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Dean Stott told People that both had similar life experiences and funneled their troubled teenage years into successful military experiences. Both saw action in Afghanistan.
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Stott was invited to Harry’s wedding to Meghan Markle and like the Markle’s has now relocated to California with his wife Alana, 38, and their kids Mollie, 9, and Tommy, 4.
Stott met Harry in August 2007 in North Yorkshire, England. There they were enrolled in a Forward Air Controllers’ course and Harry was known as Second Lieutenant Wales.
Early on Harry asked a question and Stott recalls, “I sort of made a jokey comment, much to the dismay of the rest of the staff. The sergeant major said, ‘You two are partnered up for the six weeks.'” Royal Family News: Dean Stott Made a Joke About Harry “I never saw Harry as a member of the royal family but as a soldier and officer,” Stott says. “I really got to see the Harry people haven’t seen. That’s how we bonded.” In the military Stott achieved great heights, going from soldier to paratrooper to the elite Special Boat Service which is the U.K.’s version of the Navy SEALS.
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He was medically discharged after a freak parachute accident in April 2010.
He says, “My leg got caught in a line above my head. I was trying to kick my leg free before the parachute opened and I couldn’t. So, the parachute pulled my leg up over my head and to my right.”
The result was badly torn ligaments and muscles.
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“We had an MRI scan the next day, my friends flew off to Afghanistan and I had to pick up my whole rehab process,” he says.
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His wife Alana said, “Unfortunately, they lost one of the guys in that [tour of Afghanistan] and I think Dean, it was almost like, ‘If I’d been there’ thought in his head. So that was when I started to see that almost that anger coming out of him — he was feeling guilty and resentful and he knew his [military] career was coming to an end.”
He channeled his energy into an epic goal: breaking the record for the 14,000-mile bike ride along the Pan-American Highway from the bottom of Argentina to Alaska in 2018.
Along the way, Harry texted motivational messages. Today Stott can proudly say that he obliterated the previous record by 17 days! He made it in 99 days and 12 hours, although since then the record has been broken.
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The story is pure PR spin from the Markle's camp. They own People and the only positive reporting on them is in People.