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Prince Harry hit in face by camera
CNN ^ | October 21, 2004

Posted on 10/21/2004 2:41:00 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

LONDON, England -- Prince Harry was hit in the face by a camera during an overnight scuffle outside a nightclub that left a photographer with a cut lip.

The 20-year-old was leaving Pangaea in London's West End early Thursday when photographers attempted to take pictures of him.

A spokesman for Clarence House, the office of Harry's father Prince Charles, said the third in line to the throne was defending himself when the incident happened at around 3 a.m. (0200 GMT)

"Prince Harry was hit in the face by a camera as photographers crowded around him as....

"In pushing the camera away, it's understood that a photographer's lip was cut."

The photographer, Chris Uncle, gave a different version of events and claimed the prince "deliberately lashed out."

Uncle, 24, told London's Evening Standard newspaper that he reported the incident to police shortly afterwards and was considering whether to make a formal complaint.

"Prince Harry looked like he was inside the car and we were all still taking pictures. Then suddenly he burst out the car and lunged towards me as I was still taking pictures," said Uncle, who works for the Big Pictures agency said.

"He lashed out and then deliberately pushed my camera into my face. The base of the camera struck me and cut my bottom lip.

"At the same time he was repeatedly saying 'Why are you doing this? Why don't you just leave me alone?'"

Uncle said the prince's protection officers then pulled Harry off and pushed him back into the car.

Another photographer who was outside the club said the prince had no reason to react as he did.

"In this situation he wasn't under any threat. The photographer who he went for is the mildest-mannered photographer," the UK's Press Association quoted the photographer as saying.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: assault; media; photographers; photography; princeharry; royals
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To: j. earl carter
Can't they afford some secret service or some body guards?

I'm guessing that the body-guard (who would be Metropolitan Police) stood aside to watch the fun. The royals do their best not to be surrounded by security - after all they get this for their entire lives; indeed nobody at all over here has anything like what the President gets.
41 posted on 10/21/2004 4:15:39 AM PDT by tjwmason (Coerced and bribed window-dressing.)
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To: Bandaneira
ROFLOL!!!!! at:

"I might have to get in touch with the Burmese No-Can-Do Association President, his name is No-Win and he is on a visit from Rangoon at the moment, and see if we can employ John Edwards to sue these Dutch upstarts for breach of copyright. Clog-wearing cads !"

(Sorry for the delay.)

42 posted on 10/21/2004 4:16:37 AM PDT by bd476
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To: skinkinthegrass

Do you mean Ryu Tajitsu as taught by Grandmaster Shoto Tanemura? That would be fun. :)


43 posted on 10/21/2004 5:05:27 AM PDT by bd476
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Harry's a fool. He was recently caught cheating on an art exam, but nothing was done about it. He needs to get a grip and start behaving like his mother would have expected him to.


44 posted on 10/21/2004 5:37:14 AM PDT by Rainmist (Proud to be GenerationReagan !!!! I miss you Daddy ! 03/22/18 - 07/25/96)
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To: Rainmist

It's a shame.

Some accountability would have gone a long way toward making him a man.


45 posted on 10/21/2004 5:41:02 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I can't imagine anyone wanting their child growing up in a fish bowl like these kids do.... no way that doesn't warp the psyche.


46 posted on 10/21/2004 5:42:01 AM PDT by HamiltonJay ("You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.")
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To: Rainmist

You mean running around and having affairs and puking up her meals?

Sorry, but the mourning time is long over, their mother was far from a pillar of virtue.


47 posted on 10/21/2004 5:43:07 AM PDT by HamiltonJay ("You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I don't care if Harry's a prince or a pauper. Anyone who gives a lumpy lip to a paparazzi vulture or a presstitute who work in sweaty, agressive gangs is A-OK with me.

Two royal black eyes would be even better.....plus a good swift kick to the......but I don't want to go too far in this comment.

Leni

48 posted on 10/21/2004 5:45:32 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: MinuteGal

They smell blood in the water.


49 posted on 10/21/2004 5:49:41 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Prince Harry hit in face by camera

Why did the camera strike him in the first place? Was it having a bad film day?
50 posted on 10/21/2004 5:49:53 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (President Kerry - - there, scared ya didn't I?)
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To: reagan_fanatic

The SUV told it to do it.


51 posted on 10/21/2004 5:50:40 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Bandaneira

Yeah considering Harry's protectors are probably SAS instructors


52 posted on 10/21/2004 7:52:08 AM PDT by joesnuffy (America needs a 'Big Dog' on her porch not a easily frightened, whining, Surrender Poodle...)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Is number 13 the 'AntiChrist'....doodo do doo doodoo doo do (Twilight Zone music or just doo doo)

53 posted on 10/21/2004 7:55:37 AM PDT by joesnuffy (America needs a 'Big Dog' on her porch not a easily frightened, whining, Surrender Poodle...)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I have the following confessions to make-
I think Harry and William are gorgeous.
If I were 16 again, I would have their posters all over my bedroom.

I always liked Diana and still do; I felt some empathy, some sympathy, some envy and some- Dang! I wish I could wear that!

I still think Charles is a putz and Camilla is a horse.

Sue me.


54 posted on 10/21/2004 8:08:48 AM PDT by najida (There is nothing friendlier than a wet dog, except for maybe a 100 pound wet dog.)
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To: najida

That's why the British will never get rid of their royalty. It's what keeps tourists (and $$$) coming to England and people interested in their affairs.


55 posted on 10/21/2004 8:10:29 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The one interest my mother and I shared passionately was British history....all the way back to Egbert.

We would discuss the Battle of Hastings and the long bow, the lost Princes, the Tower of London , how Elizabeth I was the greatest 'king' that Britian had ever known, details of the beheading of MQS etc.

Right up to the Queen Mother and her behavior during the Battle of Britian.

You can't make up stories as good as these.


56 posted on 10/21/2004 8:22:01 AM PDT by najida (There is nothing friendlier than a wet dog, except for maybe a 100 pound wet dog.)
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To: najida

It is a rich history - and part of ours.


57 posted on 10/21/2004 8:23:28 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: HitmanNY

He looks like the type who wouldn't get into a bar fight until someone was already dazed, and then he'd throw a few punches at him to look like a tough guy.


58 posted on 10/21/2004 8:23:43 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (I'm fresh out of tags. I'll pick some up tomorrow.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

He sure doesn't look like he was lunging out of a car.

59 posted on 10/21/2004 8:26:23 AM PDT by Howlin (Bush has claimed two things which Democrats believe they own by right: the presidency & the future)
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To: Howlin

That sure looks like a smirk on that guy's face.


60 posted on 10/21/2004 8:27:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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