Those who serve,or who have served, in the military, will sympathise with the comments about allegiance to our current (or previous) monarch. Some of those who haven't served will also understand but it appears that some will never get it.
Our Royal Family provide more income (directly & indirectly), to the Government than they receive in Civil List payments. The two young Princes earn their own wage and do their Royal duties on top, at all times being expected to keep a lid on any show of, naturally youthful, exuberance lest the gutter press discover them doing what we all did at their age - enjoy ourselves, from time to time.
That they wish to serve on the front-line, despite the reluctance of the top brass to see them as bullet magnets, is commendable - most of us "lucky" enough to actually get involved in combat, as young men, regarded it as the culmination of our training and our raison d'etre - we were proud to serve Queen & Country and spent the time trying to do our best, not let our colleagues down and concentrating on getting home alive . . . as any other thoughts were not worth contemplating.
I would have thought that flying an Apache would be a "safer" sort of bullet magnet than driving a "snatch" landrover - at least you can spit back!!
Interesting that the Times today reported a significant increase in public support for our military, as well as a more recruits in all three services. It's possible that the Princes have helped the military image, who knows? Whether we think the Forces are fighting for the right cause, or in the right countries, is irrelevant - they, like all of us who bother to vote, are doing what their democratically elected government are asking them to do . . . although I'd like to wager that they'll quote the Queen long before they mention the man currently residing in No10!!
(Edited for typo)