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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, is a member of the British royal family. He is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is sixth in the line of succession to the British throne. He was officially styled Prince Henry of Wales from birth until his marriage, but is known as Prince Harry.Harry was educated at schools in the United Kingdom and spent parts of his gap year in Australia and Lesotho. He then underwent officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was commissioned as a cornet into the Blues and Royals, serving temporarily with his brother, Prince William, and completed his training as a troop leader. In 2007–08, he served for over ten weeks in Helmand, Afghanistan, but was pulled out after an Australian magazine revealed his presence there. He returned to Afghanistan for a 20-week deployment in 2012–13 with the Army Air Corps. He left the army in June 2015.

Harry launched the Invictus Games in 2014 and remains patron of its Foundation. He also gives patronage to several other organisations, including the HALO Trust, the London Marathon Charitable Trust, and Walking With The Wounded. On 19 May 2018, he married the American actress Meghan Markle. Hours before the wedding, his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II conferred on him the title Duke of Sussex.

✵ 15. September 1984
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Famous Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Quotes

“There is no way I am going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.”

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

Regarding his desire to be deployed in the Iraq War. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4248234.stm (2005).

“I'm not the important one. It doesn't matter what I do.”

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

Referring to his position as 'the spare' behind elder brother William (before William had children of his own)
Source: Seward, Ingrid. William and Harry. London: Arcade, 2003. ISBN: 9781559706902.

“I mean, I'll do the best I can.”

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

Speaking about his view of his royal role, in the near future from September 2005
Source: [BBC NEWS UK 'I am who I am', http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4248234.stm, 2013-07-06, http://archive.today/DUpMy, 2013-07-06]

“Where I can see myself is doing as much as I can in the position that I've got.”

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

Source: [BBC NEWS UK 'I am who I am', http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4248234.stm, 2013-07-06, http://archive.today/DUpMy, 2013-07-06]

“I wouldn’t use the word ‘quitting.’ It was a case of, ‘I very much feel like, if I’m going to cause this much chaos to a lot of people,’ then maybe I should bow out, and not just for my own sake, for everyone else’s sake.”

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

Regarding his interrupted, first deployment to Afghanistan
Source: Jobson, Robert. Harry’s War: The True Story of the Soldier Prince. London: John Blake, 2008. Kindle.

“I'm not going to be some person in the Royal Family who just finds a lame excuse to go abroad and do all sorts of sunny holidays and whatever.”

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

Source: [BBC NEWS UK 'I am who I am', http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4248234.stm, 2013-07-06, http://archive.today/DUpMy, 2013-07-06]

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