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Prince Harry Says Sorry For Wearing Nazi Uniform

MegaWorks

MegaWorks

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CTV.ca News Staff

Prince Harry, the grandson of Queen Elizabeth, is apologizing after a tabloid picture showed him wearing a Nazi soldier's uniform at a fancy dress party.

A front page image of Thursday's early edition of "The Sun" was released to the media late Wednesday. Its headline reads: "Harry the Nazi."

The photo shows Harry clutching a cigarette and a drink, wearing beige slacks and a short-sleeved shirt with a swastika armband on the left sleeve. The newspaper says the 20-year-old prince was attending a fancy dress party in the uniform of a fascist soldier.

In a statement released by the Clarence House Press office, the prince said: "I am very sorry if I caused any offence or embarrassment to anyone -- it was a poor choice of costume and I apologize.''

Len Rudner of the Canadian Jewish Congress told CTV Newsnet he was astonished, said: "I am sure right now, [Prince Harry] is wishing that there was a hole somewhere in England large enough for him to crawl into.

"He's got to be asking himself, 'what possessed me to do this,' and frankly, I'm asking myself, what was this man thinking?"

Rudner pointed out that more than 350,000 members of the British Army were killed during the Second World War, and that 62,000 civilians lost their lives.

"As a member of the royal family, one would expect him to have a little bit of a memory when it comes to these things because when you are a Royal, you're expected to remember the history of your people," Rudner told CTV Newsnet.

Watching from Toronto, John Aimers of the Monarchist League of Canada says the young prince was right to say he's sorry, "but he has to show a lot of sensitivity in the coming years."

The worst of it, Aimers told CTV's Canada AM on Thursday, is that the inexplicable act only serves to remind subjects of some unsavory episodes from their royal family's history.

"It of course brings back memories of his great, great-uncle, the Duke of Windsor who was unfairly alleged to have pro-Nazi sympathies," Aimers said.

Reaction in the UK was swift and harsh. Doug Henderson, Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North and a former armed forces minister, said Wednesday that Prince Harry should not be allowed to become a British Army officer.

Harry is due to train at the elite Royal Military Academy Sandhurst this year. He was expected to attend this month but has been delayed until the spring because of a knee injury.

"After the revelations this evening, I don't think this young man is suitable for Sandhurst," Henderson said. "If it was anyone else the application wouldn't be considered. It should be withdrawn immediately."

Rudner, however, was more forgiving.

"Military service is a way not only to demonstrate character but it's a way to build character as well," he said, "and [Harry] may very well need that."
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good to know that this guy is more qualified to become the head of state of several nations than anyone else but a couple of people
 
Originally posted by: BarneyFife
Who cares? It was just a costume at a party. I bet people dress up as Osama too.
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Who cares! Israel cares

Israel harshly criticized British Prince Harry after he was pictured wearing a Nazi soldier?s uniform, just two weeks before the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp.

"Harry the Nazi" said The Sun, Britain's top selling newspaper, beside its front-page photo of Prince Harry, 20, while wearing a uniform of the Afrika Korps and a swastika armband.

The photo was taken last weekend at a "native and colonial" fancy dress party which was also attended by Harry's brother Prince William, 22, who wore a "lion and leopard outfit", the Sun said.

The timing of the picture complicates the matter as it comes two weeks before the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Hitler's most notorious death camp in Poland in which a million Jews died.

Spokesmen for the royal family immediately issued a statement in which Prince Harry apologized. ?I am sorry if I cause any offence or embarrassment to anyone," said Harry, adding that "It was a poor choice of costume and I apologize."
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Originally posted by: CanOWorms
good to know that this guy is more qualified to become the head of state of several nations than anyone else but a couple of people
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What do you mean by that?
 
Originally posted by: MegaWorks
Originally posted by: CanOWorms
good to know that this guy is more qualified to become the head of state of several nations than anyone else but a couple of people
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What do you mean by that?
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The head of state of several nations such as the UK, Canada, Australia, etc. is the monarch. The monarch is chosen by heredity. This guy is what, 3rd in line to be king?
 
Originally posted by: MegaWorks
Originally posted by: CanOWorms
good to know that this guy is more qualified to become the head of state of several nations than anyone else but a couple of people
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What do you mean by that?
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He means that this child can become the head of state of your country while someone else who isn't as much of a moron cannot.
 
Originally posted by: CanOWorms
Originally posted by: MegaWorks
Originally posted by: CanOWorms
good to know that this guy is more qualified to become the head of state of several nations than anyone else but a couple of people
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What do you mean by that?
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The head of state of several nations such as the UK, Canada, Australia, etc. is the monarch. The monarch is chosen by heredity. This guy is what, 3rd in line to be king?
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And they don't have any power either.
 
