ALTHOUGH MANY PEOPLE DO NOT BELIEVE SO, being a successful royal prince nowadays is a difficult and sometimes tricky business, requiring intelligence, savoir faire and underhand behavior. No one epitomizes this so much as our very own Prince Henry Charles Albert David Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, now known as Harry Wales, or Harry Windsor.
“HARRY” IS BOTH A HARD-WORKING member of what is sometimes termed the “most hard-working family in Britain” and also a Captain in the British Army, a position in which he has served in Afghanistan and through which he is responsible for the lives of many men in his regiment, all of whom are in Afghanistan at the moment, somehow managing to muddle on through without the help of their captain, who is, nevertheless, no doubt still thinking about them as he takes a well-earned holiday in our former American colonies, more lately in the rest and relaxation resort of Las Vegas.
OF LATE, HOWEVER, UNSCRUPULOUS people have found it to their advantage to publish some grainy, out of focus photographs of Prince Henry that they have taken on their new-fangled telephones which can also capture images.
MY PERSONAL OPINION OF THESE EVENTS is well-known. I perfectly understand why a gentleman of leisure would want to play billiards naked in the company of equally naked young ladies (but not snooker, which is a serious game), and I share his enjoyment of watching television naked, particularly in America, and so none of these photographs about which many people in the world of the media are so excited seem in any way offensive to me.
YET I CANNOT UNDERSTAND how the third in line to the throne of England could allow himself to be photographed wearing an “angry birds” hat. In case anyone finds this too unlikely to be believed, I am reproducing a photograph of this gauche behavior above. One can only hope that his grandfather has confiscated the offending headgear.
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