What’s the best way to start Memorial Day? The answer to this question varies from person to person and also according to age. However, if we could talk to Prince Harry, he might tell us to be part of the famous TIME 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, compiled by the American magazine Time, whose cover was shared online exactly last Wednesday, which is The day he turned 37 was one of the most important events in history that marks the birth of Princess Diana and Prince Charles’ youngest son.
However, Harry did not always appear in the media for the best reasons. At the age of 17, he admitted to smoking cannabis and began to be closely followed by the sensational press who photographed him in bars and clubs. In 2005, he was at the center of a new controversy, when he donned a Nazi costume to a carnival party. Soon after this scandal, he joined the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.
That is why, in 2008, he was on a mission in Afghanistan and was brought home for security reasons after the information was released. In a biography of Harry, by Katie Nicholl, an English reporter who has accompanied the British royal family for several years, which was launched in 2018, Captain Deacon Lee Wood, who served in the British Army alongside the Prince, explained that they came close to losing a life when they understood the bomb was 15 cm from the place where the cars were turning, he ordered everyone to stop, and in this way no one died.
In 2013, again on a mission in the country that continued to experience a military climate, the prince claimed to have killed “some Taliban” while serving as a co-pilot of an Apache helicopter for twenty weeks. The Taliban announced their intent to kidnap or kill Harry as he was passing through the country, and according to the British press, an Afghan rebel commander described him as a drunken “jackal”, bent on killing “innocent Afghans”.
However, it wasn’t Harry’s brief military career or his turbulent adolescence that led him to be cherished by the media, but rather the fact that he supports several causes, particularly those related to mental health. Last November, for example, the former Duke of Sussex – who relinquished the royal title in January 2020 – was seen as a volunteer for Compton’s veterans’ association, The Walker Family Events Foundation.
In addition, on May 19, 2018, when he married American actress Meghan Markle, he took another step towards stardom. The couple began dating in June 2016, but the relationship was known only in September.
On November 8, the royal family’s media official released an official statement regarding the “wave of abuse and harassment” directed at Markle following the engagement announcement. This is because Markle is the second American and the first multiracial person to marry a member of the English royal family. Unlike what happened at the wedding of William and Kate Middleton in 2011, the British government has not announced when Harry and Meghan’s wedding will be a holiday.
Despite Harry and Meghan’s official departure from the royal family, titled ‘Megxit’, the family used their birthday to show their love for the father of two-year-old Archie and three-month-old Lilibert. The official account of the royal family, on the social networking site Twitter, posted four pictures of Harry with the description “We wish the Duke of Sussex a happy birthday!” Prince Charles has released three photos – one of which was taken on a visit. To South Africa, in 1997 – with an identical letter and William and Kate did the same, but using a single photo of the birthday boy.
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