Posted on 01/12/2005 5:54:55 PM PST by wagglebee
Prince Harry has apologised after being pictured on the front page of The Sun in a Nazi uniform which he wore to a fancy dress party.
The newspaper showed the Prince, with a cigarette and drink in hand, wearing a swastika armband.
The 20-year-old said: "I am very sorry if I caused any offence or embarrassment to anyone."
In a statement released by Buckingham Palace, he added: "It was a poor choice of costume and I apologise."
On Harry's shirt collar was the badge of Wehrmacht - the German defence force.
The Prince was at a fancy dress party in West Littleton, Wiltshire last Saturday for the 22nd birthday party of his friend Harry Meade.
The 250-guest party had a native and colonial theme.
Prince William was reportedly present dressed in lion and leopard skin print top and tight black leggings.
Doug Henderson, Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North and a former armed forces minister, said Prince Harry should not now be allowed to become a British Army officer.
"After the revelations this evening I don't think this young man is suitable for Sandhurst," he said.
The Sun said Harry's outfit of beige shirt and trousers and Nazi insignia which was the "talk of party guests".
However, Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, a spokesman for the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain, said the incident should not be blown out of proportion
"The fact that the palace has issued an apology indicates that this was a mistake by the Prince," he said
"But having being given, the apology should now be accepted."
A spokesman for the Board Of Deputies Of British Jews said: "The board is pleased that he's apologised for the incident.
"It was clearly in bad taste, especially in the run up to holocaust memorial day on the 27th of this month, which the Royal Family will be taking a leading role in commemorating."
It is the latest in a long catalogue of unsavoury incidents involving the Prince. Last year he was pictured attacking a photographer outside a nightclub. There were also accusations that he cheated in exams to get into Sandhurst.
Revelations about Harry's use of soft drugs, alcohol and cigarettes have also hit the headlines.
Tourists are money.
"So remember kids, dressing up like Hitler in school, isn't cool."
Well, given that "Prince William was reportedly present dressed in lion and leopard skin print top and tight black leggings," your analysis certainly would be a relief to his father!
>>Tourists are money.
God Save the Queen
'Cause tourists are money
And our figurehead
Is not what she seems--Sex Pistols
Who cares? He's a wild kid, with rights and no responsibilities. The Brits need to take their noses out of the air and realize no offense was meant by it. I saw a guy on Halloween with a bin Laden costume on. So what?
Harry? After all, a few thousand Brits
died at the hands of the Nazis''
More than a few thousand Americans died at the hands of bin Laden, but dressing up as him or a terrorist is no big deal, and nothing is meant by it. The commies killed more folks than the Nazis, and their are a bunch of communists sitting in the UN and Tony Blair kisses their bottoms. Shouldn't that be the big deal? WW2 is over, has been for over a half a century. Get over it, people.
Correct me if I am wrong, but one poster said the family was going back to it's racist roots, and you agreed, mentioning they are "German." I am half German, and because of German-hatred, my Mennonite ancestors were imprisoned during WW2. You are probably part German too, as are most Americans, and most western Europeans. I suppose "slavery" is in the "American" blood.
What kind of comment was that and why did you make it? "Racism" is in everyone's blood, honey, and every people have engaged in it. Your racism shines through clearly in the post I replied to. Does this kind of racism run in your family? Did your family ever own slaves? Have you done your family research, all lines? If not, you should be implying deriogatory things of people who are of German or western European (which is also heavily Germanic) ancestry. If you feel your people are innocent of all wrongdoing in the course of history, please do post your ethnicity here and I'll do my best to find a way to tar YOU as a genetic racist.
well, in fairness, most English ARE of Germanic roots (the English were classified with the other Germanic nations by the Church during the middle ages (until Agincourt I think)
Plus there were Lord Haw-Haw and Sir Edward Mosley, and the Mitford sisters.
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