Prince Harry In Hot Water Again
The Young Royal Reportedly Attacked A Photographer Outside A London Club
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Prince Harry's Wild Night
British tabloids had a field day when Prince Harry was seen exiting a London club, apparently drunk. Patrick Jephson, former secretary to Princess Diana, discusses the incident with Hannah Storm.
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Reports say Prince Harry walked out of a London nightclub, apparently drunk early Saturday morning, and allegedly took a swing at a photographer (AP)
Reports say Prince Harry walked out of a London nightclub, apparently drunk at 3 a.m. Saturday. He reportedly took a swing at a photographer and then fell to the ground, stumbling as he was trying to get in his car before being driven away. A royal family spokesperson denies that the Prince did anything wrong and in just a few weeks he's due to go to Iraq with his Army unit.
Prince Charles' London office on Saturday night denied that his son, Prince Harry, was involved in a scuffle with a photographer as he left a nightclub.
The young royal allegedly lashed out at a paparazzi as he left popular celebrity haunt Boujis in central London early Saturday.
Harry is shown in several Sunday newspapers apparently stumbling to the ground and being helped to his feet. In another picture, he is seen standing behind photographer Nirach Tanner who claims the prince attempted to assault him.Photos: A Prince And An Officer
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Patrick Jephson, the former private secretary to Princess Diana, said this latest incident is very embarrassing to the royal family because the photographs taken of the prince show him acting spoiled and not like a dignified military officer.
"Of course, he is on leave at the moment," Jephson, a former Naval officer, told The Early Show co-anchor Hannah Storm. "And as the spokesman accurately points out, lots of military officers go out on the weekend. Harry, unfortunately, gets photographed by the news of the world so he's painted as being worse than he really is."
Of course, the prince has been through a lot in his young life. He was only a boy when his mother, Princess Diana, died in a car crash in 1997. Jephson said when Prince Harry was younger he was devoted to his mother and now he is devoted to her memory.
"Used to be a nice joke about the young Harry that if you wanted him to do something, the trick was to tell him to do the opposite," Jephson said. "So he's always had a mind of his own."
The News of the World newspaper quoted Tanner as saying the prince swore at him.
"He screamed at me ... then grabbed me and tried to shove me over. He had his hands around my collar and back," Tanner was quoted as saying.
Prince Harry is often closely followed by paparazzi as he visits London nightclubs or bars in an effort to catch him in uncompromising situations. Two years ago, he came under fire for dressing like a Nazi at a costume party. He later apologized.
Jephson pointed out that "British cavalry officers have been falling out of nightclubs for a great many years," so Prince Harry's behavior isn't that far from the norm and it's probably not fair to assume he has a drinking problem.
"There is, perhaps, more of a judgment problem," he said. "If we accept that boys will be boys, this is not a boy like any other. He's about to go off to war, about to come into a very stressful situation. Anything that cast doubt on his judgment, even at the young age of 22, is probably more embarrassing than the issue of whether or not he's had too much to drink."
Jephson said that the military has said there will be no repercussions for the incident, but the British armed forces and the forces of the crown take their reputation very seriously.
"I suspect there's more than one senior cavalry officer looking at their newspapers this morning and saying, well, if this isn't bringing the service into disrepute, I don't know what is," he said.
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bad place. They should sing his praises, he's the only one of the sorry royal welfare receipients that is doing anything for his country. Atta boy!
Give the kid a break. You want to slam a camera in his face at every turn he makes. Making money off pictures he has not given permission for you to take. And you get surprised and shocked when he lashes out at you. I am sure that you will try and file some kind of criminal charges against him. What about your stalking him, is that not criminal? I agree with the person who said that you guys are fair game for a cricket bat. Have sympathy for a person whose mother was killed in the same fashion that you are doing to him. Just stay away!!
Getting drunk in Iraq will make him that much better a target, if his handlers dare send him to go kill Iraqi women and children.
Getting drunk in Iraq will make him that much better a target, if his handlers dare send him to go kill Iraqi women and children.
As far as the people who say he sheds bad light on the "service" ... It's ironic that these people will criticize a kid getting tipsy at a bar and getting angry at someone who's violating his privacy, yet think nothing of sending this same kid into another country to kill innocent people.
Leave the boy alone and let him live the life he wants to live, without having every footstep he takes plastered all over the papers. Poor kid.
Let's keep in mind that this is not something that he chose....he was born into this family. Try for once to imagine your every move being photographed. It's almost as though he is being stalked. While I have no sense of compassion for someone like Madonna or Britany Spears complaining about photographers (if you don't like it retire from Hollywood and crawl under a rock), I do for Prince Harry. He is not seeking the attention of the public, he is simply trying to live his life!
The military over there are always out boozing it up, the legal age is 18 and there is a pub on every corner, what does that tell you is the priority in life. Don't be seen, be heard.
However, if he wants to live this way and keep the paparazzi out of his life, he should get out of the United Kingdom, shed his royal title, change his name, so he can live his life anonymously.
If he wants to keep his royal title and serve in the UK military, then he needs to learn to live a clean life.
The so called princes..very dubious.... have money up the arse. Never feel sorry for them or the crown,for they don't give a hoot for you and never will. They are British. The British don't give a *** about anyone except themselves. They are all pompous and self serving so called humans.......equivalent to apes....... But apes are better.
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by htr1wy
March 28, 2007 1:32 AM PDT
- What is it with people? Why is the paparazzi always in someone's face and then really angry when they get pounded or have their cameras damaged. Anything for a buck I suppose. Harry is doing nothing we all haven't done. As a Viet Nam vet, I drank a bit too much also. Of course I never made the news since I wasn't famous for anything other than a really low draft lottery number of 17.
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See all 34 CommentsThis is what is wrong with society as a whole, people cannot leave other people alone. Gheesh!