“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).

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