Prince Harry’s proud legacy over military veterans – The Yorkshire Post says

After all, it is the Duke of Sussex – along with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge – who has become the foremost champion of wounded warriors. Whatever the rights and wrongs of his decision to relocate to North America – Royal rifts were clear to see at the Commonwealth Day service earlier this week – veterans will always be in the Duke’s debt.

The reason is this. In the aftermath of the first Gulf War nearly three decades ago, campaigners – like the Hull-based National Gulf Veterans and Families Association – struggled to be taken seriously as soldiers returned home with myriad mystery illnesses. It was the same after UK and USA forces led the invasion of Iraq in 2003 to overthrow Saddam Hussein – veterans with appalling physical and mental scars of battle were effectively left to fight their own battles for help.

And it was only as the number of casualties in Afghanistan grew that the Duke of Sussex used his status – and experiences as a soldier who served on the frontline – to convert the plight of veterans into a mainstream political issue through his campaign work and advent of the Invictus Games. As Dan Jarvis, the Mayor of Sheffield City Region, recounts his own experiences, and family loss, in his hauntingly evocative memoir Long Way Home, today’s summit will be a powerful reminder that many political battles still need to be fought, and won, before veterans can be assured of the support that should have been in place when they were first signed up to serve their country.