Reply #14: Members of the Hanover and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha families [View All]

served admirably in the First and Second World Wars on the line. Prince Louis of Battenberg, later Louis Mountbatten was the son of King George V's first cousin. Kind Albert of Belgium served as field commander when the Germans invaded in 1914. King George VI almost had to be kidnapped by Churchill and Queen Mary to be kept from the beaches of Normandy...and Prince Rupert of the Rhine was Charles I nephew and main military commander of the Royalists during the English Civil War. Likewise the King and Crown Prince of Serbia led the Serbian troops across the mountains to evacuate to Corfu, fighting all way from there to Greece.
Harry is a military man by choice and oath, pure and simple. He has not a single word save the most private on his political views, the war is between Tony Blair and the Labour Government and Iraq, not the Mountbattens. His grandmother might be titular commander in chief, but she knows what war was like first hand, and rather than fleeing to the safety of Canada, her mother and father kept her and her sister in London.
The Mountbattens might not be much, but they aren't cowards.