Prince Harry the Drug Fiend

DadaKopf · 13-01-2002 4:48pm #1

For the first time in a long time, I've been following the news about the royal family and Prince Harry's 'drug problem' and today, two things struck me:

1]
No single news station has thought to mention (or chosen to mention) the fact that his mother died in an horrific accident which was subsequently splashed all over the media. Journalists are happy to moralise about his regal role and responsibility but when it comes to the human factor of someone's mother dying and it being sensationalised, I'm not surprised Harry has turned to booze and hash.

2]
As mentioned above, journalists have mentioned his 'responsibility' to the public - he should have led an example to the youth of Britain and steered clear of this kind of thing. I suspect the public's reaction to the whole affair is: 'he's just a kid, a person like you or me and everyone makes mistakes'. I think that's most people's reaction, in stark contrast to the press who need a story. If this is the case, then this whole incident just goes to show how obsolete the royal family is in Britain and what little role, if any, they hold over the British public. Clearly Harry nor his father or brother has any real role (partly due to the demystification of the royal family due to policy and the media) and thus no responsibility to act in any real figurehead manner, with no responsibility to the public. Since their role is to please themselves and, afterall, they're 'just people', why not scrap them?

mike65 · 13-01-2002 4:59pm

I heard the News of the World hack who wrote the scoop
on Radio 4 this morning describing Harry as a "latch key kid"
last summer, with no-one to keep and eye on him what with Mum dead, dad on royal duty and big brother off on his gap year, did'nt anyone think to ask themselves "whats Harry up to on his own?"

A fair point I think, I dont usually agree with anything the News of the Screws says.

Boston · 13-01-2002 5:01pm

hes just doing what generations of his family did, all he has to do now is marry a cousin

Typedef · 13-01-2002 5:09pm

The only responsibility journalists have is to maul people in the media, because thats what they do. Imagine it, one of your relatives goes up for a political post for example and next thing it is splashed all over the media that you once were arrested for smoking hash in Stephens Green. It's exactly the kind of thing that happens to people regularly in the media, so why is it any different when it is a member of the British royal family. Don't get me wrong royality is a farce, but the guy is a person and while yes he is in the public eye sure, whatever, the young fella deserves to do the sort of stupid things fellas his age do, because getting drunk and stoned is the kind of moronic thing you do when you are his age and so what? Imagine if everytime you used the toilet your life was turned into a three ring circus by the media, which tires, convicts and executes you for three or four days before moving on to someone else to humiliate and embarrass?

yossarin · 13-01-2002 9:32pm

there was a good comment on sky defending him as the product of a broken home;

leave the kid alone, his mother is dead, and his dads unemployed

maybe him and tony blairs son should go out on the town together...

DeVore · 13-01-2002 10:33pm

jaysis the lad does what a lot of teenagers his age do, gets trollied and smokes a few joints with his mates.

I'd say he's MORE in touch with his subjects as a result then any of the Royals

DeV.

bubbles · 13-01-2002 10:52pm

I heard Harry's supplier is the Queens Mother.... Thats why she's in hospital all the time, getting friendly with all the doctors, letting them sponge bath her and in return she gets anything she wants on perscription.

But on a serious note, Harry does seem to be more in touch with people than any of the older Royles, probably because Diana brought in some fresh DNA into the family, to help get rid of the effect of 100 years inbreeding that occured in the family..

Ears like that just arn't right....

Robbo · 13-01-2002 10:59pm

I'm suprised that when, as a very young looking 16 year old, in his local pub, with a face as recognisable as his, they still served him booze. Perhaps the barman was after an OBE?

mike65 · 14-01-2002 12:06am

I have an image of Mien Host leaning across the bar and saying "Oi Harry, you're not old enough have anymore than a shandy, now hopit!"

Mike

Bluehair · 14-01-2002 2:13am

Originally posted by Robbo
I'm suprised that when, as a very young looking 16 year old, in his local pub, with a face as recognisable as his, they still served him booze. Perhaps the barman was after an OBE?

Whats even more remarkable is the relationship with his 'permanent' bodyguard. Apparently in order to develop genuine trust between the two it's accepted practise for the bodyguard to turn a blind eye to these practises and maintain silence to even Charles! (As reported by Sky). The policy is that nothing that the young lad gets up to under the bodyguards care is reported on and Harry is largely given free reign by him (bar getting himself killed of course

) I.E. It's none of the bodyguards business to tell-tales.. purely to protect...