Should Prince Harry apologise?

[DillyDally]

or not? Discuss

Angeliz - fortunately those SS members who have no remorse are dying out due to old age... in a way I can understand why certain SS members did what they did, for fear of persecution though that's another issue. However, I find young people who follow this 'believe' extremely offensive and they have absolutely 'no excuse'... not that there ever was... oh I don't know how exactly how to phrase this.

Awful, when the interviewer asked him,
"but these were innocent women and children ,(who were forced to strip and be shot to fall into ready made pits), did you feel nothing?"
He replied, "no, they were jews"

you are joking angeliz. someone should educate him on the holocaust.

in a recent poll of teenagers, most thought the holocaust memorial day was a jewish holiday!

bloody hell, that just shows how important it is that documentaries like the one on auschwitz are shown

i was reading the paper at the weekend (think it was the sunday times mag) and a woman was interviewed who had been pg in a concentration camp. she described herself as a 'pregnant skeleton'. she say the only reason she survived was the train broke down or something (one she was travelling on while being moved to another camp) and they were ordered off. a farmer saw she was in labour and gave her a cup of milk.

so sad made me cry. how brave was she?

sorry to hijack

Not hijacking at all nailpolish
I am embarrassed to say I started watching the doc but found it far too haunting to watch til the end..I think it was because I was on my own and I find some of the images too disturbing just before sleeping..I should force myself.felt in a similar way when i visited the Imperial museum of war exhibition.

IMO I think the tabloids could be spending their reporters wages on far more pressing issues like the millions around the world without a bed to sleep in or medicine to help them get better. Yes Harry was in bad taste. Yes the Nazi regime was awful and the mass murders they committed unforgivable but what about the mass murders that are happening now in Rwanda for example? Why cant these tabloids take some responsibilty of their reporting and actually report on things that make a diffence..? Just a thought.

I personally think he should only make an apology if he thinks he really has done something wrong. I think it was in terrible taste, terrible timing and something I would never dream of doing, but he's a kid and kids do this provocative stuff all the time. Granted, he's a millionaire and third in line to the throne which obligates him NOT to do this stuff, but what's the point in him saying sorry for something he's not sorry for, which I doubt he will be after doing it in the first place?

The party that was gatecrashed not so long ago by that bloke Barshak had a similar theme didn't it? Lots of stupid people dressed up in skins with bones through their noses. You really do despair. Actually, I think the fact that the third in line to be head of state of this nation thinks it's appropriate and amusing to wear a swastika in public is news. And he's planning to join the army and will probably be given an unmerited position of power there also makes his views a matter of public interest IMO. I would be deeply, deeply ashamed of my son if he did something like that, aged 20.

I do wonder how much involvement HArry had in picking that costume. I mean I would have though that he instructed his personal advisor to instruct someone else who delegated to the new peon servant to go get a costume for HArry's party, it got passed by up through the servants and HArry put it on not giving any of it much thought at all, as he was probably already smoking and drinking before he put the costume on... Does any of this really reflect HArry's views? Or is HArry just a puppet headed out to party (as he does!).

I certainly don't think he should get public funding

Ah, the benefits of an expensive education...

I totally agree with aloha's post and have to say that i am quite amazed at how "tolerant" you all are.OK we've all done crazy things at this age but this is disgustingly bad taste from someone in his position. It's already been shown on the news over here in a bemused "look what this crazy royal family has done now " sort of way!

Yes it was a bad choice of costume but i don't really blame him, nobody ever leaves the poor lad alone. Whatever he had worn he would still get talked about and photographed so i bet he just thought 'well why not get up their noses then'.

He's a young lad for goodness sake and i think he needs a break.

Angeliz, I saw that too and that moment was chilling, I wish he had been behind bars when he said that.

As for Harry, well I think it's unforgivable behaviour. At 20, you should be able to see that a Nazi costume is absolutely wrong. the boy is a prat.

I have gret sympathy for ALL victims of the holocaust natch............

BUT i hate the royal family and any gaffe that engenders their dwonfall is "welcomed" by me
shows you how thick all those years of inbreeding have left them

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just look who his grandfather is - no hope left for the lad...

If an expensive education and life in a family where you might be given some sort of inkling that you are part of history, have a role in the State etc aren't enough to let a 20 year-old relise that it was stupid and offensive, then i really do depsir. Come on, Nutty, many people on here are grown up enough to be damn good Mums at his age - it's nbo excuse. And if he does feel like rebelling (and I wouldn't actually blame him for that) then a Nazi outfit was a terrible way to do it.

I hate the way Diana's ashes are raked over for more scandal every other week, mainly because I think how horrible that Paul Burrell doc (for e.g) would be for her children - but whatever you might or might not say about Diana, I think she would have recoiled at anyone wearing a Nazi unifoorm for fun!

And I think it is useful to be reminded at the crass inhumane way many people with considerable sway in the world view the rest of it's citizens .

Hey, I agree with Cod - anything that shows the royals in a bad light is a Good Thing, because soon the tumbrils will roll.

At the same time, being 20 is no bloody excuse. I wouldn't have dreamed of wearing a Nazi costume at that age. He's an adult fully in command of whatever faculties he does posses.

Wasn't the Duke of whateveritwas, the one who was going to be King but married Wallis Simpson, known for his Nazi sympathies?

there is no excuse for this - doesn't matter who you are. And I'm sorry but who the hell goes to a party as a nazi?! even for someone not in the public limelight it's odd but for someone who should know that he is monitored by the press. And...why do it anyway? It'#s not big and it's not clever.

yay MI you and I to the barricades!

I'll join you

Oh, they'll just fizzle out when teh Queen dies, don't worry.