"Has royal rogue Prince Harry finally gone too far?" asked Jonann Brady in ABC News. Harry had to issue an apology over the weekend after a British newspaper released a tape of the prince making racist remarks, including calling a fellow soldier "our little Paki friend," and using the term "raghead" while serving in the military in 2006. His grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II probably wasn't amused, but historians say "these royal screw-ups" usually just make the public love the royal black sheep more.
It's certainly not news that Prince Harry is a "royal dimwit," said Tracy Quan in The Daily Beast. And it's perfectly believable that, as a member of the generation that has made "queer" a politically correct synonym for gay, he intended nothing mean by his remarks. But one thing's clear—he appears to have "inherited an unlucky combination of Diana's legendary dimness and the undiplomatic DNA of the Prince of Edinburgh."
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