Oh dear, oh dear.

[Crazyhorse]

I see prince harry has been photographed wearing a swastika. Whatever next? Revelations of the duke and duchess of windsor meeting hitler?
It seems totally in the family character, to me.

[Indigo]

It was a fancy dress party.

It's the sort of thing 19 year old lads wear to fancy dress parties, isn't it?

On the one hand the media loves to criticise the Royal Family for being out of touch with "ordinary people" - and then when one of them has the temerity to BEHAVE like an ordinary people, they have a right old go at him.

It's not on.

[Val]

TRouble is it's the sort of thing young princes should show a bit more sense than to do, especially when great-uncle was pally enough with Herr H. to want to come back as his stooge once he'd wiped the rest of the tribe out. In any case he got it wrong; if he owes anybody an apology, it's Manfred Rommel since the Afrika Korps was his father's outfit and the Nazis 'suicided him' for making his opinion of the Fuehrer a bit too obvious. By all accounts a military clockwork but a German patriot fighting for his country who'd never have willingly disgraced the uniform with the Hakenkreuz. It's thanks to Hitler 'knowing better' than Erwin Rommel that D-Day worked.

[bspider]

Who cares? If an irrelevant upper-class tw*t wants to dress up as a member of the Afrika Korps (NOT as Hitler) for a fancy dress party it harms no-one, is not news, and should be ignored.

Boris.

[Indigo]

I take it you are not a monarchist then, Boris?

[bloom061604]

Well-known American commentator and curmudgeon Andy Rooney said most nations today find monarchies unnecessary, if not downright silly. His words, not mine. :)

—Bloom

[Val]

The papers and that moron Howe can stop making it sound like he'd been caught celebrating Hitler's birthday or something. It's news, he's a bit of a twit but it's not news worth dragging on. As for monarchies, I don't think it's a coicidence that the most liberal countries I can think of, in no particular order, are Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, with Belgium not far behind.

[aquarian]

Here, bloody here, chaps and chapesses. I wish we could leave the little shit alone and have some rather more consequential news....eg...where all the money we pay into that hellish beauracracy known as the EU goes, and so on. Leave the poor kid alone. So what he is more human than the rest of his family...Even a good German friend of mine found it comical how trhe press reacted.

Aquarian

[Indigo]

Is this, perhaps, the time to repeat that rather tasteless, but highly entertaining, joke about the late Princess of Wales introducing her children to an old friend, and saying:

"This one's Wills; and we're fairly certain that this one's Charles's"

[Val]

It puzzles most nations, especially the Germans, why the English have this obsession with Nazism at all. My guess is that it's rather sad. Europe got smashed to bits and had to rebuild, so everything started new, with Marshall Aid. England reckoned to just carr on as always and it had debts. But the Empire waved goodbye and even poor old Harold Wilson's late 60s 'white heat of tchnology' never really got the old place going again. So there's a kind of feeling that it might have beeen all downhill from 1945 and perverse pride in claiming to incapable of things Europeans have taken for granted for years, but at least there was 1945!

[bspider]

I take it you are not a monarchist then, Boris?
Not so's you'd notice, no....

;)

I'll now go and sharpen the blade on Mme Guillotine. Ladies, get your knitting ready. Oh, while we're at it, let's reform the calendar for no discernable reason.

Boris. (Citizen Boris?)

P.S. I guess I'm not much for most forms of government: but I'm with Winston on Democracy - it's the worst form of government we've tried apart from all the others!

[Crazyhorse]

Hmmmm. I dont see what the monarchy has to do with it, because if Charles is not Harry's father, then he is the offspring of two commoners and therefore has no right to the throne anyway, or about as much right as I have.

The problem with us British is that we have a national superiority complex that has been ingrained through centuries of....er...superiority. Therefore if we beat anyone in a war, we can never let them forget it, as it just confirms what we already know.

It can only be in the UK that, you can go to a party dressed in another nations military uniform, past or present, and call it 'fancy dress'.