"The most dangerous lie" .. Prince Harry attacks the press after criticizing him

Prince Harry on Wednesday slammed the "damaging" response to his record-selling memoir, saying he was deeply offended by the "lie" that he had bragged about killing 25 people in Afghanistan as a military helicopter pilot.

In his memoirs "Spear", King Charles's youngest son looks back on his two stints in Afghanistan, first as air traffic controller in 2007/08 and second in 2012 when he was a co-pilot on Apache attack helicopters, and how many people he killed.

British newspapers, which Harry criticized harshly in his memoirs, and former British soldiers attacked his decision to announce the number of those he killed, saying that this might expose him and others to the risk of retaliation.

Speaking to US interviewer Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show", he said the press had taken his revelations out of context.

He added: "Without a doubt, the most dangerous lie they told is that I somehow bragged about the number of people I killed in Afghanistan."

On Tuesday, the publisher of Harry's memoir said it had become Britain's fastest-selling non-fiction book of all time.

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