Originally posted by: ntdz
Originally posted by: CanOWorms
Originally posted by: MegaWorks
Originally posted by: CanOWorms
good to know that this guy is more qualified to become the head of state of several nations than anyone else but a couple of people
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What do you mean by that?
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The head of state of several nations such as the UK, Canada, Australia, etc. is the monarch. The monarch is chosen by heredity. This guy is what, 3rd in line to be king?
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And they don't have any power either.
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Of course they don't. But it's still a government sanctioned position and this guy is more qualified than almost anyone else.
 
I don't care that he wore that uniform, and i don't believe for a second that he believes in Nazism in any way... but it is surprising that he didn't realize that some people might actually find it disturbing. You'd think somebody who grew up in the spotlight and had to always be 'on' would have realized this could have possibly have been a problem.
 
Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Originally posted by: MegaWorks
Originally posted by: CanOWorms
good to know that this guy is more qualified to become the head of state of several nations than anyone else but a couple of people
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What do you mean by that?
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He means that this child can become the head of state of your country while someone else who isn't as much of a moron cannot.
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He is smart enough to admit he made a mistake and apologize for it. That puts him ahead of the Dub.
 
Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Originally posted by: MegaWorks
Originally posted by: CanOWorms
good to know that this guy is more qualified to become the head of state of several nations than anyone else but a couple of people
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What do you mean by that?
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He means that this child can become the head of state of your country while someone else who isn't as much of a moron cannot.
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Just like here in the States.

 
Originally posted by: Dissipate
If I lived in Britain I would wonder why taxpayers have to support that pr!ck.
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Some people say that they bring in a lot of tourism dollars. Of course, I believe that even without them people would bring in tourism dollars.
 
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: BarneyFife
Originally posted by: Dissipate
If I lived in Britain I would wonder why taxpayers have to support that pr!ck.
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Tourism.
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Non-sequitur. If he brings in tourism (which I doubt), let the tourism industry support him.
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Yeah I don't really know that the royal family is a 'net benefit'. If they were as big a factor as beaches in the Asian Pacific, I could see treating them as a sort of 'public good' with a net benefit to the entire society. As it is, I think they're mostly propped up and payed for by a sense of tradition that is getting a little old, and remarkably expensive.
 
Thank goodness the massachusetts liberals cut this crap out in America. 😉 In other words, thank goodness for protestors.
 
Looks like an Australian politician is withdrawing his allegiance to the Queen. Hopefully this will spready around Australia and then onto Canada, UK, etc.

Australia Minister to Cut Ties to Queen
January 16, 2005, 12:12 AM EST

BRISBANE, Australia -- An Australian politician whose father was held in a German labor camp during World War II said Saturday that he plans to withdraw his allegiance to Britain's queen -- the nation's formal head of state -- after seeing a photo of Prince Harry wearing a swastika armband.

Henry Palaszczuk, the primary industries minister for northern Queensland state, said he will seek to withdraw his allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II -- part of his oath of office -- at the start of parliamentary proceedings on Monday.

Palaszczuk said he wants to replace his oath of allegiance with an affirmation that mentions the Queen but does not swear allegiance to her. Queensland politicians can choose to declare either the oath or the affirmation.

Palaszczuk, whose Polish father was imprisoned in a German labor camp during World War II, said he had previously held the royal family in high regard.

"I was probably one of the few who held the Royal family in any regard and one of the few politicians who chose the oath of allegiance rather than the affirmation," he said.

The picture of the 20-year-old prince in a Nazi uniform was snapped by a guest at a costume party last Saturday and it was widely published in newspapers this week.

Harry, who is third in line for the throne, apologized Wednesday, saying it was a "poor choice of costume," but Jewish groups and others were outraged.

Palaszczuk said he was troubled to see the prince apparently making light of the Nazi symbol.

"My father suffered enormously at the hands of the Nazis and the stories he told me were horrific," he said. "So to see that image was very upsetting."

Palaszczuk also rejected Prince Harry's apology, saying it did not go far enough.

"I don't think that counts as a real apology," he said. "It wasn't an apology from the heart. It was just the royal spin doctors going into damage control."
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Originally posted by: Schrodinger
Originally posted by: Infohawk
On why aristocracy is bad and why we need a thievery tax.
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fixed for ya 😉
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It looks like you don't agree with the founding fathers on aristocracy then... that was one of their reasons for wanting an inheritance tax.
 
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