King Charles decided to confer on the heir to the throne William the honorary rank of colonel of the Army Air Corps, which would have belonged to Harry, as the sovereign’s second son had served in that department during his second mission in Afghanistan as a pilot Apache war helicopters, if there had not been the traumatic separation of the rebel prince from the Royal Family in 2020 with the abandonment of his role as an active senior member of the dynasty and the subsequent move to the USA with his wife Meghan.
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The decision represents, according to the interpretation of the British tabloids, a second setback for the Duke of Sussex after yesterday’s, when one of his spokespersons announced that Harry, during the short visit to the United Kingdom to take part in the tenth anniversary of the Invictus Games he sponsored, he will not meet his father Charles III due to the monarch’s busy schedule. As stated in the statement released by Buckingham Palace, the sovereign has held the rank of “colonel-in-chief” of the Army Air Corps, corresponding to the role of patron of the military department, for the last 31 years.
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Both brothers are helicopter pilots, however in Harry’s case the connection with the Army Air Corps had been very strong, until he left the unit in 2014, a year before leaving active military service. All this can only rekindle hypotheses and speculation on the relationships within the royal family while today Harry is expected to participate in a function in St Paul’s Cathedral in London to celebrate the Invictus Games (the sports games reserved for disabled veterans), during which the duke, who arrived in the Kingdom yesterday afternoon, is engaged in a reading while the actor Damian Lewis recites a poem.