A very young Earl Spencer.
Posted on 01/13/2005 5:47:48 PM PST by veronica
So, Prince Harry, the nightmheir to the throne, has put his intellectually subnormal foot in it again. Prince William’s half-witted half-brother attended a fancy dress party held by Richard Meade, the triple Olympic gold medallist (1968 & 1972), and his fancy dress consisted of Rommel shirt with a bright red Nazi armband on the sleeve. Oh, and he had a fag on. A veritable tsunami of bad taste.
Harry has been drawing a lot of flack for this gaff. Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag, leader of spiritual leader of the Whitefield Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, described the photo of a swastika-adorned Prince as "a most unfortunate gift to neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers." Michael Howard, leader of the Conservative Party (a fringe British political group), who is himself Jewish, said "I think a lot of people will be disappointed to see that photograph and it will cause a lot of offense."
So far, not a single voice has been raised in support of the plonker's actions. However, we at the London News Review are staunch fans of Harry and are ready and willing to mount a clumsy defence:
Our defence of Prince Harry
1. Prince Harry is sensationally stupid. Seriously, the lad is practically retarded, so it’s appropriate to cut him some slack. It’s a small miracle every time he finds his mouth with his cigarette, so the fact that he would put on a Nazi armband and not think – at any point – that this might possibly be a really really wrong thing to do, is perfectly understandable. Questions must be asked of the people around him: his friends, his carers, his bodyguards. Did no one think to mention to the dribbling moron that maybe the pretty red armband with the funny black squiggle in the middle was maybe best left in the limo? Would you blame a coma victim for wetting the bed? No. So don’t be too harsh on Harry.
2. The theme of the fancy dress party, thrown by famous horseman and friend of Prince Charles, Richarde Meade, was – believe it or not – ‘Colonials and Natives’. Oh lordy. Colonials and Natives? What the **** are these people on? What century are they living in? Colonials and Natives? It beggars belief. Why not ‘Imperialists and Nig Nogs’? Or would that have been bad taste? So anyway, a fair share of the blame for Harry’s outfit must surely go to the imbecilic Richarde Meade and his appalling choice of party theme.*
3. Where did Harry get the armband? Presumably he went for advice to his grandfather, who delightedly threw open his closet doors to reveal rack upon rack of Gestapo jackets stormtrooper boots. Or maybe Prince Philip simply slipped off his dressing gown to reveal his own swastika armband, which he rolled off and pressed lovingly into Harry’s upturned palm. “Now off you go, you young scamp, and have fun.”
4. No one seems to have wondered: perhaps Prince Harry didn’t realize it was a fancy dress party? It’s possible he just came on from a meeting, and didn’t have time to change. In which case it is heartening to see that he has developed an interest in politics. An early brush with fascism didn’t do Ricky Tomlinson any harm, so let’s go easy on Harry: he may well grow out of it, and soften in his politics towards Stalinism instead.
5. Most crucially: this was a fancy dress costume. In this context, the Nazi uniform has become a novelty, a bit of fun. This is surely a good thing. It is wrong to be scared of it: if we let the taboo linger, if we draw an amazed breath when we see Harry sporting the emblem of the Nazi party, then the swastika still has its power. So much better for us to think of it as a daft (yet undeniably stylish) outfit in a fancy dress shop, hanging alongside a wizard’s garb, a policeman’s uniform and a fairy costume. To treat the swastika in this way is not in any way to deny the seriousness and horror of the holocaust, but to remove the last vestiges of power from the Nazis. Little does Harry realize it, but his wearing of the swastika is an important political statement: it is the militant trivialization and belittling of Nazism. Mel Brooks should think about finding a bit part for him in the Producers. I bet he throws a wonderful salute.
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*Prince William went in a skin-tight leopard costume with tail and claws: a cleverly diplomatic outfit, although one has to ask what the heir to the throne was doing attending a party which had the theme 'Colonials and Natives'. Might it not have been more politically astute to have feigned a headache, stayed at home and watched a DVD of Zulu Dawn instead?
I don't find it a big deal if it was in costume. it was over 6 decades ago. I don't get mad when people dress as Stalin, Mao, Napoleon, or Gangis Cahn.
YES! Thank you heaps!
Harry's ears are similar to the Earl's...and I'll add that the Earl's hair shows up red/ redder in a lot of his photos. No similarity in the noses, but Harry has Di's nose anyway. Wish I could turn up a photo of a much younger Earl and that we had one of Hewitt/ younger Hewitt from the same angle as Harry & the Earl.
But considering England is such a little old island, they're all probably related in more ways than they know, (or don't know) anyway. ;)
What graphics program did you use to modify the dancing nazi cockroach? Flash?
A very young Earl Spencer.
Gee, I can't imagine why all of the rumours abound! :-/
It is believable that Diana was self-centered enough to deliver a bogus spare to the throne - as a payback to the royals - without having any regard for the devastating effects on an innocent child.
Gotta love the image name: jameshewitt_cad.jpg
The swastika also appears as an architectual symbol in places all over the world -- including the Spanish Portugese Synagouge in New York (built in the 19th century). I've been there a few times, it freaks me out to see stain-glass swaskitas everywhere.
Notice how Harry's nose slopes inward, while the rest of the family's (including Diana's brother) are more of an outward protrusion.
I believe it was primarily British.
We flew in the day light which was much more dangerous.
Of course I could be totally wrong...
Harry looks just like one of Diana's sisters. He's not a Hewitt.
Maybe so, but he also looks exactly like Hewitt!
The result of inbreeding, and boredom. They are basically well-paid parasites.
I do feel a bit sorry for Harry at this point. What was he thinking?
Say again?
Looks like the Hewitt nose, ears and smile to me.
I heard a rumor your wife is a slut and none of your kids are your own. Mind if I come over to your house and draw some blood out of the little brats for DNA testing? We have to put scurrilous rumors to bed, dontcha know.
-ccm
Coventry was, and is, full of factories, especially car factories. It holds the same position in England that Detroit holds here. It was a legitimate military target, insofar as any industrial center is.
The mythos that surrounds Coventry is based on two things:
1. Churchill knew Coventry was to be bombed that night, because the cryptologists at Bletchley Park had broken the codes of the German Enigma machines. However, if he had moved a fighter wing there suddenly, or alerted the civil-defense authorities and evacuated the city, the Germans would have known the code was compromised. So he had to stand by in silence as the city was destroyed.
2. Coventry had many beautiful and historic buildings dating back hundreds of years, most of which were destroyed. The most famous was the 14th-century Coventry Cathedral. Its ruins have been preserved as a memorial, next to the new modernist Cathedral, which I find repellent.
-ccm
He takes after his mother.
LOL......Well done !
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