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Looks like older brother got all the brains in the family. Sheez.

I don't approve of the cigarette, either.

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LONDON Jan 13, 2005 — Jewish groups and lawmakers criticized Prince Harry on Thursday for wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party, with one group urging him to visit the Auschwitz death camp, despite an apology from the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II.

The 20-year-old prince apologized Wednesday in a statement after a British newspaper printed a picture of him wearing the uniform with a swastika armband while clutching a cigarette and a drink at a party on Saturday.

"I think a lot of people will be disappointed to see that photograph and it will cause a lot of offense," said Michael Howard, leader of Britain's main opposition Conservative Party.

"I think it might be appropriate for him to tell us himself just how contrite he now is," added Howard, who is Jewish.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles expressed outrage and urged Prince Harry to travel to Poland later this month to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp.

"There he will see the results of the hated symbol he so foolishly and brazenly chose to wear," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the center.

Prime Minister Tony Blair's office was reluctant to get involved. "Clearly an error was made," Blair's official spokesman said. "That has been recognized by Harry, and I think it is better that this matter continues to be dealt with by (Buckingham) Palace."

Jewish groups in Britain were more moderate in their criticism.

"The fact that the palace has issued an apology indicates that this was a mistake by the prince," said Rabbi Jonathan Romain, a spokesman for the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain. "But having being given, the apology should now be accepted."

A spokesman for the Board of Deputies of British Jews said the costume "was clearly in bad taste, especially in the run-up to Holocaust Memorial Day" on Jan. 27. But he added: "The board is pleased that he's apologized for the incident."

The queen will commemorate the Holocaust and 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by inviting survivors of the Nazi death camps and British World War II veterans who liberated them to a reception at St. James' Palace.

The picture of Prince Harry, the second son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, appeared in The Sun newspaper.

In the statement, Harry said he was "very sorry if I caused any offense or embarrassment to anyone."

"It was a poor choice of costume and I apologize," he added.

Harry, who plans to enroll this year at a military college, has long been known as the wilder of Charles and Diana's two handsome sons, in contrast to his university-student brother Prince William, 22.

Harry, third in line to the throne, has been photographed drinking in London's trendiest nightclubs and three years ago was sent by his father to observe a drug rehabilitation center after being caught smoking marijuana. In October, he scuffled with a paparazzi photographer outside a London nightclub.

A former Buckingham Palace spokesman said he believed Prince Charles was too easy on his sons.

"I'm sorry, the Prince of Wales, he's a humanitarian and he does some terrific work, but I don't think he has … the right discipline over his children, particularly Prince Harry," Dickie Arbiter told Sky News TV.

Oh, I thought......

never mind......

You expect too much, Larry.

Actually, Larry, I was rather hoping *you'd* take the hint.

And I don't expect anything else from you, Cindy.

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

It is not a very well-known fact that Prince Harry is in fact the first person to appear photographed with his top on in this prestigious newspaper.

I didn't think that The Sun kept up to date with anything other than Jordan. :rolleyes:

He would be better off to have gone topless!

I admit Harry's over the edge and in bad form with the swastika- there are plenty of other costumes he could have worn. But then he could be in awe of his late great uncle, the Duke of Windsor (better known as Edward VIII- the King who abdicated so he could marry that divorced tart, Mrs. Wallace Simpson). The Duke and Joe Kennedy Sr. rather liked that scoundrel Hitler.

As for the cigarette, Harry's probably emulating his great grandfather George VI. Great Grandpapa was a chain smoker who actually got on quite well with another chain smoker- FDR.

HE'S 20 years old...probably showing his friends how he's not controlled by his stuffy old relatives...

He may be 20 years old, but he makes a very good argument against monarchy.

A couple of points...

1. We were all brain-dead at 20. Hopefully, some of us got better with age.

2. You have to admit, Jordan is probably worthy of having film wasted on her.

Yeah, he showed his friends, all right!

I wasn't brain dead at 20. I think there was a small, faint flicker in one lobe.

You had to look pretty closely to find it, though!

Cindy -- thinking Harry and Paris Hilton are definitely a match

Chances of Harry becoming King are pretty slim. As the article points out, his healthy father and slightly older brother are ahead of him. Besides he's being a wee bit like his uncle Andrew the Duke of York in his youth. Randy Andy as he was known, was second in line after Charles and enjoyed the company of the corn porn actress Koo Stark.

In any case Slick Willy of Arkansas didn't do much for the image of republican government either when he stated, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." We sure got a laugh out of that line.

Maybe he can become dictator.

I look at young people and try to be forgiving. I believe MOST OF US were young and dumb at some point in our lives. I know I was.

just my 2 cents,

I'll admit the same thing crossed my mind. Oh well, wrong again.

Maybe he can become dictator.

He would be the first Henry after Henry VIII. I suppose there's a bit of precedent- but despite Cromwell, it is a stretch .

I resemble that remark!

What a total idiot.

Has he learned about history? Isn't it obvious that the Nazi emblem is a controversial and extremely negative icon? Why the f*** did he have to choose that? I don't accept his apology because he obviously there is something that he is hiding. Probably he is against Jews. Probably he does want to become a dictator!