It has been my experience that many of the worst critics of the Royals are, themselves, slackers, shirkers and swine of the worst sort. Others have no idea what those people actually do or put up with. A trip to the sandbox spent with real people would probably be a vacation compared to the crap they put up with at home, and that's a fact. What would we look like, put under the same magnifying glass they operate under every day?

I didn't even know he was in the theatre. But rest assured, if he gobbed on the sidewalk or cut a fart, the media swine are all over it. Bugger that lot for the filth they are.

Good on the lad. And good on you for noticing Chris.
jim | Email | Homepage | 02.28.08 - 5:06 pm | #

Coincidently I just finished re-reading Pournelle's Falkenberg series, including Sparta trilogy featuring Prince Lysander.

Fox is reporting that now that his covers been blown by an Aussie tabloid via Drudge, they're pulling him back home for his safety and that of his fellow troops.

Apparently he had a Gurkha security detachment. I would have almost pitied any AQ or Taliban that went after him. Almost.

Here's a frosty one to "Coronet Windsor"
Randy | Email | Homepage | 02.28.08 - 6:53 pm | #

On British Television tonight the lefty presenters literally frothed at the mouth..everything they hate was on display and for the most part being admired...courage,duty....plus Harry was interviewed whilst armed...oh it was a joy to behold.
thud | Email | Homepage | 02.28.08 - 6:57 pm | #

House Saxe-Coburg-Gothe (or whatever the proper order was) certainly understands duty. Do believe that they can spell lese-majeste, too (although I may not be able to)
jsallison | Email | Homepage | 02.28.08 - 8:04 pm | #

I thought they were House of Windsor, good for him and I'll second Randy hoisting one in honor.
AZMARK | Email | Homepage | 02.28.08 - 8:15 pm | #

Huzzah!

We lift up our glasses against evil forces..
blackeagle603 | Email | Homepage | 02.28.08 - 8:20 pm | #

Yep ... they hadthe Guhrkas hand pick a unit to guard him so he could do his job. I could not imagine any of them letting him get captured before taking 100% casualties.

It's too damned bad that Oz tabloid reporters are apparently just as braindead as US ones.
Kristopher | Email | Homepage | 02.28.08 - 8:41 pm | #

Raises a glass to someone who decided being a man was worth something.
TMSG | Email | Homepage | 02.28.08 - 9:36 pm | #

Mark,

They took the name Windsor during WW1, with the anti-German sentiment of the time running high.

Both Victorias and Alberts first language was German.
Chris Byrne | Email | Homepage | 02.28.08 - 10:51 pm | #

Is it just me, or does everyone just take it for granted that Drudge is a self erving tabloidist cocksucker? It's pretty bad when you prove yourself slimier than the UK tabloids, who were actually keeping a secret. I think the ratscrotum should should be flogged. I really hope Harry calls him out on it. What an ass.
Andy | Email | Homepage | 02.29.08 - 11:17 am | #

It must just be you; and I guess that is because you apparently do not understand the Drudge report. The Drudge report mostly, if not only, reposts news that has already been written/reported on by someone else. So why would that qualify Drudge as some sort of a selfserving T.....C.....S......? He is not the one who broke the story.

As it now stands I believe that the UK is pulling little harry out of Afghanistan. Aghast that anyone should know he is there. Did they beleive for a moment that none of the other troops would recognize him, that none of the media types would recognize him (and that this would then be seen as not news worthy, or worthy of being kept secret). They cannot have it both ways in the UK, either keep him home, or if they let him go to war then make it real and if the enemy finds out he is there - well he is just another soldier. if his being found out was so bad, they should not have sent him there in the first place.

As for him being man enough to choose to go and fight - bravo for him.
Glenn B | Email | Homepage | 02.29.08 - 4:46 pm | #

The Brit squaddies and media types knew he was there and kept quiet. The problems, as I see them, come when opposition reporters or cameramen are killed trying to get shots of "Harry in action", or worse get squaddies killed trying to keep said idiots from being killed. As far as the Taliban, thats just targets in the open, a job Harry's trained to handle.
AZMARK | Email | Homepage | 02.29.08 - 9:50 pm | #

Harry I have respect for. The Queen has abdicated her responsibilities to her subjects as has Prince Charles. They are responsible for defending their subject, including their subjects freedom. They have abdicated that by allowing British subjects to be jailed for defending their homes with a shotgun. They have abdicated by allowing all their Subjects to be disarmed. And mostly have abdicated by allowing their Sovereign Authority to be given over to the European Union. All of these events should have had the Queen disolve Parliment and admonish them to respect the rights of Her subjects and protect the Sovereignity of Her state and fix the issue, and that She would dissolve Parliments untill they do.

Emporor Hirohito of Japan allowed the evil actions of his government before and during WWII because he felt that the election of parliment and the people's choice should matter more than what he knew was right. That mistake almost destroyed the Japanese people. He finally stepped in and forced the surrender and it was a close thing that it wen through by that time due to an attempted cout.

The British Royal family's abdication of their responsibilities may yet cost England more than Hirohito's cost Japan. After all their enemies are less forgiving and more racist than 1945 America.
Anonymous | Email | Homepage | 02.29.08 - 9:57 pm | #

Anonymous I agree with you completely. Unfortunately, the royal family is behind all the transnationalism.

In the end, the people are responsible for their county and the people of the UK have abdicated their responsibility. The royals should be hanging from lamp posts. Instead, the people of the UK will be hanging from the gallows or worse.
Anonymous | Email | Homepage | 03.05.08 - 8:29 pm | #