Prince Harry’s Living Legends of Aviation award was criticised by yet another royal expert who labelled it “ludicrous” simply because he hated flying.
The Duke of Sussex will be inducted into the Living Legends of Aviation Hall of Fame for his contribution to the aviation industry due to his experience flying as a pilot in the British Army. He will join fabled astronauts like Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong.
The ceremony will take place on January 19 in California and will be hosted by John Travolta as the “Official Ambassador of Aviation”.
But royal biographer expert Angela Levin claimed Harry only did two things in Afghanistan and was unhappy during most of it.
She told Talk TV: “It’s absolutely ludicrous. When Harry came back just 10 weeks after the beginning because somebody leaked it and they had to do it for his own safety, he begged to go back but they wouldn’t let him go back and fight. So they told him ‘You should learn to fly a helicopter’.”
“These Apache helicopters are worth £35million pounds each, so it was a very big responsibility. Everyone was surprised because he worked very hard and came at the top of the class too.”
“And everybody thought that because he had dyslexia, according to his teacher, he could do it better than a lot of people.”
But Levin, who wrote Harry: A Biography of a Prince, claimed the duke was unhappy most of the time flying the helicopter because he wanted to be “on the ground with the guys”.
She explained: “[Harry] had two jobs, one was to provide cover for troops on the ground when attacked and the other one is to locate enemies and annihilate them and we know from his book Spare that he annihilated 25. But that’s it.
“It lasted 20 weeks, he was unhappy doing it a lot of the time, because he wanted to be on the ground and in the front.
“So he grumbled because he wanted to be ‘with the guys’ and he wasn’t. But that’s it and it’s not enough to be with the high people who’ve done the most amazing things.”
Prince Harry has served the military for ten years, completing two tours of Afghanistan where he flew in several combat missions, as well as flying in training missions in the UK, US and Australia.
He is also the founder of the Invictus Games, a sports tournament for wounded and sick ex-military personnel.
