Prince Harry has been labelled "exploitative" and "unfortunate" over claims made in his controversial memoir, "Spare".
In Spare, which first hit British shelves in January last year, the Duke of Sussex describes killing 25 Taliban soldiers as "chess pieces taken off the board" - comments which were lambasted by the military community at the time.
Harry - or a ghost writer - had written: "It wasn't a statistic that filled me with pride but nor did it make me ashamed... When I was plunged into the heat and confusion of battle, I didn't think about those as 25 people. You can't kill people if you see them as people.
"In truth, you can't hurt people if you see them as people. They were chess pieces taken off the board, bad guys eliminated before they kill good guys. They trained me to 'other' them - and they trained me well."
Harry - or a ghost writer - had written "I didn't think about those as 25 people"
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Harry had served in the British Army in Afghanistan
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In Spare, Harry said the statistic made him neither proud nor shameful
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Speaking on The Royal Record, GB News' Royal Correspondent Cameron Walker and GBNews.com's Royal Editor Svar Nanan-Sen described Harry's "chess pieces" remarks as "unfortunate" - but noted that the prince "clearly" would have given the go-ahead for their inclusion in Spare.
Svar said Harry's comments - about something "thousands of soldiers go through" - could be seen as "exploitative", but Cameron offered an explanation as to why they came out as they did.
He said: "What I think we need to remember is that perhaps Prince Harry - quite naively - would have given a lot of these facts to a ghost writer, because it was a ghost writer who wrote Prince Harry's memoir.
"He didn't write it. He would have given the facts. He probably naively said to the ghost writer: 'I killed, probably, 25 Taliban fighters'.
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Cameron and Svar described Harry's "chess pieces" remarks as "unfortunate"
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Svar said Harry's comments about killing 25 Taliban fighters could be seen as "exploitative"
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"We obviously don't know the exact details of what was given, but then the ghostwriter clearly knows how to sell a book, knows how to write a book and knows how to keep people engaged.
"He probably would have written the chess piece line or made it sound more sensationalist than Prince Harry told the ghost writer.
"But unfortunately, it's Prince Harry who signs off on this book - it's his name on on the cover.
"He's the one who's written it, even though he did have a ghost writer helping.
Tim Collins said the prince's remarks were "not how you behave in the army"
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"I think it's interesting that he's clearly given the go-ahead - and he also read the audio version of the book, the audiobook, so he clearly knew what was coming... And he let that happen."
When Spare was released, one ex-colonel, Tim Collins, came forward to lambast Harry's claim, saying it was "not how you behave in the army", adding: "We don't do notches on the rifle butt. We never did."
While another former British Army colonel, Richard Kemp, told the BBC that while he didn't have a problem with Harry's "25" reveal, he said it was unusual and noted it could give "propaganda to the enemy".
Col Kemp was right - also reacting to Harry's comments, senior Taliban leader Anas Haqqani said on social media: "Mr Harry! The ones you killed were not chess pieces, they were humans; they had families who were waiting for their return...
"I don't expect that the (International Criminal Court) will summon you or the human rights activists will condemn you, because they are deaf and blind for you," Haqqani fumed at the time.