Harry hit the headlines recently after the broadcast of his revealing documentary, ‘Harry and Meghan: An African Journey’, where he explained how the couple were struggling in the limelight. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have attracted a great deal of interest ever since their high-profile wedding in May 2018, especially as Harry was a renowned bachelor prior to meeting the former actress. He also had a reputation for being a little hot-headed in his youth and back in his school days when he attended the prestigious Eton College, he found himself in a fight with a fellow pupil over a crush.

In Angela Levin’s 2018 biography, ‘Harry: Conversations with the Prince’, she revealed how Harry – second-in-line to the throne at the time – had once been so rattled by a peer that he lashed out.

She said: “Harry’s chronic anger meant he regularly got into fights and he was once photographed on crutches after kicking in a window following an argument with another pupil about a a girl they both fancied.”

In 2013, a former head teacher from Eton told writer Chris Hutchins: “We used to say that Harry was like a firecracker and when other pupils saw him coming, they used to pass a by now familiar warning – ‘don’t light the blue touch paper.’

“In other words, don’t give him the slightest excuse to vent his spleen.”

Ms Levin also claimed another Etonian said: “His protection officers were always in the background so everyone knew who he was. But if you judged him by his behaviour you’d never guess he was a senior royal.”

Apparently an early school report also dubbed his behaviour in football as “aggressive”, which Ms Levin said “was probably an outlet for his anger”.

The biographer also documented how Harry did not particularly enjoy Eton.

She claimed: “He struggled with the lessons from the start, and did not initially feel there were any other pupils on his wavelength.

“[So] he gravitated towards the other boys who were often in trouble and didn’t seem to care about getting on with schoolwork.”

Consequently, Harry appeared to believe “Eton was about having fun” and “played the fool” although he often went a “bit further than anyone else”, and quickly became the ringleader of his rebellious posse.

Ms Levin explained: “Looking back, Prince Harry accepted some responsibility for why Eton didn’t work for him. He told me with a smile that he chose to be ‘a bad boy’ while he was there.”

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Harry reportedly said: “It was some thing my mother encouraged. Be naughty, but don’t get caught.”

His mother Princess Diana would apparently smuggle sweets into his old school at Ludgrove, encouraging said “naughtiness”, while at Eton he would balance books on doors so it would fall on the teacher’s head when they came into the classroom.

His bad habits continued throughout his years at Eton, and culminated in him breaking the more school rules and going out drinking while still a pupil.

Ms Levin noted: “A couple of his drinking sessions ended up in fights and he was thrown out of the pub.”

However, Harry did come into his own after school, when he joined the military and trained as an army officer.

The biographer explained: “Harry had dreamt of being a real soldier in the British Army since he was two and now at least his chance had come.”

Although it was “initially touch and go” if the “instinctive rebel” would manage in such an environment, Harry thrived and showed great potential as a leader.

He appeared to enjoy how the military enabled him to feel “normal” and make some “very good friends” among the cadets.

He was initially determined to fight on the frontline and saw himself “spending thirty-five to forty years in the army”, but actually quit after two operational tours in Afghanistan and took on more senior royal duties instead.

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