It looks like Prince Harry took the advice to leave the Nazi outfit at home a little too literally.
Not to worry, The House of Windsor is no stranger to controversy and has become pretty used fire fighting royal fuck ups. Harry is not the first royal to hit the front pages for the wrong reasons and nor will he be the last.
Harry though has a bit of a reputation. In 2002 Harry was found to have smoked cannabis. In 2004 Harry had a fist fight (well got hit) by some paparazzi outside a London nightclub. In 2005 there was Harry’s now notorious Nazi fancy dress. In 2007 Harry fell into a gutter after telling reporters to “fuck off”. In 2009 Harry was caught on camera calling a fellow soldier his “little Paki friend”. As I say, a bit of reputation.
And then there was Harry being photographed naked in a hotel room in Las Vegas – want to see it again? Click here.
Should we be worried though about Harry’s ‘antics’? No, of course we should not be worried.
He has been caught smoking cannabis, drinking too much and using sloppy and offensive language. If we used these criteria to condemn people then there wouldn’t be many of us walking free. I for one would fall down on at least two of these charges.
Is his behavior acceptable? No. But it is no worse than what occurs in bedrooms up and down the country.
Whatever you do though, please don’t mistake this post as evidence that I am a royal apologist. I am far from it.
Indeed, when we look at Harry’s list of controversies, we can see they pale into insignificance compared to some of his extended family.
Remember the Duchess of York offering to sell access to Prince Andrew who was the UK’s special representative for international trade and investment for £500,000? Not exactly the behavior one would expect from one’s royalty.
Then of course Prince Andrew himself was never far from controversy. His list of friends leaves some room for questioning his royal judgement. Prince Andrew has met with alleged war criminal Saif Gaddafi, the son of the disposed Tunisian dictator Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Sakher el-Materi and last but not least, the son-in-law of Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev, Timur Kulibayev.
Not people on my Christmas card list.
This is without mentioning his “billionaire pedophile” mate Jeffrey Epstein.
Then of course we have the Duke of Edinburgh himself. Until recently, it was rarely mentioned that all of his brother in-laws were Nazi officials and three of his sisters Sophie, Cecile and Margarita were members of the party. The Duke of Edinburgh was quoted describing his family relations to the Nazi as saying “[there was] a lot of enthusiasm for the Nazis at the time, the economy was good, we were anti-Communist and who knew what was going to happen to the regime?”
Yes, who knew…I mean the setting up of concentration camps in 1933 couldn’t possibly have offered a hint to the type of regime the Nazis were running.
In the grand scheme of things, I feel inclined to forgive and forget Harry’s relatively minor mistakes.
He might dress like a Nazi, but at least (as far as I know) he’s not actually a Nazi. He might splash away £5,000 a night on a Las Vegas hotel but at least he’s not making money by selling access to his family. He might like to hang with the rich and famous but at least they’re not wanted war criminals.
Am I worried about Harry getting his winky out? No. Am I worried though about the Royal family as our supposed representatives (I never voted for them) relaxing with some of the most deplorable elites in the world? Yes.
Let’s try and keep things in perspective…
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Usually the press only print salacious pictures of nude/ semi-nude beautiful women to titillate the male viewers; at least,now the women readers have a treat. Harry’s young, good-looking, fun- loving, smart, charitable, cares deeply for others, adores his mom and shows it, visits people in parts of the world that others have long forgotten…..and is loved in return. Unfortunately, the press has chosen to denigrate Harry in order to make a buck. Fortunately, thousands upon thousands of readers will see the press for what they are…..jealous old men out to make a fast buck on a young guy with no thought to the concept of ‘principles’. You go, Harry!
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I think the most deplorable act of all is to photograph someone naked and publish the photo on the tinternet. But this doesn’t seem to register with the press…
As for “I didn’t vote for them”, you know as well as I do that the Royals have no real power nowadays, except as symbols – and, aside from the sorry examples above, I would say positive ones. I didn’t vote for TX4s, the Union Flag or Glastonbury either, but I’m happy they exist.
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Power doesn’t come into it for me, anyway. The land, the money, the privilege all handed down in succession with the rest of the idiots lapping up the royal experience however, what a ridiculous institution… At least Glastonbury doesn’t assume and encourage others to assume that it is somehow more important than all the other stone circles in the country by birthright. Damn royals.
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