Prince William has succeeded the King as Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Air Corps
Prince Harry will be feeling disappointed that his brother Prince William has succeeded the King as Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Air Corps, according to former BBC royal correspondent Michael Cole.
He told GB News: “Prince Harry will be feeling a certain disappointment, if not personal sleight, because this regiment, the Army Air Corps, was the regiment in which he served very gallantly in Afghanistan…
“He infamously claimed in his memoir Spare that he shot 25 Taliban, he thinks he did, incidentally painting a target on his own back for the rest of his life, unfortunately,
“But he will feel with some reason that this is what he's lost, his associations, his ranks, his patronages within the armed forces have been taken from him.”
He continued: “This is the life he left behind. He's chosen to go into self-imposed exile in California and he's lost all that…
“So, I think pause for thought for Harry as he goes back to California after his tour of Nigeria, what he's left behind because he said that he found himself and he found comradeship and he found his life.
“I think he found his own existence very much within this regiment of which he is not now associated.”
Cole added: “That progress through Nigeria has been a success for Sussexes, without any doubt. Of course, it wasn't a royal tour, it wasn't an official visit. It wasn't a state visit. It was a private visit by two royal personages…
“As we saw, the pair they were in all their loveliness in Nigeria, they're enjoying it. And maybe they're enjoying the boost of having their royal status celebrated in the way it was.”
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