Incandescent With Rage???

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LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Britain's Prince Charles has ordered his son Harry to visit Auschwitz after he caused outrage around the world by wearing a Nazi uniform to a party, the Sun newspaper reported on Friday.<br /><br />The paper said heir-to-the-throne Charles was "incandescent with rage" with the 20-year-old grandson of Queen Elizabeth and wants him to make a private trip to the concentration camp to learn more about the Holocaust.<br /><br />Jewish groups had demanded Harry go the camp in southwest Poland to make amends for wearing a swastika armband and an army shirt with Nazi regalia at a costume party on Saturday.<br /><br />The Sun, which broke the Nazi gaffe story on Thursday, quoted an unnamed royal source as saying that Prince Charles also told his older son, William, to travel with Harry to Auschwitz.<br /><br />"There will be no publicity and they will go with a Jewish charity," the source was quoted as saying in the Sun.<br /><br />"Their father has visited Auschwitz himself and believes Harry and William would both benefit by grasping a greater understanding of the horrors by actually visiting."<br /><br />The paper said William, 22, accepted part of the blame because he was present when Harry picked the Nazi costume in a hire shop before the private party in southwest England.<br /><br />A royal spokesman said he would not comment on any private conversations between Prince Charles and his sons, adding: "We wouldn't rule it out, we wouldn't rule it in."<br /><br />Harry's behavior drew a storm of protest from around the world, coming two weeks before the Jan. 27 events to commemorate 60 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.<br /><br />The Nazis murdered six million Jews and millions of others including Poles, homosexuals, Soviet prisoners and Gypsies. Millions more were imprisoned or forced to work as slaves.<br /><br />Harry, son of the late Princess Diana and third in line to the throne, said he was sorry if he had caused any offence. "It was a poor choice of costume and I apologize," he said.<br /><br />His apology failed to take the heat out of the row, which led television news bulletins and dominated front pages of British newspapers on Friday.<br /><br />The mass-market Daily Mail demanded in a huge page one headline "Come out and say sorry properly!," while the downmarket Daily Star branded Harry "The Fool in the Crown."<br /><br />The voice of the establishment, The Times, dismissed his apology as "feeble" and said he had fallen in with "a dubious group of self-indulgent young men who are apparently content with a life of pointless privilege."<br /><br />The Guardian noted: "This young man could one day be our king. That is a sobering thought to many, if not yet to Prince Harry himself."<br /><br />The Mirror was kinder, reminding readers he was young when his mother Diana died in a Paris car crash in 1997 and "deserves a little understanding."
 

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Re: Incandescent With Rage???

SWASHTIKA HARRY.. shoulda went as a royal HARRY potter..<br /><br />or maybe even as a'royal pain-in-the-@!#% '.. anything but that..!!<br /><br />( bet he got the babes ) girls love nazi's
 

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Re: Incandescent With Rage???

Just goes to show - being "high born" don't necessarily make you smart :p
 

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Re: Incandescent With Rage???

Ths is the type of thing that can happen when history is not taught in schools or subverted in it's text by the liberal press and teachers
 

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Few in Prince Harry's generation appreciate the depth of feeling in my generation about the Nazis.<br /><br />If prince Charles was "incandescent with rage" I can only imagine how his grandparents feel.<br /><br />It is sort of like one of the Bush twins going to a NAACP party in a KKK costume. :eek: <br /><br />Good people make mistakes, sometimes serious mistakes, and the ghouls out there (media) make the most scandal they can of those mistakes. That's their business, scandal, not socially responsible commentary.<br /><br />I am sure that the young man is humiliated by the realization of what he did. All of his good works and public service are being ignored in a media feeding frenzy. <br /><br />Yes. He should go to Auschwitz (sp?) to repair his public image, and speak to the public about what he learns there.<br /><br />If that is the stupidest thing he does in his life he would make a decent King, should the need arise.
 

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Well, Jay Leno said last night that the young lad said "he was under orders to go like that".<br />Well his dad was really upset and Prince Charles was too. :D
 

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Just think, if it were not for the good ol fighting US Armed Forces, they all would be wearing those over there.
 

lakelivin

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Sounds like the perfect action by Charles.<br /><br />Let's see what Harry has to say after his visit to Auschwitz. At his age, perhaps he should be judged by how much he learns from the experience as much as by his ignorant stunt in the first place.
 
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