Officially, according to a St James’s Palace spokesperson, no doubt to quell the mounting public perception that he’s as “nutty” as his alleged father (or the more likely other one) Prince Harry is said to be “terribly sorry” for calling a brown-skinned colleague a “Paki.”
Perhaps not as sorry as he was when photographed dressed as a fully-paid-up Nazi SS member carrying Third Reich speeches and brass band marches on 12 CD’s to a party three years ago.
And then conveniently shortly after that revealed in a BBC exclusive “Harry meets Taliban” 1-hour documentary to be risking his life for Queen and country in Afghanistan unbeknownst to anyone. After being filmed and interviewed for weeks doing it.
Cynics in foreign-language newspapers surmised the documentary was released to take the heat off Harry’s Nazi tendencies. Through “Saving Private Harry” a hastily-passed law forbidding the British media from disseminating anything about him appearing first in foreign-language newspapers the British public never got to see this damning claim.
That’s the official story and the Royal Family is sticking to it.*
In truth the young prince who persistently refuses to submit to DNA tests to quell doubts about his lineage based on his physical appearance – especially his full head of curly red hair – seems not a whit repentant.
Caught yesterday enjoying himself on Baruba’s famed 3-mile long Sir Anthony Eden Beach by a Post photographer noticeably-white-skinned Harry seemed totally unconcerned by the “racist” tag spreading like wildfire worldwide about him.
With close friends and/or romantic interests, Greta van Susteren, daughter of either Agnetha Fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus or Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, or any combination, in any event the ABBA couple who divorced shortly after her birth but continued performing together and still remain best of friends and disgruntled David Bentley, Tottenham Hotspurs’ recent record signing from Blackburn Rovers unable to find a regular first team spot because he can’t kick with his left foot.
* This is not the first time someone has been forced to tug a forelock and grovel to apologise for a clumsy Prince Harry lapse of judgment.
His decision to attend a friend’s fancy dress birthday party wearing a swastika armband in 2005 caused widespread outrage.
Clarence House quickly issued a statement saying the young prince was sorry if he had caused any offence.
In recent years he has worked hard to shake off a reputation as a playboy prince earned from his regular appearances on the London nightclub scene.
In the past he gave his critics plenty of ammunition, from smoking cannabis as a teenager to a nightclub scuffle with a paparazzi photographer.
In the autumn of 2004, he was embroiled in controversy when his former Eton art teacher claimed she helped him cheat in his A-level.
Clarence House described the allegations by sacked tutor Sarah Forsyth as “incredibly unfair” and the exam board later said there was no evidence to support the claims.
Then, just a week later, the prince was pictured scuffling with a photographer outside the Pangaea nightclub in central London.
No criminal action resulted, but the paparazzi photographer’s cut lip and the pictures of an angry, red-faced Prince Harry further dented his image.
The public’s sympathy may have been with the hounded prince, but in royal circles it was simply not the done thing.
His trips abroad have also generated some problems.
In Argentina, during his double gap year after leaving Eton, there were reports of a plot to kidnap him.
In Australia, the ranch he was staying at was found and besieged by photographers, prompting close aide Mark Dyer to confront them, declaring the prince might flee the Commonwealth country if they did not leave him alone.
Prince Harry’s first serious negative publicity happened when, as a 17-year-old, he was involved in under-age drinking and taking cannabis.
The News of the World broke the story and told how the Prince of Wales had sent his youngest son on a visit to a rehabilitation clinic, Featherstone Lodge in south-east London, to highlight the long-term dangers of drug use.
Yet, Prince Charles’s spin doctor Mark Bolland admitted some time later that the visit to the centre had actually taken place several months before, prior to evidence of the drug-taking being uncovered by the press.
During his schooldays, Prince Harry was relatively sheltered from exposure to the media, partly thanks to the protection of his mother.
Through an informal agreement struck in the wake of her death, the media left Prince Harry and Prince William alone while they finished their education.
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