114 Facts About Prince Harry

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, is a member of the British royal family.

Prince Harry is the younger son of King Charles III and his first wife Diana, Princess of Wales.

Prince Harry is fifth in the line of succession to the British throne.

Prince Harry was educated at Wetherby School, Ludgrove School, and Eton College.

Prince Harry spent parts of his gap year in Australia and Lesotho, then underwent officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

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Prince Harry was commissioned as a cornet into the Blues and Royals, serving temporarily with his brother William and completed training as a troop leader.

Prince Harry launched the Invictus Games in 2014 and remains the patron of its foundation.

Prince Harry gives patronage to several other organisations, including the HALO Trust and Walking With The Wounded.

In 2018, Prince Harry was made Duke of Sussex prior to his wedding to American actress Meghan Markle.

Together with his wife, Prince Harry sat down for a much publicised interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021, with whom he produced the mental health documentary series The Me You Can't See.

Prince Harry took them to venues that ranged from Walt Disney World and McDonald's to AIDS clinics and homeless shelters.

Prince Harry began accompanying his parents on official visits at an early age; his first overseas tour was with his parents to Italy in 1985.

Prince Harry travelled with his family to Canada in 1991 and 1998.

Prince Harry's mother died in a car crash in Paris the following year.

Prince Harry started at London's Jane Mynors' nursery school and the pre-preparatory Wetherby School.

In June 2003, Prince Harry completed his education at Eton with two A-Levels, achieving a grade B in art and D in geography, having decided to drop history of art after AS level.

Prince Harry has been described as "a top tier athlete", having played competitive polo and rugby union.

Prince Harry travelled to Lesotho, where he worked with orphaned children and produced the documentary film The Forgotten Kingdom.

Prince Harry entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst on 8 May 2005, where he was known as Officer Cadet Wales, and joined Alamein Company.

In 2006, it was announced that Prince Harry's unit was scheduled to be deployed in Iraq the following year.

In early June 2007, it was reported that Prince Harry had arrived in Canada to train alongside soldiers of the Canadian Forces and British Army, at CFB Suffield near Medicine Hat, Alberta.

Prince Harry was immediately pulled out due to the fear that the media coverage would put his security and the security of fellow soldiers at risk.

Prince Harry's tour made Harry the first member of the British royal family to serve in a war zone since his uncle, Prince Andrew, who flew helicopters during the Falklands War.

In October 2008, it was announced that Prince Harry would follow his brother, father and uncle in learning to fly military helicopters.

Prince Harry attended the Defence Helicopter Flying School at RAF Shawbury, where he joined his brother.

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Prince Harry Charles presented him with his flying brevet on 7 May 2010 at a ceremony at the Army Air Corps Base, Middle Wallop.

Prince Harry was awarded his Apache Flying Badge on 14 April 2011.

In June 2011, Clarence House announced that Prince Harry would be available for deployment in current operations in Afghanistan as an Apache helicopter pilot.

Prince Harry went to Wattisham Airfield in Suffolk, in the east of England, to complete his training to fly Apache helicopters.

On 7 September 2012, Prince Harry arrived at Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan as part of the 100-strong 662 Squadron, 3 Regiment, Army Air Corps, to begin a four-month combat tour as a co-pilot and gunner for an Apache helicopter.

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond stated that "additional security arrangements" were put in place, for Prince Harry could be a potential target, but added that he would face "the same risk as any other Apache pilot" while in combat.

On 21 January 2013, it was announced that Prince Harry was returning from a 20-week deployment in Afghanistan.

Prince Harry described his deployment as "a joy for me because I'm one of those people who loves playing PlayStation and Xbox, so with my thumbs I like to think I'm probably quite useful".

On 8 July 2013, the Ministry of Defence announced that Prince Harry had successfully qualified as an Apache aircraft commander.

Prince Harry compared operating the Apache's weapons systems in Afghanistan to playing video games.

Prince Harry discussed killing insurgents while piloting his Apache helicopter, and added "we fire when we have to, take a life to save a life, but essentially we're more of a deterrent than anything else".

On 17 January 2014, the Ministry of Defence announced that Prince Harry had completed his attachment to 3 Regiment Army Air Corps, and would take up a staff officer role, SO3 in HQ London District.

Prince Harry met British hopefuls for the Invictus Games at Tedworth House in Wiltshire for the start of the selection process on 29 April 2014.

On 15 May 2014, Prince Harry attended a ticket sale launch for Invictus Games at BT Tower, from where he tweeted on the Invictus Games' official Twitter account as the president of the Games.

Prince Harry later wrote an article in The Sunday Times about his experiences in Afghanistan: how they had inspired him to help injured personnel and how, after the trip to the Warrior Games, he had vowed to create the Invictus Games.

In January 2015, it was reported that Prince Harry would take on a new role in supporting wounded service personnel by working alongside members of the London District's Personal Recovery Unit for the MOD's Defence Recovery Capability scheme to ensure that wounded personnel have adequate recovery plans.

In late January 2015, Prince Harry visited The Battle Back Centre set up by the Royal British Legion, and Fisher House UK at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

In February and March 2015, Prince Harry visited Phoenix House in Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, a recovery centre run by Help for Heroes.

