On Wednesday, Prince Harry criticized “harmful” reactions to… His memoirs, which achieved record salessaying he was very upset by the “lie” that he had bragged about killing 25 people in Afghanistan while he was a military helicopter pilot.
In his memoirs Spare, or “The Reserve,” King Charles’s youngest son looks back on his two stints in Afghanistan, the first as air traffic controller in 2007/2008 and the second in 2012 when he was Apache attack helicopter co-pilotand the number of people he killed.
And the British newspapers, which Harry criticized harshly in his memoirs, and former British soldiers, attacked his decision to announce the number of those he killed, saying that this might expose him and others to the risk of retaliation.
Speaking to American interviewer Stephen Colbert on “The Late Show,” he said the press had taken his revelations out of context.
He added: “Without a doubt, the most dangerous lie they told is that I somehow bragged about the number of people I killed in Afghanistan.”
On Tuesday, the publisher of Harry’s memoir said it had become Britain’s fastest-selling non-fiction book of all time.
The British press has been dominated since the days of what Harry revealed in his memoirs about his life and other members of the royal family, accusing them of “collaborating with the devil”, or “yellow journalism”, as he described it, to improve their reputation at the expense of his and his wife Megan’s.
The English edition of Spear sold more than 1.43 million copies across all formats in the United States, Canada and Britain on its first day of publication.
“I’m not going to lie that the last few days have been painful and difficult,” Harry said.