Prince whatever his name is - Totally NB

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After a number of incidents demonstrating his inability to handle the booze, the man Harry now shows up at a party in a Nazi armband... and this just weeks before joining the army. Me thinks my tax money wasnt spent wisely on this guys education - Eton wasn't it?

Should we really carry on stumping up to support the lavish lifestlyes of persons of questionable, and clearly limite,d genetic stock?

This last incident really got my goat and I'd be intrigued to hear what the forum thinks.

Mark
 
in 1965 the most popular item at the Edinburgh theatrical costume hire (moss bros for luvvies) was hitler ... quite good it was to ...
 
we often hear Big Ears saying how superior he is as a result of 'centuries of breeding' yet any time i watch a history programme i am reminded that his ancestors got their positions by being the greediest and most rapacious bunch of thugs around.

by contrast with that a bit of stupidity by younger son is neither here nor there.
 
I'm sure it was, and probably great fun. I think people should lighten up and try to remember what fun it was to be young. Why should he have to go around being PC for everyone.

Is there anyone, I mean anyone, who hasn't done a John Cleese from time to time? Dressing up as a Nazi is a lampoon not a naffing British National Party endorsement.
 
I blame the BBC.

To many of Harry's generation the Swastika is probably viewed as part of the dress code of amusing characters on "Allo Allo". The incident does raise a question about the value for money of Eton school fees.

The most balanced opinions I have heard in the media have come from the Jewish community but this does not stop anti-monarchists from hitching a free ride.
 
Good point Mr Snowleopard!

But at what point did the rapacious thugs agree to the collective and trans-generational lobotomy?!
 
Oh will everyone stop "blaming" everyone else. It was in poor taste, and has evidently caused offence. But does it really matter that much in the grand scheme of things? He's only 19 ish?? He will make blunders. Let him get on with it.
 
Don't forget those of us paying harbour dues to the Duchy of Cornwall are contributing in fairly generous fashion to this twit and his offspring. Remember if you come into Dartmouth that half your mooring fee goes to them ! /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

Either the boy is totally insensitive (probable) or his dress reflects his politics and family origins ? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
If Eton can only get him 2 A levels in art and history (was it history?) it makes me wonder about the quality of the material they had to work with. Doesn't stop Sandhurst throwing their doors open to him though.
 
Strange how often this is considered irresistably hilarious and/or erotic. The late, and (in other respects) great, Keith Moon and Viv Stanshall once paraded around Golders Green in Nazi Uniforms and went into shops demanding goods in fake German accents. Kenny Everett once caused a storm because the dancers on his show did a routine in Nazi gear. No doubt, psycho-analysts would have something to say about it.

Prince Harry's behaviour is particularly insensitive in the context of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz but, given his Great Great Uncle's none- too covert admiration of Adolph and his merry men, perhaps not entirely suprising. What really worries me, however, is that I don't think he has the faintest idea how offensive his behaviour appears to others, presumably because he has no understanding of the reality of what the Nazis did.

I feel sorry for Harry, because his childhood years haven't been brilliant, for obvious reasons, but he appears to have evolved into the worst kind of charmless, brainless Hooray Henry. That's his right; but why should we have to pay for it?

Oooh; now you've started me off!
 
The guy is young and just out for a night's fun, however, one of the costs that come with the many privileges that he and his family enjoy, is the requirement to be circumspect in one's public conduct.

Yes we've all done it, along with many other ironic pranks of dubious taste, but, as a public figure, he should have been groomed to avoid such ingenuousness.
 
After all, we forumites have never, ever done anything in bad taste in our entire lives, even as youngsters and certainly not since.

He's just a been a prat which makes him no different from a goodly percentage of his age group and to imagine it has any bearing on a future in the army is laughable.

Offensive? Yes. Important on any rational scale of events? NO.
 
As a child in south africa I used to play with a friend. We used to make fake Nazi uniforms and draw swastica's on our arms with felt tip pens and run around tossing natzi salutes.

The attraction was the flashy colours and millitary might.

At the same time I had jewish friends that were in no way different in my mind to my roman catholic or protestant friends.

I also got totally wasted on booze, even as far as throwing up.

Now I have grown up (I hope) and will control my drinking (only because I do not like the feeling of beeing totally blathered, and because I now suffer from nasty headaches). I will not run around tossing natzi salutes either...

Come on - have you never been drunk? I don't believe you if you say never.

He is just a bleeding kid for goodness sake.

This PC ness really gets up my nose. It is a fancy dress dammit. Do we go around persecuting all the kids wearing Bin Laden masks at halloween?

<<rant over>>

Lovely day for the sun to shine :-) (Stingo?)

Cheers
Charles
 
when brenda flew in from africa (in 1953?) for her coronation, there was big ears being restrained by palace officials from running to his mum and his mum shook his hand fer gawds sakes ... such behaviour created the dysfunctional family they are.

it's a fine line he treads but hopefully is an improvement on his father ....
 
Of course you're right, and I'm sure he enjoys the money and the privilege, and these things are hard to give up. But which of us, given the choice, would choose his life. Certainly not I.

The only thing he has that I would want is my youth again.
 
The celeb life has never appealed, far too much baggage comes with it. BBC "paparazzi" doc, last night, confirmed that.

I know it's sad, but I'm not sure that I would like to be that young again. Ageing has its own pleasures and, as rejuvenation is not a practical proposition, it seems a whole lot better than the alternative.
 
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