Prince Harry playing video games in Afghanistan (Picture: PA)

Prince Harry has claimed being good at video games and excelling on the sports field helped him to the top of his class as an Apache attack helicopter co-pilot gunner.

The prince, Captain Wales in the army, admits he has always found exams a ‘nightmare’, in a series of interviews conducted before his second tour of duty in Afghanistan ended.

In the interviews, which can only be reported on now after a media blackout was lifted, he claims flying came naturally for him from the beginning.

‘I don’t know, I’m one of those people, that during my flying course especially, I would be fine at flying,’ he said.




‘I probably should have done a lot more reading, but I was fine at flying.

‘And then every now and then a written test would come up, and I’d be absolutely useless and I’ve been like that from stage one of my youth.’

Prince Harry claims to be a Fifa pro (Picture: PA)

The 28-year-old prince was only permitted into Eton College in 1998 after repeating his final year at Ludgrove prep-school, while his GCSE results have never been published.

It was claimed his art teacher helped him cheat in his A-level coursework before being awarded a B grade, while he earned a D in geography.

‘Exams were always a nightmare, but anything like kicking a ball around or playing PlayStation – or flying – I do generally find a little bit easier than walking, sometimes,’ Harry said after rising through the ranks as a cadet at Eton and gaining a place at Sandhurst officer training college, which is rare for a non-graduate.

After 18 months of helicopter training in the UK and US, Harry received a prize as the best co-pilot gunner out of his 20 classmates.

‘It’s a joy for me because I’m one of those people who loves playing PlayStation and Xbox, so with my thumbs I like to think that I’m probably quite useful,’ he said.

‘You can ask the guys, I thrash them at Fifa the whole time.’