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The royal family’s MP has mocked Prince Harry’s military service and accused Prince Philip of being “unfaithful” to the Queen

Emma Dent Coad, who is the first Labour MP to represent Kensington and Chelsea, was speaking at an event where another Labour activist called for the Queen to be executed.

At the event on Monday organised by Labour For A Republic and titled “Reigning in the monarchy”, the MP Dent Coad, who was thrust into the spotlight following the Grenfell Tower fire, told activists “I am the royal family’s worst nightmare” and boasted that she had turned down an invitation to meet the Queen after she was elected.

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Ms Dent Coad suggested Prince Harry, who was deployed to Afghanistan twice, was too incompetent to play a proper role in the Army.

The MP said: “Harry can’t actually fly a helicopter... He tried to pass the helicopter exam about four times and he couldn’t get through it at all so he always goes for the co-pilot.

“So he just sits there going ‘vroom vroom’.”

The prince, who served in the Army for a decade and rose to the rank of Captain, was a qualified pilot of Apache helicopters and served as the gunner.

Ms Dent Coad said that Harry and William are “not very bright”, adding: “Just let them drift away, be playboys or whatever.”

She also ridiculed the 96-year-old Duke of Edinburgh and accused him of having affairs.

The MP said: “The Queen might want to step back when her (cough, cough) soulmate is gone.”

She added in an aside: “He’s been quite unfaithful for quite a few years.”

When one audience member asked how republicans should work to abolish the monarchy, another activist shouted out: “Guillotine!”

No other audience members shouted him down and Ms Dent Coad did not respond.

Labour MP John Woodcock, who chairs the party’s backbench defence committee, said her comments about Prince Harry’s military service were “highly inaccurate” and “in no way reflect the views of my party.”

He added: “Like everyone who puts themselves in harm’s way to keep us safe, his Royal Highness deserves nothing but praise and respect for his service in the armed forces.

“In addition to his tours of duty in Afghanistan, Prince Harry inspires so many by the way he champions injured, ill and wounded servicemen and women and veterans through the Invictus Games he founded. I am really sorry this has happened.”