Saving Prince Harry

Saving Prince Harry

Steven Spielberg has announced that he is to direct a new film called Saving Prince Harry. The blockbuster movie is about a poor little rich boy who has a fantasy about being an ordinary person who wanted to go to war as an ordinary soldier. The boy's dream had a sense of reality about it, when his powerful grandmother pulled strings for him to fly to Afghanistan so that he could be near some real soldiers. But the enemy, the media, closed in on the boy and like Steve McQueen, he jumped on his motorbike to make The Great Escape. For he is no ordinary boy at all, no ordinary soldier, he is Prince Harry, 3rd in line to the throne in a crumbling British Empire, and the Army high command must save him from further embarrassment...

"Following a detailed assessment of the risks by the operational chain of command, the decision has been taken by Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Strap, Chief of Defence Staff, in consultation with General Sir Richard Donought, Chief of the General Staff, to withdraw Prince Harry from Afghanistan immediately.

"This decision has been taken primarily on the basis that the worldwide media coverage of Prince Harry in Afghanistan could impact on the security of those who are deployed there, as well as the risks to him as an individual soldier".

Prince Harry is reported to be disappointed that he will no longer be able to play football behind the lines, and will have to return the Queen's Shilling for failing to carry out his mission. But all is not lost, he will be awarded The Single White Feather for outstanding cowardice in the face of the enemy.



UPDATE: Obsolete has an exclusive photo showing that Harry met Camilla while in Afghanistan. Once again somebody else was riding her...

Prince Harry's phoney war

Prince Harry's phoney war

The BBC 6 O' Clock News reported that Prince Harry has been in Afghanistan in the front line fighting the Taliban for 10 weeks. However, the photo opportunity showed the prince in a heavily fortified camp behind the lines sat behind a desk. He was also shown shooting a machine gun at nothing. And patrolling a deserted street which reminded me of a film set for a wild west movie.

Nicholas Witchell really should not claim that Prince Harry came under fire. At night he might be sat around a camp fire...

UPDATE: Credit to The Drudge for breaking the story. No credit for this line "Army chiefs have managed to keep the prince away from media". The media were there, they just subjected themselves to a self-imposed news blackout until such time as the Establishment were ready to release the news.

Some interesting comments over on My Telegraph blog. Link.

UPDATED UPDATE: While The Drudge is claiming "A world exclusive", this is not true as the story first broke on a blog in Australia back in January, and the day before The Drudge's so-called world exclusive it was mentioned in a German newspaper's diary column. Shouldn't Jon Snow really be saying thank God for our penal colony down under?

It emerged on Questiontime that a BBC documentary film crew has been with the prince since he went to Afghanistan. And, the prince has stated that he is now a normal soldier. Which other normal soldier would be allowed to take a BBC documentary film crew to war with him? Harry remains a coward. Gorgeous George Galloway accused the BBC of colluding in the war effort. Meanwhile, Newsnight thought Marks and Sparks ripping off its customers by charging 5p for every plastic bag was the big story of the day. Harry came a poor third billing.