LONDON, Jan. 13 -- Britain's Prince Harry apologized on Thursday after he wore a Nazi uniform to a costume party two weeks before Queen Elizabeth is due to lead the country's Holocaust memorial events. Posted on 01/13/2005 10:15:29 AM PST by crushelits
In the latest of a string of gaffes, Harry, 20, wore a red-and-black swastika armband and an army shirt with Nazi regalia at the party at a friend's house Saturday. The incident will heap more embarrassment on the royal family and Harry, third in line to the British throne and due to train at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst this year.
Queen Elizabeth is due to host a reception for Holocaust survivors Jan. 27 before representing the nation at the Holocaust Memorial Day National Event.
"I am very sorry if I have caused any offense," Harry, youngest son of the late Princess Diana and heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles, said in a statement. "It was a poor choice of costume and I apologize."
A picture of Harry in his Nazi outfit was taken at the private house party of Olympic horseman Richard Meade and published on the front page of the Sun newspaper under the headlines "Hitler Youth" and "Harry the Nazi."
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Where were his handlers I wonder? I'm amazed he has the stupidity to do something like that. He must have been on some drug.
Britain needs to tell the House of Windsor to get real jobs.
Isn't that Dr. Johnny Fever from WKRP radio reading the paper?
This guy goes nowhere without 'servants' really got to wonder about his handlers.
Harry needs to return to school and take History 101 and pay particular attention to WWII. What an idiot!
Oh, he's just taking after his great-great-uncle. I think it's actually pretty funny.
To tell the truth, I did stuff a lot more insensitive and pointless than this when I was twenty.
Of course, I wasn't someone who would expect to have a bus-load of photographers following me everywhere just waiting for a screwup.
Wouldn't a royal in his position have some sort of handler that should be keeping him from doing something idiotic like this?
Crazy Eddie?
"He must have been on some drug."
Yeah, like maybe booze ? He has been falling down drunk in public before. At one point his drinking was so bad that in an effort to scare him Charles sent him to observe( but did not send him as a patient) an alcohol rehab center. Clearly it didn't work.
Ole 'arry is a chip off the old block he is.
Jennifer?? Better watch out for the turkeys overhead .
Perhaps history isn't the princeling's strong suit. One might suspect he went to an American public school.
Yes, Edward VIII.
The genes from his real father must be kicking in. Not Charles, but that other guy {smirk}.
another downside to liberalism in my opinion. history isnt taught. the world is not a vicious place. what happened 50 years ago could never happen again...
Manfred Rommel is Harry's father?! LOL
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