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50 free Prince Harry trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Prince Harry has lived several lives in public: the grieving schoolboy walking behind his mother's coffin, the party-loving young royal, the army officer who served in Afghanistan, and the husband and father who gave up palace duties to start again in America. Few people of his generation have been watched so closely or argued about so much. This quiz covers the whole story. There are questions on his childhood and schooling, his military training and service, the Invictus Games and his other charity work, his wedding to Meghan Markle and their children, the decision to step back from royal life, and the interviews, documentary and memoir that followed. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you learn something even when you guess. It is pitched for royal watchers and casual fans alike: the opening questions are ones most people can get, and the later ones reward anyone who has followed the headlines closely.
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Q 01By which surname was Prince Harry known as an officer cadet and helicopter pilot in the British Army?
Wales
Wales was borrowed from his father's title at the time, Prince of Wales, so the royal trained and served as plain Harry Wales.
Q 02Which attack helicopter did Prince Harry fly as co-pilot gunner during his 2012 tour of Afghanistan?
Apache
Apache training took him to bases in California and Arizona, where he finished top of his class before deploying to Camp Bastion.
Q 03Which formal first name was Prince Harry given at his christening by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1984?
Henry
Henry is the name on the christening record, but family, friends and the public have called him Harry since he was a child.
Q 04Prince Harry's wife, Meghan Markle, spent seven seasons playing Rachel Zane in which American legal drama?
Suits
Suits kept Markle on screen from 2011 to 2018, and her final episode aired weeks before she married the prince.
Q 05Which talk-show host interviewed Prince Harry and Meghan for a CBS special broadcast in March 2021?
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey spoke to Meghan alone first; the prince then joined to say his father had stopped taking his calls and cut him off financially.
Q 06To which destination did Prince Harry trek with twelve injured servicemen and women in December 2013?
South Pole
The South Pole was the goal of a 200-mile Antarctic expedition by the charity Walking With The Wounded, which the prince joined after an unfinished Arctic trip in 2011.
Q 07Which name did Prince Harry and Meghan give their daughter, honouring a childhood nickname of Queen Elizabeth II?
Lilibet
Lilibet was what the Queen's family called her, and the girl's middle name, Diana, honours the prince's late mother.
Q 08In which American city was Prince Harry photographed at a 2012 hotel party, pictures later leaked by TMZ?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas hosted the holiday in August 2012; British papers held back at first, then The Sun printed the pictures three days after the leak.
Q 09Which one-word title did Prince Harry give his 2023 memoir, a record-breaking non-fiction bestseller?
Spare
Spare nods to the old saying that an aristocratic family needs an heir and a backup, casting the prince as the backup to his brother.
Q 10Which dukedom did Queen Elizabeth II confer on Prince Harry on the morning of his 2018 wedding?
Sussex
Sussex came with an earldom and a barony granted the same morning, and Meghan became a duchess when the couple married hours later.
Q 11Which boarding school did Prince Harry attend, breaking with his father's side of the family but following his brother?
Eton College
Eton College had also taught his maternal grandfather and uncle, whereas his father, grandfather and two uncles on the royal side all went to Gordonstoun.
Q 12At which military academy did Prince Harry train as an officer cadet before being commissioned in April 2006?
Sandhurst
Sandhurst took him four months late because of a left knee injury, and he left as a second lieutenant, a rank his cavalry regiment calls cornet.
Q 13Into which British Army regiment was Prince Harry commissioned in April 2006, months before Prince William followed him?
Blues and Royals
Q 21Which rock singer re-recorded his song Unbroken with Prince Harry and the Invictus Choir in 2020?
Jon Bon Jovi
Jon Bon Jovi released the new version in March 2020 with members of the choir on backing vocals, and the proceeds went to the Invictus Games Foundation.
Q 22In which church was Prince Harry both christened in 1984 and married in 2018?
St George's Chapel
St George's Chapel stands inside Windsor Castle, and three days before the 2018 ceremony the couple say they exchanged private vows in their garden.
Q 23Which Scottish earldom did Prince Harry receive alongside his dukedom and the Barony of Kilkeel in 2018?
Dumbarton
The Blues and Royals gave the prince command of a troop of 11 soldiers and four Scimitar reconnaissance vehicles, based at Windsor.
Q 14Why was Prince Harry withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2008, ten weeks into his first tour?
A media blackout was broken
A media blackout was broken by Bild and New Idea, and commanders feared the publicity would endanger the prince and the soldiers around him.
Q 15Prince Harry was the first British royal to serve in a war zone since which relative flew in the Falklands War?
His uncle Andrew
His uncle Andrew flew helicopters in that conflict; a generation later the prince spent ten weeks in Helmand Province as a joint terminal attack controller.
Q 16Prince Harry's Invictus Games for wounded service personnel take their name from a Latin word meaning what?
Unconquered
Unconquered was chosen to embody the fighting spirit of the wounded competitors, who came from 13 nations to London's Olympic Park for the first edition in 2014.
Q 17Which American event for wounded troops, seen in Colorado in 2013, inspired Prince Harry to found Invictus?
Warrior Games
The Warrior Games showed him how sport helps recovery, and with London's Olympic organisers on board his own version came together in ten months.
Q 18In which city, host of the 2017 Invictus Games, did Prince Harry and Meghan Markle first appear in public together?
Toronto
Toronto staged the event during Canada's 150th anniversary year, two months before the couple's engagement was announced.
Q 19Which Formula One world champion was named the first ambassador for Prince Harry's Invictus Games?
Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton later joined the prince to open the Silverstone Experience museum in March 2020, his final solo engagement as a senior royal.
Q 20Which American First Lady joined Prince Harry at Fort Belvoir to launch the Invictus Games in Orlando?
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama shared the launch with Second Lady Jill Biden, and the Florida event was the first edition held outside Britain.
Dumbarton was one of three titles the Queen granted on the morning of the wedding, so the prince became a duke, an earl and a baron at a stroke.
Q 24The centre diamond of the engagement ring Prince Harry gave Meghan Markle came from which African country?
Botswana
Botswana supplied the main stone, and the two smaller diamonds beside it came from the jewellery collection of the prince's mother, Diana.
Q 25Which royal home did Queen Elizabeth II give Prince Harry and Meghan after their 2018 wedding?
Frogmore Cottage
Frogmore Cottage was refurbished for £2.4 million from the Sovereign Grant, and the palace confirmed in 2023 that the couple had moved out.
Q 26Which first name did Prince Harry and Meghan give their son, born at London's Portland Hospital in May 2019?
Archie
Archie was announced two days after the birth, and landmarks including Niagara Falls and the London Eye were lit in colour to mark his arrival.
Q 27Which American filmmaker and actor is godfather to Prince Harry's daughter, christened in California in 2023?
Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry was named at a private christening at the family's home, conducted by the Episcopal bishop of Los Angeles.
Q 28In which California community did Prince Harry and Meghan buy a home in June 2020 on the former Riven Rock estate?
Montecito
Montecito became home after several months in Canada and the US, and the couple's daughter was born in Santa Barbara the following year.
Q 29Which streaming service released Harry & Meghan, the six-part 2022 documentary about Prince Harry and his wife?
Netflix
Netflix had signed the couple to a five-year deal in 2020, and the series drew 81.6 million viewing hours in its first four days.
Q 30Which audio company signed Prince Harry and Meghan to a podcast deal in 2020, then ended it in June 2023?
Spotify
Spotify released one holiday special from the couple and a single 12-episode season of Meghan's show Archetypes before dropping the deal.