The prince has made a number of unique decisions.
Prince Harry’s journey in the Royal Family has been notably different from other members of The Firm. The prince has chosen a different path from the royals on a number of occasions and there’s one that dates back to decades ago.
Prince Harry did not follow in the footsteps of his older brother Prince William when it came to getting himself a university degree. Instead, Harry chose to join the army straight away. King Charles didn’t attempt to soften the blow of Prince Harry’s educational struggle. Prince William excelled in his studies, and performed well at Eton before heading off to university.
Prince Harry left the top school with a B in Art and D in Geography in his A-levels.
The then-teenage prince decided to join the army instead of pursuing university and he said he never once regretted it.
In Harry’s tell-all memoir Spare, he touched on how his father did not push him on to further education.
He wrote: “That was why he didn’t press me to go to university. He knew it wasn’t in my DNA. Not that I was anti-university, per se. In fact, the University of Bristol looked interesting.
“I’d pored over its literature, even considered a course in art history. (Lots of pretty girls took that subject.) But I just couldn’t picture myself spending years bent over a book.
“My Eton housemaster couldn’t either. He’d told me straight-out: You’re not the university type, Harry. Now Pa added his assent. It was no secret, he said gently, that I wasn’t the ‘family scholar’.”
Prince Harry went on to proudly serve in the military for 10 years after training at the prestigious Sandhurst.
He retired in 2015 following two tours of Afghanistan and years of training and working as an Apache helicopter pilot.
Harry eventually earned the position of Captain in the British Army, having chosen this branch of service over the Royal Navy — which other members of his family leaned toward.
Harry also admitted to killing revolutionaries in the country during his second tour, he said: “If there’s people trying to do bad stuff to our guys, then we’ll take them out of the game … Take a life to save a life … Everyone’s fired a certain amount,” reports The List.
Now, Prince Harry lives in the USA with his wife Meghan Markle and their two children.
