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Prince Harry Apparently Gets Naked, Daily Fail Covers ‘Story’ Badly
Written by Tati
Prince Harry has apparently been snapped in the buff while on holiday. He was allegedly playing ‘strip billiards’. Now I don’t know about you, but I am neither shocked nor distressed by this news. Rosie and I are huge fans of the royals, and we forgive them their social gaffs because:
a) they are usually hilarious (like Beatrice’s hat at the royal wedding), and
b) the old racist ones give us all a merry opportunity to laugh about how passé their bigotry is, and the young ones are… still young (Beatrice’s hat’s media storm? Yeah she was about 17 at the time. What 17 year old wears good hats?). Not that I’ll forgive anything of the young, Tulisa-style. But the royals’ faux pas are rarely worth doing anything more than laughing over. Except that Nazi-costume one.
So when I heard about Prince Harry (usual suspect) and his ‘pasty bum’, I immediately googled to have a grand old giggle, partially at all the ARTICLES CONVEYING THEIR SHOCK THAT A 20-SOMETHING YEAR OLD BOY GOT NAKED ON A WARM HOLIDAY, and partially at the offending bum. And instead, what I found was the Daily Fail. Well hello, Fail.
My main issue with this article is that it shows NONE of the amusing nakey pictures for my personal giggles. Instead, there were just a bunch of photos of P-Haz just trying to have a nice time, standing around and pulling his hat over his face, lest he burn his ginger-person skin (or have his privacy massively invaded). Then, there’s the usual, judgey-Fail stuff – particularly grating when the ENTIRE SIDEBAR is also judgey-Fail stuff, mainly focusing on bitching about ladies (‘Claire Richards…gives up trying to be thin’, ‘we don’t heart our love handles’, something about Cher bullying Tulisa..?). A quote from a royal flunky points out that Harry was expecting a little privacy in his fancy person suite. Fair point, flunky? NO, says the Fail. They go on to discuss how his testosterone level sometimes slips (?!) and how members of the public are ‘shocked’. REALLY? Man, Henry VIII had 8 wives. Think he never played naked billiards? I know he might be an obvious example of royal who lived to excess, but my point remains – this stuff is not new. This is what royals are FOR; we wheel them out during important ceremonies (i.e. Olympics, Canada, whatever that was about) and the rest of the time we love them, laugh at them and forgive their shortcomings. That or organise a massive rebellion against them and go all 1917 on that shiz. CBA dudes.
Oh also, many images have emerged of him ‘partying with his top off’. One of these – a picture of him standing in a pool with friends – is captioned, I kid you not, ‘Shhh… I’m a prince’. What? There’s that giggle. Find me some better photos, Fail.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2191845/Naked-Prince-Harry-pictured-cavorting-nude-girl-VIP-suite-raucous-Vegas-holiday.html?ito=feeds-newsxml