Prince Harry Current Events 8: September-November 2005

[polop]

I don't think he knows it fluently ..I think he only knows the basics he learned in his studies in Etons...

Does Harry speak any languages?

 

[Idriel]

Does Harry speak any languages?

I heard him speak English once or twice.

 

[iowabelle]

Are you sure it was English he spoke? I heard so many complaints about his accent that I'm not sure...

 

[gaggleofcrazypeople]

And he knows a bit of Spanish and sign language.

 

[Harry's polo shirt]

Wasn't Will teaching himself Mandarin?

 

[Oppie]

I think it was Swaheli (spelling ??)

 

[Warren]

I think it was Swaheli (spelling ??)

It's spelt Swahili.

 

[Idriel]

Harry's Sandhurst nickname (?)

Are you sure it was English he spoke? I heard so many complaints about his accent that I'm not sure...

Well I am a French living in Manchester, so I think I'm pretty used to awful accents (even by English standards). And I would certainly qualify Harry's as difficult. Clear as pure water to my ears...

From the Sunday Mirror

HARRY IS THE 'RED BARON'

PRINCE Harry has been dubbed the "Red Baron" by cadets at Sandhurst in a dig at his German roots, ginger hair - and Nazi fancy dress oufit.​

And the prince's pals at the world-famous military academy have circulated on email a computer-generated image of Harry as the wartime dogfighter.​

The picture shows the prince appearing to fly Baron Manfred von Richthofen's famous World War One triplane - covered with swastikas (though the Nazi symbol wasn't in use in the 1914-18 conflict). A Sandhurst source said: "Everyone's having a good laugh at him.​

"A lot of people call him the German - people's heritage is important at a place like this - and the Red Baron tag has stuck because it suits him.​

"Harry is a good lad and takes it in his stride when people wind him up."​

Harry, who sparked outrage in January by wearing a Nazi uniform with a swastika armband to a fancy dress party.​

 

[iowabelle]

The wombat thing, I think he was telling the kids to think of what animal they would be, and he told them he was a wombat. Everyone thought it was cute that he brought up the wombat thing from his childhood. Remember they called him Wombat.

He was trying to get them to find an animal whose name began with the same letter as their own name. W for William and wombat (his childhood nickname).

 

[gaggleofcrazypeople]

I think it was Swaheli (spelling ??)

I've heard of that, but I'm not sure he ever went through with it.

 

[Harry's polo shirt]

HARRY IS THE 'RED BARON'

"A lot of people call him the German - people's heritage is important at a place like this - and the Red Baron tag has stuck because it suits him.​

"Harry is a good lad and takes it in his stride when people wind him up."​

Harry, who sparked outrage in January by wearing a Nazi uniform with a swastika armband to a fancy dress party.​

That is very a mean thing to do.

 

[runaway princess]

There will be a documentry about Prince Harry tommorow in Canada called "Harry: Mysterious Prince"...I'm just wondering if it's any good?..and if I should bother watching it?...

 

[Samm]

There will be a documentry about Prince Harry tommorow in Canada called "Harry: Mysterious Prince"...I'm just wondering if it's any good?..and if I should bother watching it?...

Do you know what network(A&E, CBC?) or what time?

 

[runaway princess]

Do you know what network(A&E, CBC?) or what time?

It's on CBC on 8 o'clock...and then next Tuesday Will's documentary will appear...

 

[gaggleofcrazypeople]

That is very a mean thing to do.

I think he kind of deserved it.

 

[iowabelle]

I was looking through an old Good Housekeeping magazine (1988) and Harry was described as the placid son. That doesn't fit in with his image as the Action Prince or the Red Baron.

 

[justi]

in relation to Harry's nickname as the "Red Baron" being mean I 99% certain that it wasn't meant to be taken as a mean or degrading remark simply a term of endearment, we should all be happy for Harry it sounds like he has been accepted by his peers. Although there is that other 1%, it all depends on the context in which is was and used but I’m sure it wasn’t meant to be mean. When I read it I though it was extremely amusing, I think it’s just that Americans (Harry’s Polo shirt, your location says United States) have a very different sense of humor to a lot of other countries, England included.

Placid son? Maybe that is the type of person he is around his family. Or maybe that’s how he was in 1988. (or was that a typo?)

 

[Elspeth]

Perhaps they just meant that he was the happy-go-lucky one while William was more sensitive.

 

[iowabelle]

Placid son? Maybe that is the type of person he is around his family. Or maybe that’s how he was in 1988. (or was that a typo?)

Yes, 1988. Like I said, my magazine pile is aged!

 

[Warren]

Yes, 1988. Like I said, my magazine pile is aged!

Does your home double as a doctor's waiting room?

 

[Echo7]

Haha, yeah that was funny! Nice line

 

[iowabelle]

Warren, when the archaeologists find my midden, they will find some real treasures!

 

[ysbel]

I think that military colleges pride themselves on ritual abuse of the recruits. My cousin went to the Citadel in the U.S. and some of the stories he told I found horrible but he laughed them off. He said you weren't really considered one of the boys unless you could take it. I still think its horrible but I'd say Harry must be fitting in quite well.

 

[iowabelle]

I think Harry has a resilient personality and he can roll with the punches. It's one of the reasons I like him.

 

[Becky24]

Same here, iowabelle!

 

[gaggleofcrazypeople]

Well, at that point in time, William was Billy the Basher.

 

[regardez]

Well, at that point in time, William was Billy the Basher.

Pardon? What's that from...?

 

[BeatrixFan]

Re:

Pardon? What's that from...?

I shudder to think.

 

[Harry's polo shirt]

Billy the Basher was a childhood nickname, back when he was a wild little boy.

 

[Becky24]

He sure has grown outta that now!