write another book, having held back disclosures for which the King and the Prince of Wales would not “ever forgive” him if made public.
In an interview with Bryony Gordon of The Daily Telegraph, Prince Harry said the original transcript for his book, Spare, was twice the length of the final draft, admitting that a lot of the detail edited out concerned interactions with both his father and his brother.
The disclosure is likely to leave the Royal family deeply concerned about future revelations, as Buckingham Palace sources noted that he might be forced to write further books for financial gain.
The Duke said: “The first draft was different. It was 800 pages. And now it’s down to 400 pages. It could have been two books, put it that way. And the hard bit was taking things out.”
He added: “There are some things that have happened, especially between me and my brother, and to some extent between me and my father, that I just don’t want the world to know.
“Because I don’t think they would ever forgive me.”
He admitted that he had struggled at times to determine what to include and what to leave out following 50 video calls with his ghost-writer, aware that within his family, writing a book was “an absolute ‘No'”.
The Prince, who has accused palace staff of lying to protect his brother Prince William, claimed that the media had “a s— ton of dirt about my family, I know they have, and they sweep it under the carpet for juicy stories about someone else”.
He said that he knew he was “going to get trashed” for anything he included in the memoir about his family but insisted that it was impossible to tell his story without their inclusion.
The Duke also revealed that he felt a “responsibility” to reform the monarchy for the sake of Prince George, nine, Princess Charlotte, seven, and Prince
Louis, four. “I know that out of those three children, at least one will end up like me, the spare,” he said. “And that hurts, it worries me.”
However, he admitted that the notion frustrated the Prince of Wales. “He has made it very clear to me that his kids are not my responsibility,” he said.