At the eleventh hour, military - and one suspects, political - chiefs arrived at the curious decision to stop his deployment. In some eyes this will be seen as caving-in to insurgent threats to kidnap or target the prince.
It seems curious, too, that the British military is admitting in effect that it cannot protect one of its own officers. Not that he would be easily recognisable in helmet and body armour, inside an armoured vehicle.
He genuinely seem to want to go. Had his swastikas packed and everything.
All I can say is that this move is symptomatic of Great Britain's further descent into terminal pussyassed status along the lines of the Euroweenies. Henry V and Harry's great-great uncle Lord Mountbatten must be spinning in their graves.
Maybe he could decommission and join a US outfit....where there's a will, so to speak.
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