Prince William 'personally intervened' to get the family of an Afghan officer he knew from Sandhurst out of Kabul amid chaos at the airport, according to reports.
The Duke of Cambridge was said to have heard about a former cadet who was trying to get his family out as the Taliban seized the country.
The royal is reported to have asked his equerry, Naval officer Rob Dixon, to make calls on his behalf.
After those calls were made the officer, who is reported to have served with the Afghan National Army, managed to get his family on to a flight back to the UK.
It has been reported that his family escaped the country, who were a group of more than 10, made up of several women and children, all of whom were already eligible to leave the country.
According to the Telegraph the commissioning officers, special forces and soldiers from 2 Para, 16 Air Assault Brigade who began the evacuation operation, had been aware of the royal intervention.
Major Andrew Fox, an ex-paratrooper who served three tours in Afghanistan, was said to have praised the Duke’s actions and said he had heard numerous stories of officers smuggling people through the gates that they knew from Sandhurst.
He said: “I myself got 2 Para to rush out into the crowd and grab someone for me.
“It’s fully in line with what we get taught in the Army in terms of values, loyalty, respect for others, all that good stuff. We're trained to help where we can.
“The situation was so chaotic and was so, frankly, mismanaged, that people would do whatever they could to get out.”
General Sir Richard Barrons, former commander Joint Forces Command, was also reported to have said a number British veterans had flagged cases of Afghan friends and ex-comrades who were at risk from the Taliban during the evacuation.
It comes after Boris Johnson failed to explain how many people may have been left behind in Kabul in a rambling 251-word answer to journalists.
The Prime Minister was quizzed after his Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, admitted he did not know how many Brits or Afghans potentially eligible to be airlifted out were still in Afghanistan.
Mr Raab had said the number of UK nationals was “in the low to mid hundreds”.
And pressed on whether “thousands” of eligible Afghans had been left behind, Mr Raab replied: "I’m not confident with precision to give you a set number, but I am confident the Prime Minister is right that we’ve got the overwhelming majority out."
Mr Johnson was asked why he did not have a clearer idea of the number of people yet to be evacuated to the UK from Afghanistan, British nationals or other eligible people, and any advice to those people.
He replied that the UK did not know because it had already evacuated more people than it thought were eligible.
