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Britain's Prince Harry does a systems check in the cockpit of his Apache helicopter, November 2, 2012, at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan's Helmand Province/AFP

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Prince Harry ends Afghan tour, says killed Taliban

— ‘Too much army and not enough prince’ —

Harry served in the 130-strong 662 Squadron, 3 Regiment Army Air Corps.

He insisted that his life in Camp Bastion was “as normal as it’s going to get”, although the prince admitted he was frustrated by staring from fellow troops he had not previously met.

“I go into the cookhouse and everyone has a good old gawp, and that’s one thing that I dislike about being here,” he said.

Harry admitted he would rather be out on the ground again in a small patrol base with the Household Cavalry regiment.

In his previous stint in Afghanistan, before he trained as a pilot, he served 10 weeks in 2007-2008 coordinating air attacks on the Taliban, although the deployment had to be hastily cut short when a news blackout on his deployment was broken.

Of the major royal event in his absence – the announcement that his brother Prince William and wife Catherine are expecting a baby in July – Harry said he “can’t wait to be an uncle”.

William, who flies a Royal Air Force search and rescue helicopter in Wales, has been blocked from going to Afghanistan because it is considered too dangerous to send the second in line to the throne.

Harry said: “He’d love to be out here. And, to be honest with you, I don’t see why he couldn’t…. No one knows who’s in the cockpit.

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“Yes, you get shot at. But if the guys who are doing the same job as us are being shot at on the ground, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with us being shot at as well.”

Harry admitted he let the royal family down in August 2012 shortly before his deployment, when pictures emerged of him frolicking naked in Las Vegas during a game of strip billiards.

“I probably let myself down, I let my family down, I let other people down,” the prince said.

“But at the end of the day I was in a private area and there should be a certain amount of privacy that one should expect.

“It was probably a classic example of me probably being too much army and not enough prince.”

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