Royal Family in right-wing view shocker
For GaryNext to their exclusive that Prince Harry dressed as a Nazi the Sun has a nice article showing us that the other Royal Family members had a good war.
We learn that the Queen Mum, (Gawd bless her! May she live to be 100!) kept the nation’s spirits up by "refusing to leave London", the Queen "drove Army vehicles", Prince Philip was "involved in many successful missions with the Royal Navy", while Harry’s great-uncle Lord Mountbatten (Good old Dicky) "captained a destroyer and became the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia".
Oddly it doesn't mention some others of the illustrious family. For example, Prince Harry's great-great-uncle, King Edward VIII, later the Duke of Windsor, was well-known for his Nazi sympathies. Aside from meeting the Fuhrer in the late 1930s, he spent most of the rest of his life in exile in Paris ranting to whomever would listen that if only the Jews had listened, and left, war could have been averted.
Anyway, let's not be too harsh on Harry. Blessed with his mother's looks and his father's brain, or possibly his mother's looks and his mother's brain, or possibly even his mother and father's brains, and James Hewitt's looks, he probably knew no better. It's not as if it's completely beyond the pale -- people go to fancy-dress parties dressed as nazis all the time. Not admittedly public figures, or ones with the theme 'native and colonials', but there you go*.
What is serious however is that if his only slightly-less-intelligence-challenged brother falls under a bus, then this man will one day be our ruler, and we his subjects. What a system**.
* Incidentally I remember a similar theme for Prince William's 21st or something. They just can't let it go can they?
** And before someone says well 'would you prefer Mrs Thatcher as President, or Iain Duncan Smith', the answer is 'Yes, and yes again. Obviously'.
posted by Matthew @ 1/13/2005 10:56:00 AM
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