Prince Harry has been urged to decline a controversial award he is due to accept on Thursday as an expert warns he might be booed as he accepts it.
The Duke is set to receive the Pat Tillman Award for Service – named after an NFL-player turned army vet who tragically died in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan – for his work with the Invictus Games.
Royal commentator Michael Cole told GB News: “We know that Prince Harry did a great job in setting up the Invictus, meaning unconquered games after he’d seen the warrior games in America.
“We know that he served nobly and valiantly in Afghanistan as a commander of an Apache attack helicopter. Commendations are due there.
“We know that what’s gone on and in America, you know, the late Queen was held in high, high regard.
“A lot of people have been saying where is the service of Prince Harry? He’s turned against his commander-in-chief, his father.
“I would say that he should either politely decline the award because it is so controversial, or he should not accept it in person because we don’t want to see him being booed.”