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In his highly anticipated memoir titled 'Spare', Prince Harry wrote that he killed 25 people while serving in Afghanistan. Prince Harry had spent 10 years in the British Army, including two front-line tours in Afghanistan. “Most soldiers don't know exactly how many kills they have to their credit. In combat conditions, you often shoot indiscriminately. But in the age of Apaches and laptops, everything I did during two missions was recorded and timestamped,” Prince Harry wrote of his time in Afghanistan.
“I could always see exactly how many enemy combatants I had killed. And it seemed essential to me not to be afraid of that figure. Of the many things I learned in the armed forces, one of the most important was to be responsible for my own actions,” he continued. However, Prince Harry shared how he felt after his experience in Afghanistan. “So my number: twenty-five. It wasn't something that filled me with satisfaction, but I wasn't ashamed either. Of course I would have preferred not to have that number on my military resume or in my head, but I would also have preferred to live in a world without the Taliban, a world without war. But even for a shallow practitioner of wishful thinking like me, there are realities that cannot be changed," he wrote, according to The Guardian.
