Prince Harry shocks the world again

I feel sorry for him. He’s a monarch and because of that he cant do a mistake without it having waves on the rest of the world.

What did he do this time? He went to a dress up party as a nazi officer. Not a very good choice of a costume. But he’s apologised and it still doesn’t seem to calm things down. I mean even the jewish british community doenst make a huge deal about it. Of course they were outraged at first, but they know that he’s young, and probably don’t know much about WWII just like almost 45% of the british people.

Headlines read, the picture that would have broken Princess Diana’s heart. Well exactly, if she had been there she wouldn’t have let him go dressed like that.

Harry’s been misbehaving a lot: like smoking pot, drinking till he can hardly stand, cheating on exams, and having fights, but I’ve done the same things, and I know a lot of people my age and his age that did it. Of course it’s not honourable at all. But most of us have to go through this stage to grow up. It’s all about experiencing life. It’s only worse for him because he’s a prince and is the image of an institution that should be squeaky clean.

Not a single family is perfect. The royal family is no exception. They have their naughty ones and Harry happens to be one of them. But if he was in a “regular” family, it wouldn’t be such a big deal. Probably the fact that he’s a public personality makes him behave this way because he doesn’t want to be what the whole world expects him to be.

But when you think about it, the UK’s taxes is what feeds this family. The average grass root English bloke pays for their fancy lifestyle and expensive holidays. So that’s probably why people WANT them to be perfect.

It’s like they want them to be this ideal royal family but are on the look out for their most insignificant err so they can point at it and spit on them for no being perfect enough. That’s my own point of view though and I’m probably beginning to dramatise a bit too much…

Thank God I’m just a regular girl that has to go to work everyday to pay her bills!
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IG: I will preface this by saying I am not a monarchist. Harry is a prince, and should know by now anything he does in public WILL have media attention. Sure, its tough and as you pointed out, he is like any young man of his age, wanting to party and get up to mischief.

I think the other thing going against Harry is he is not the oldest. He is always going to be playing second string to William, who will one day be King, unless something drastic happens. Imagine growing up knowing this. He is probably really feeling f@%ked up about it.

But when you think about it, the UK’s taxes is what feeds this family. The average grass root English bloke pays for their fancy lifestyle and expensive holidays. So that’s probably why people WANT them to be perfect.


I agree completely.

Cheers,

Maso

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I think more then just adolescent rebellion it's grief.

He was his mother's son, there was always speculation about who his biological father was - if he was Charles or James Hewitts or someone elses and he was very close to his mother. He was quite young when she died and I think basically what it all boils down to is Harry is grieving, rebelling and misbehaving and trying out all the teenage stuff because he misses his mother. The press is hounding his dad saying that he had her killed, there's that book written by her butler and the rumours about whether she was pregnant and how she was still concious while in the car and died in theatre

Anyone would be out of mind with grief at the loss of a close parent, but to be in a fishbowl your whole life and lose the person who was teaching you how to behave and was like your anchor I guess is too much.

And what maso said about being the second born.
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Actually, what Trina said is probably closer to the truth than I was. The very fact that his parentage has been discussed, investigated and written about is probably more than any person could take, the poor man.

Something else has just occured to me too and that is the fact that the British public, ever so leery and ugly at the best of times, really do look up to their royalty to provide the 'correct' way to do things. Who could blame a young lad for wanting to kick against the general public's impression of him. I certainly couldn't...
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Wait...I'm confused here. Didn't this happen 2 or 3 weeks ago?
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Hi Maso! Thanks for stopping by Yes Harry should now by now. I'm wondering if he doesnt do all this in purpose actually to show the world he wants to be him and not something he SHOULD be.

Trina, i think you really nailed it. All this pressure, all this gossip, it really sucks...

ED, i'm not sure when this happened but i've had some problems with my computer (AGAIN, i know) and i could only come on JU yesterday. So sorry if it's old news...
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Or maybe, like a lot of young men, he is completely insensitive and does things on the spur of the moment.

Good to hear from you. I have been wondering where you've been and now I know. Bloody computers...

Cheers,

Maso
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Bloody computers, you can say that again mate!
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To me, it looked more like the 1970's punk interpretation of naziism. Go back and look at punk rock fashion of the Sex Pistols era and you find nazi stuff, and I'd say most who wore it were't out to gas anyone.

Granted, it is insensitive, but aren't teens expected to be insensitive once in a while? Hell, teen years with no experimentation, no ability to express anything out-of-the-way, no ability to rebel. It's insane, and probably turns out people that are pretty imbalanced.

I'd much prefer a future king that behaved as a normal teen than one that was a neutered automaton. One is normal, the other creeps me out.

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Baker Street, i think you're right about the teens supposed to be the way teens behave. It's their hormones, right? And acting like jerks is the everyday life of a normal teenager. (Apologies to all the teens ou there but you'll agree with me when you hit your 20s or later).

The problem is he's in the public's eye and because of that he should be an example of what "politically correctness" (if that's a word?!) like Maso pointed out. And when he's not, well everyone wants a piece of him.

It's so unfair. But that's the way it works.
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Bloody computers...
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Maso: