|
'Heil Harry' gets the OK
13/01/2005 17:09 - (SA)
|
|
|
 |
|
| Harry on the front page of The Sun (The Sun, AP) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
London - Prince Harry's prospects of attending Britain's top army officers' college will not be hurt by his decision to wear a Nazi German military uniform to a costume party, the ministry of defence said on Thursday.
"This incident will not affect Prince Harry's place at Sandhurst," said a ministry spokesperson after Harry was pictured in the Sun newspaper at a weekend bash in Nazi desert gear, complete with swastika armband.
"The same principle would apply in the case of any other pre-entrance cadet," she said.
She added: "Prince Harry is not yet in the army. "If a cadet at Sandhurst was considered to have committed a serious error of judgment, it would be dealt with on a case by case basis by the chain of command."
Harry, 20, the younger son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana, has apologised for the gaffe, which came to light two weeks before the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp.
He is to begin studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Camberley, Surrey, southeast England, in May, where he will be subject to rigid military discipline.
- AFP
|
