Queen Elizabeth agreed to Prince Harry being despatched to battle however didn’t suppose the identical for Prince William, a royal documentary revealed. Basic Sir Mike Jackson urged that Prince Harry has been handled because the “spare”- the tile of his memoir. y
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The ex-head of the military who had many conferences with the late monarch mentioned, “I’ll break the rule about not divulging what goes on on this one event, when she was very clear. She mentioned, ‘My grandsons have taken my shilling, subsequently they have to do their obligation’ – and that was that.”
“But it surely was determined that for William, as inheritor to the inheritor, the chance is simply too nice. However for his youthful brother, the chance was acceptable,” he added.
Prince Harry served two Afghanistan excursions from 2007 to 2008, and 2012 to 2013 whereas Prince William was an officer within the Family Cavalry and later turned an RAF Search and Rescue helicopter pilot.
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The sequence additionally claims that Princess Margaret refused to cease listening to the Archers as Queen Elizabeth visited her on her deathbed in 2002.
Princess Margaret’s former lady-in-waiting mentioned that when the Queen’s sister was dying, she refused to cease listening to Radio 4’s the Archers when the monarch arrived.
“About two minutes later, I heard footsteps coming down the steps. So I mentioned ‘Ma’am, is there something incorrect?’ And he or she mentioned, ‘Sure. Margaret’s listening to the Archers and each time I say one thing she simply says, ‘Shush’. So I went up and mentioned to Princess Margaret, ‘the Queen’s solely obtained a short while’, turning off her wi-fi, and I introduced them tea and left them.”
On Prince Andrew, the documentary reveals his friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The five-part sequence relies on the non-public challenges that Queen Elizabeth confronted all through her reign.