Prince Harry would be working with both those who administer and receive physical and mental care within the London District area.

On 6 April 2015, Prince Harry reported for duty to Australia's Chief of the Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin at the Royal Military College, Duntroon in Canberra, Australia.

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Prince Harry flew to Darwin later that day to begin his month-long secondment to the ADF's 1st Brigade.

Prince Harry's visit included detachments to NORFORCE as well as to an aviation unit.

Prince Harry joined SASR members in Perth for live-fire shooting exercises with numerous Special Forces weapons at a variety of ranges.

Prince Harry completed an insertion training exercise using a rigid-hull inflatable boat.

Prince Harry spent time flying over Sydney as co-pilot of an Army Black Hawk helicopter and participated in counter-terrorism training in Sydney Harbour with Royal Australian Navy clearance divers.

Prince Harry has described his 10 years in the army as "the happiest times in my life".

In July 2016, Prince Harry began a relationship with American actress Meghan Markle.

Prince Harry is godfather to "five or six" children, including the daughters of Major Nicholas van Cutsem and Jake Warren, his mother's godson, whose father is the Queen's horse racing manager.

Prince Harry became godfather to Charlie van Straubenzee's firstborn daughter in May 2020.

In 2002, it was reported that with Charles's encouragement Prince Harry had paid a visit to a drugs rehabilitation unit to talk to drug addicts after it emerged that he had been smoking cannabis and drinking at his father's Highgrove House and at a local pub in the summer of 2001.

Prince Harry later added that he had taken on boxing as a way of coping with mental stress and "letting out aggression".

Prince Harry mentioned that he suffered from "panic attacks [and] severe anxiety" in his late 20s and the heavy load of official visits and functions eventually "led to burnout".

Prince Harry further stated that he was willing to drink and take drugs, adding that he "wasn't drinking Monday to Friday, but [he] would probably drink a week's worth in one day on a Friday or a Saturday night" to help him cope with his issues.

Prince Harry was the subject of a prank by the Russian comedy duo Vovan and Lexus, who posed as climate activist Greta Thunberg and her father during two phone calls on New Year's Eve and 22 January 2020.

In November 2021, in a panel at Wireds Re:Wired Conference, Prince Harry claimed that a day before the January 6 United States Capitol attack he emailed Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, and 'warned' of potential civil unrest, but had not received a response.

Prince Harry added that he and Meghan were no longer on social media, and would avoid it "until things change".

Prince Harry later condemned the decision as "rolling back of constitutional rights" in his address to the United Nations on Mandela Day in July 2022.

At the age of 21, Prince Harry became a Counsellor of State and began his duties in that capacity.

Previously, William and Prince Harry's affairs had been handled by their father's office at Clarence House in central London.

In March 2012, Prince Harry led an official visit to Belize as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

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Prince Harry continued to the Bahamas and Jamaica, where the Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller, was considering initiating a process of turning Jamaica into a republic.

Prince Harry played tambourine and took part in the music video for the song "Sing", which was released in May 2012 to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee.

Prince Harry attended a reception at the Estonian Parliament and a NATO military exercise.

Prince Harry launched the Invictus Games Orlando 2016 with First Lady Michelle Obama and Second Lady Jill Biden at Fort Belvoir.

Prince Harry later attended an Invictus Games board meeting and a reception to celebrate the launch at the British Ambassador's Residence.

On 26 November 2015, as patron of Sentebale, Prince Harry travelled to Lesotho to attend the opening of the Mamohato Children's Centre.

Prince Harry visited Cape Town, where he presented the insignia of the Order of the Companions of Honour to the Archbishop on behalf of the Queen.

Prince Harry played the Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Cup, at Val de Vie Estate in Cape Town, fundraising for Sentebale.

Prince Harry stayed until the end of March 2016 to help rebuild a secondary school with Team Rubicon UK, and visited a Hydropower Project in Central Nepal.

In July 2018, Prince Harry travelled to Dublin, Ireland, alongside his wife Meghan, which marked their first overseas visit as a couple.

In March 2020, Prince Harry attended the opening of the Silverstone Experience in Silverstone Circuit together with racing driver Lewis Hamilton.

In March 2021, San Francisco-based mental health start-up BetterUp, a company that helps people get in contact with coaches or counsellors, said that Prince Harry would become its first chief impact officer; he "will help promote mental fitness and expand the company's roster of coaches and customers, among other duties".

In July 2021, it was announced that Prince Harry was set to publish a memoir via Penguin Random House in late 2022, with proceeds from its sales going to charity and Prince Harry reportedly earning an advance of at least $20 million.

Prince Harry has granted his patronage to organisations including WellChild, Dolen Cymru, MapAction and the London Marathon Charitable Trust; he stepped down from MapAction in 2019 and the London Marathon Charitable Trust in 2021.

In 2007, William and Prince Harry organised the Concert for Diana, in memory of their mother, which benefited the charities and patronages of Diana, William, and Prince Harry.

Prince Harry later attended the 21st International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, on 21 July 2016.

