Harry, Edward VIII, and other Royal Nazi Pains
The Telegraph of India, of all things, points out why the Prince Harry flap is an extremely uncomfortable gaffe: many of the Royals and the aristocracy had friendly, even supportive relationship with the Nazis before the war.
The detail added on NPR today - at the "natives and colonials" theme party (not exactly a stellar theme either), someone did an imitation of the Queen, so upsetting Harry that he sat pouting in the corner, which lead the NPR wag to "imagine this kid squatting in the corner, pouting over the offense, wearing a nazi uniform." As gaffes go, it's a little hard to imagine how it could have been worse - at least he didn't go as Eva Braun.
To regrettably quote the Tonight Show: "Didn't we have a revolution to get away from these people?"
posted by JAB at 2:17 PM
1 Comments:
He should have known better, but I agree with Dr. X. We've all got a few stories of extremly poor judgemet in our closets (maybe not that poor, but close). I'm just glad that none of mine were subjected to the srutiny of the cell phone camera.
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