Harry is a real disappointment to his late Grandfather:
https://fieldethos.com/prince-philip-hunter-outdoor-conservationist/PRINCE PHILIP: HUNTER, OUTDOOR CONSERVATIONIST
Prince Philip was the Duke of Edinburgh, a devoted husband of more than 70 years, the longest-serving British royal consort, and one of the world’s last great hunters. Often referred to as the “Trigger Happy Prince,” Philip was an avid hunter, shooter, and wildlife conservationist.
....Philip was often the target of animal activists who claimed his hunting negated his service to these groups. The Prince, always one to speak his mind (an example of this would be when he told a 13-year-old boy, “You’re too fat to be an astronaut.”), shot back that
hunting was conservation. At no point was the Prince’s actions on hunting called into question more than in 1961 when he ventured with his wife to India for a three-day hunt with the Maharajah and Maharanee of Jaipur and Prince Jagat-Singh. Philip took an 8 foot, 9-inch-long tiger during the trip in addition to a crocodile and six urials, a type of mountain sheep. Photos of the trip made the British Press and many claimed outrage.
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Closer to home, Philip regularly hunted Sandringham House, one of his residences and located in the parish of Sandringham, Norfolk, England. The 20,000-acre estate became one of the premier birds shoots in the country under Philip’s guidance and he even designed a special “gun bus” for use on the property that contained special compartments for guests’ guns built into the coachwork. The bus was especially useful during the Boxing Day shoot, when members of the royal family who spent the Christmas holidays at Sandringham House went out for driven pheasant.
Philip also liked to grouseshoot and deerstalk at his Balmoral Castle, a 50,000-acre estate in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He promoted hunting as the UK’s premier model for conservation and was very pro-shooting and pro-gun ownership. In 1996, amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shootings, Philip exclaimed, “If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?”
