- Prince Harry is reconsidering his decision to leave the Army.
- Harry says the feeling was difficult to explain to the public.
- Prince Harry was concerned about his future.
Prince Harry is reconsidering his 2015 decision to leave the British Army.
In his biography ‘Spare,’ the Duke of Sussex discusses how he grappled with telling his followers about his decision.
He writes: “I informed the Palace that I’d be leaving the Army. Elf and I worked on the public announcement; it was hard to get the wording just right, to explain it to the public, maybe because I was having trouble explaining it to myself. In hindsight I see that it was a hard decision to explain because it wasn’t a decision at all. It was just time.”
However, the father-of-two recalls being concerned about his future.
He continues: “But time for what, exactly, besides leaving the Army? From now on I’d be something I’d never been: a full-time royal. How would I even do that? And was that what I wanted to be? In a lifetime of existential crises, this was a bugger. Who are you when you can no longer be the thing you’ve always been, the thing you’ve trained to be? Then one day I thought I glimpsed the answer.”
