The controversial memoirs of Prince Harry They continue to make people talk more than 20 days after their worldwide publication. In the book, the Duke of Sussex recounts a dramatic episode about a “suicidal” military training flight, which was not true.
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Con The Mirror your instructor has spoken, Michael Booley, and has revealed that this story “is a complete fantasy.” “I’m in awe of this. Even in shock,” Booley says.
According to the husband of Meghan Markle“on one of our first flights together, without warning, Booley stalled the plane. I felt the left wing sink, and then, after several seconds that seemed like decades, he brought the plane back up and leveled the wings. I stared at him. ‘What the hell… Was it an aborted suicide attempt?’ ‘No,’ he said. It was the next stage of my training.”
But Michael denies that anything like this happened: “Although I am flattered by the book, I am afraid that the memory of the sorties and the lessons is inaccurate. It is important to emphasize that in the cockpit nothing is a surprise. In each sortie there is exhaustive information beforehand, every aspect. The only time there are surprises is later in the program, not as stated in the book. Engine failures are practiced before the first flight just, obviously, in case the student gets one.”
Although he does not agree with the “dramatization” in the autobiography of the brother of the Prince of Wales, the instructor is fond of him: He was an exceptional student, very talented. But I think that what counts about the air departures has been dramatized. I understand that it is the result of ghost writing.” JR Moehringer is the biographer behind the book of the grandson of Isabel II, Spare.