January 14, 2005

  • British Boy Being a Royal Pain . . .

    What in the name of heaven could Prince Harry have been thinking???

    Everyone knows the event to which I'm referring, I expect . . . he
    thought it'd be a lark to dress up for a "natives and colonials" party
    in a rented Nazi uniform. 

    Naturally he was caught on film (hello?  Anybody home?),
    complete with drink and cigarette, with the resulting photo published
    in The Sun.  I must say I rather liked the description of
    Charles's (not mine, the Prince of Wales) reaction to his youngest
    son's idea of an amusing costume:  "incandescent with rage."

    Mercy Maud, doesn't that paint a picture? 

Comments (6)

  • That was beyond idiotic for anyone to do.

    Now remember a little history: Harry's great-grandpa was the wartime King would wouldn't leave London until it fell. His great-grandma was the queen who wouldn't leave the King's side, nor would she send her daughters -- one of whom is the Harry's still-living grandma, you know, QEII, away during the bombing.

    If I were HRH the PoW, that kid would be in the military (with orders to his superiors to cut him no slack) yesterday. And yeah, incandescent is a perfect description of how a father ought to look.

  • Harry's supposed to heading to Sandhurst, a military academy or some such.

    There's been protest that he is not fit to be in the military due to his lack of judgment, though that is a minority view.

    I daresay he's going to find it a bit of a rough go at Sandhurst now, don't you think? 

  • "There's been protest that he is not fit to be in the military due to his lack of judgment, though that is a minority view."

    That only matters if you're given responsibility, right? So don't give him any responsibility unless he earns it.

    There, that was easy, wasn't it?

    Don't know anything about Sandhurst, but maybe that's a good option. Frankly I was thinking of getting him enlisted as a grunt!

  • I've heard that Harry's not the brightest bulb in the royal chandelier, but he certainly has had the finest education available.  Did he never study WW II and the devastating impact it had on his own country?  Didn't he ever see pictures of his grandmother standing in the rubble of English streets after the bombs landed?   I know something that happened 60 years ago seems like ancient history to his generation, but hey ... people in his very own family saw it, suffered from it, and should have told him about it. 

  • Does the Winsor chandelier have any bright bulbs? 

    They all seem a bit dim to me.  ;^D

  • As I've pointed out elsewhere, the reason you don't notice royal prince #3, Edward, Duke of Kent, is that he's so busy minding his own business and living respectably that he doesn't have time to make it into the tabloids.

    So there's one good bulb, at least. You only hear about the bad ones.

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