Why get so worked up about Prince Harry's Nazi costume? No one suggests he was making a political point, and no one suggests he intended to offend anyone.
He was going to fancy dress party. His costume was intended for light hearted fun and a limited audience of friends. It is not as if he was attending an Auschwitz memorial service.
He is third in line to the throne, and if he ever makes it to the throne, he will have no power. Is he condemned to a life of orthodox correctness by virtue of being in the public eye on account of his birth?
Can he not display a little - or even a lot of - bad taste every now and again? Has he no artistic licence? Can he not be a teensy provocative every now and again? Never to let his hair down, offend, and grow up in his own way?
Or must he have come into the world a ready formed, middle aged eunuch - reserve symbol for a nation ambivalent about its nationhood?
Let a man's private parties be private. If you want to act the voyeur, don't complain about what you see.
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