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Queen Elizabeth II wanted both William and Harry to see active service fighting alongside other British soldiers in Afghanistan, but it was decided that it was too risky to send the second-in-line to the throne, a former head of the Army has said.
Although Harry and William both wanted to fight, the revelation that William was kept safe seems likely to fuel the sense that William was consistently given preferential treatment to Harry by the institution due to his position in the hierarchy, a key claim of Harry’s book, Spare, which described William having a bigger bedroom and better furniture than him when they were children.
The revelation of the queen’s thoughts on the matter was made by the former head of the British army, General Sir Mike Jackson, in a new TV documentary.