Front Line Harry

And war critics say that only the poor and underprivileged choose to serve in the Armed Forces?

Prince Harry gives an interview after embargo on news reports of his service in Afghanistan is lifted. Note the U.S. flag on his cap.

The Daily Mail has full coverage. Like most U.S. troops Prince Harry is loyal to his fellow soldiers and demanded to be permitted to go to combat along with them.

Your mother would be so proud: what Prince William told Harry when he went to fight the Taliban
The Daily Mail (U.K.)
28th February 2008

• 'This gives me my best chance to be normal ... All my wishes have come true,' says Harry
• Harry: 'William wrote to tell me our mother would be proud'
• Harry: 'I would never want to put someone else's life in danger by being a bullet magnet'
• Prince was told by the Queen he would go to war
• MoD praises British press for keeping Harry's deployment secret until foreign media leaked it

Not exactly a palace: Harry's living quarters.

Prince Harry sits with Lance Cpl of Horse Chris 'Dougie' Douglass atop a Spartan armoured vehicle in the Helmand province, Southern Afghanistan.

More photos at the Daily Mail.