| You’re only 21 once, and it is only fitting that the
media gave in-no-way-out-of-all-proportion coverage to the lucid musings of one particular
21-year-old this week. Step forward, Prince Harry Windsor,
youngest son of The JT’s favourite German, Prince Charles.
Among the other not especially insightful insights that the
interview with the second-reserve monarch afforded to a grateful public was the revelation
of the young lad’s wish, on graduating Sandhurst, to fight in the field with his men.
Leaving aside his past love of uniform, mainly Nazi
ones admittedly but let’s not quibble, your editor, while applauding the
Prince’s courage, was led to speculate on the number of secret campaigns involving
martial exploits involving his dear old dad.
I say "secret", because how else are we to
explain the bewildering range of medals arrayed on our future monarch’s manly chest
whenever he dresses up in one |
of his military costumes, er, sorry, "uniforms"? Now, cynics might say that on rummaging through the dressing-up box
at The Palace, Charles merely grabs a bank of medals appropriate to whatever arm of the
services he seeks to chime in with on a given day.
But surely that cannot be so? For is it not Charles
who daily lectures the rest of us on the need for simplicity and truth? No, the charge of
just dressing up cannot stand.
A more convoluted, tendentious and far-fetched
explanation is ultimately more satisfying: Charles has been secretly fighting for Mum and
country for years and years.
Wherever our brave lads have been in battle there stood our
future king, leading from the front with such bravery that he was fully entitled to
hunners of medals.
I really, really hope that Prince Harry never has to prove
his mettle in battle, in much the |
"And I got the one on the left
for bombing Dresden single handed. Christ, that pissed off one's German cousins I can tell
you".
same way that I entertain the forlorn hope that other people’s sons don’t have
to either. But if he does, I hope he can call upon the services of his dear old Dad to
take the lead, (and perhaps, the lead), after all, Charles is a brave soldier and
he’s got the medals to prove it.
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