RICHARD EDEN: Harry Should Return His Award to Someone Who Truly Values Service

When the Duke of Sussex delivered his first address after relinquishing royal duties in 2020 to carve out his own future overseas, he conveyed both sorrow and frustration that his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, had not allowed him to retain his military connections.

“We had hoped to continue serving the Queen, the Commonwealth, and my military affiliations, but without public funding,” he said to attendees at a charity event in West London. “Regrettably, that wasn’t possible.”

Friends of Prince Harry suggest he may have been further pained when his brother, Prince William, was named Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Air Corps by their father, King Charles, during a colorful ceremony at Middle Wallop, Hampshire, last month.

This location is particularly poignant for Harry, 39, as it is where he trained before serving with the Army Air Corps as a co-pilot in Apache helicopters in Afghanistan.

There was a period when the younger brother might have reasonably expected to be given the Army Air Corps position himself.