Prince Harry was commissioned as a cornet into the cavalry regiment of the British Army on his 18th birthday.
 The decision to place Harry at Eton went against the past practice of the Mountbatten-Windsors to send children to Gordonstoun, which Harry's grandfather, father, two uncles, and two cousins had attended
 On 19 December 2017, he succeeded his grandfather Prince Philip as the Captain General Royal Marines