On 27 December 2017, Prince Harry was officially appointed the new president of African Parks, a conservation NGO.

Prince Harry previously spent three weeks in Malawi with African Parks where he joined a team of volunteers and professionals to carry out one of the largest elephant translocations in history.

Prince Harry had previously helped with relocating rhinos in the Okavango Delta and later became patron of the Rhino Conservation Botswana.

In March 2019, Prince Harry gave a speech at WE Day UK, an annual event organised by We Charity to inspire young people to become more active towards global social and environmental change.

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Prince Harry discussed mental health, climate change and the importance of social participation.

Prince Harry attended a Google summit in August 2019 and gave a speech on the importance of tackling climate change in Sicily.

Prince Harry explained that he and Meghan plan to have no more than 2 children to help sustain the environment.

In October 2019, along with other members of the royal family, Prince Harry voiced a Public Health England announcement, for the "Every Mind Matters" mental health program.

In February 2020, Prince Harry recorded a new version of the song "Unbroken" with Jon Bon Jovi.

Prince Harry helped with the establishment of Peak State, a mental fitness programme aimed at providing tools and resources for managing mental health, to which he publicly lent his support in May 2021.

Prince Harry had previously visited a minefield in Mozambique with the charity and spent two days learning about their work and mine-clearing techniques.

In June 2021, after ten members of the trust were killed by an armed group at a mine clearance camp in Afghanistan, Prince Harry issued a statement saying the attack "was nothing less than an act of barbarism".

Prince Harry enjoys playing many sports, including competitive polo, skiing, and motocross.

Prince Harry is a keen Rugby football fan and supported England's bid to host rugby union's 2015 Rugby World Cup, and presented the trophy at rugby league's 2019 Challenge Cup finals.

In 2004, Prince Harry trained as a Rugby Development Officer for the Rugby Football Union and coached students in schools to encourage them to learn the sport.

In January 2017, Prince Harry visited the Running Charity and its partner Depaul UK to highlight the role of sport in helping homeless and vulnerable people.

Prince Harry later issued a public statement apologising for his behaviour.

St James's Palace confirmed that Prince Harry was in the photographs, saying that he was essentially a victim whose privacy had been invaded and contacted the PCC upon hearing that a number of British newspapers were considering publishing the photographs.

In September 2010, Prince Harry was the subject of an animal cruelty investigation by the Hurlingham Polo Association after his polo pony was pictured with a wound on its side that some animal welfare activists alleged was caused by spikes on his spurs.

Prince Harry was cleared of any wrongdoing or cruelty after an independent vet concluded that it was more likely the wound had been caused by a collision rather than spurs.

Prince Harry received backlash again in August 2021 and 2022 for taking a two-hour flight on private jets between California and Aspen, Colorado, to participate in an annual charity polo tournament.

Prince Harry referred to the incident as the "CBE scandal" in December 2021 and stated that he severed ties with Mahfouz in 2015 after expressing "growing concerns" about his motives, though aides from his father's household denied having any discussions with him regarding Mahfouz.

In 2018 and 2021, Prince Harry was selected as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time magazine.

In February 2022, Prince Harry filed a libel suit in the High Court against Associated Newspapers Limited for a Mail on Sunday article which alleged he was trying to keep his legal battle against the Home Office to restore his police protection secret from the public through requesting a confidentiality order on the case.

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In June 2022, Mr Justice Nicklin ruled that parts of the article were potentially defamatory as it implied Prince Harry had been "spinning the facts" and had only offered to pay for the security arrangements after the legal battle against the Home Office began, though Nicklin rejected claims by Prince Harry's lawyers that the article portrayed him as a liar.

In February 2014, a judge sentenced the convicted criminal Ashraf Islam to three years in prison, as he had plotted to murder Prince Harry and had given it "considerable thought" due to his belief that Prince Harry had "a moral guilt" since he was in the army.

In October 2019, it was announced that Prince Harry had sued The Sun, the Daily Mirror and the now-defunct News of the World "in relation to alleged phone-hacking".

Lawyers for the couple subsequently accused the BBC of defamation and sent letters out to various media organisations saying the report was false and defamatory, and the allegations should not be repeated as Prince Harry had spoken to the Queen before announcing their daughter's name.

In January 2022, it was revealed that Prince Harry, whose taxpayer-funded police security was taken away after he stepped back from royal roles in 2020, had been in a legal fight since September 2021 to challenge the Home Office's refusal to allow him to pay for police protection in a personal capacity when in the UK as he believed his private security team's lack of access to local intelligence and legal jurisdiction abroad would make them unable to protect his family.

Prince Harry joined her later, and the pair talked about the initial difficulties associated with their move to the United States in 2020 and their plans for the future.

Prince Harry uses the earldom in Scotland and the barony in Northern Ireland.

On 4 June 2015, as part of the 2015 Special Honours, Prince Harry was knighted by his grandmother, the Queen, for "services to the sovereign", being appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order .

Agnatically, Prince Harry is a member of the House of Glucksburg, a cadet branch of the House of Oldenburg, one of Europe's oldest royal houses.