Prince Harry's father and brother were in Oxfordshire today to meet him on his return from the front line in Afghanistan.

Prince Charles and Prince William arrived at RAF Brize Norton to greet the 23-year-old Household cavalry officer as he touched down at about 11.30am today.

Prince Harry, who has been secretly fighting the Taliban in Helmand Province, arrived on a Tristar troop transport plane after an emergency extraction ordered by the Chief of Defence Staff.

The exit, a major blow for Prince Harry, came after a news blackout deal broke down Thursday evening following leaks about his deployment on foreign websites.

Prince Harry was picked up at a grid reference in the desert, where he had been on manoeuvre with a squadron of tanks, and flown to a Nato base to join his flight home.