英国国防部说，由于哈里王子被派往阿富汗打击塔利班分子前线的消息被披露，将立即把哈里王子从阿富汗召回。英国政府先前与英国主要媒体达成协议，媒体在哈里王子的驻防任务6月中旬结束之前不做任何报导。
但是这个星期，美国的一家网站打破新闻封锁，报导了23岁的王子、英国王位第三继承人服役的消息。报导说，自从去年12月中旬以来，哈里王子一直和他的战友在阿富汗南部动乱的赫尔曼德省作战。英军统帅理查德.达纳特说，哈里王子的行为堪称表率，这位年轻皇室成员和他的战斗小组的任何一位成员一样承担着同样的风险。
Britain’s Ministry of Defense says Prince Harry will be withdrawn from Afghanistan immediately now that his deployment on the front lines of the war with the Taliban has been revealed. The British government had reached an agreement with major media operating in Britain that they would not report the prince’s deployment until it was scheduled to end in mid-June.
But this week an American Web site broke the news blackout on the service of the 23-year-old prince, third in line to the throne, revealing that he has been fighting alongside his fellow troops in the lawless Helmand province in southern Afghanistan since mid-December. The head of the British army, General Richard Dannatt, says Prince Harry’s conduct has been exemplary, and that the young royal has run the same risks as everyone else in his battle group.