Racial epithets in cultured accents

The Jerusalem Post - 15 Feb 2009 - By SARAH LYALL

LONDON – Britons generally agree – or say they do – that being racist is bad and that making racist remarks is wrong. But there is no national consensus on what that means, exactly.

Royal Blues

Evening Standard Magazine - 13 Feb 2009

Evening Standard Magazine

Poor old Prince Harry. Chelsy Davy has given him the boot, another excruciating gaffe recently hit the front pages, and even his very own charity, Sentebale, seems to be strangely uncharitable. Mark Hollingsworth unravels a regrettable tale of palace politics and misdemeanours.

When Prince Harry discovered last year that the charity he founded had given just £84,000 to help AIDS orphans in Africa – despite raising £1.15 million – he was enraged. Just three years previously he had been so touched by the plight of abandoned and HIV-infected children at an orphanage in the impoverished state of Lesotho in South Africa that he set up the charity Sentebale. He poured his heart and soul into the project and raised vast sums from sales of his ITV documentary The Forgotten Kingdom, polo events, the star-studded Concert for Diana at Wembley Stadium and public donations.

Prince Harry to train as pilot at Barkston Heath

The Grantham Journal – December 30, 2008.

PRINCE Harry is to train as a helicopter pilot at RAF Cranwell and RAF Barkston Heath, following in the footsteps of his father Prince Charles and elder brother Prince William.

Prince Harry pays tribute to courageous children

Britain's Prince Harry (L) meets brokers John Herbert (C) and Andy Brown (R) at the offices of city traders ICAP in London December 10, 2008. Prince Harry was attending the 16th Annual ICAP Charity Day, where all global revenues from ICAP trading are donated to 100 charities, including Sentebale, of which Prince Harry is a patron. (Reuters)

WalesOnline – December 10, 2008

Prince Harry led the nation today in paying tribute to some of Britain’s most “courageous” youngsters.

The Prince presented medals to 10 children and teenagers who have overcome adversity, shown compassion for others, battled against disability or illness, or shown bravery.

The group were honoured at the Woman’s Own Children of Courage 2008 awards ceremony staged at Westminster Abbey.

Red Hair Philosophy

The Age – November 11, 2008.

Believes it comes from his mother’s side. She has fair hair and her brother is a redhead. Ling’s older brother has brown hair, but both he and his younger sister are redheads. RED HAIR PHILOSOPHY

Charity Princes Take us for Ride Bike jaunt cost £30K

Daily Star – November 10, 2008 – By Joseph Ingram.

PRINCES William and Harry raised just £1,500 on a charity motorbike ride – and set taxpayers back £30,000.

The fun-loving Royals coughed up the minimum amount of cash for the eightday African road adventure. Yet 83 fellow riders dug deep to find an average £3,500 each – despite not having the same multi-millionaire privileges.

Boss of Harry’s charity for Aids orphans to quit

Daily Mail – November 7, 2008 – By Rebecca English.

THE head of Prince Harry’s charity for Aids orphans in Africa is leaving his post, the Mail can reveal.

Geoffrey Matthews will quit Clarence House shortly before Christmas with friends insisting that the situation is ‘as amicable as these things can be’.

Former Irish Guards officer Mr Matthews was brought in from the City to be a ‘project manager’ on a rumoured six-figure salary less than two years ago and was seen as a key member of William and Harry’s private office.

One of his roles is chief executive of Sentebale, the charity set up by Harry in his mother’s memory to help the poverty-stricken kingdom of Lesotho. He was also responsible for organising last summer’s Diana memorial concert.

Sources say that Mr Matthews is a ‘casualty’ of Prince William’s unexpected decision to leave the Army and become an RAF Search and Rescue pilot in January rather than full-time working member of the royal family as previously planned.

Harry Launches Hero Everest Trek

Prince Harry meets service personnel at the new James Bond film premiere

Sky News – November 4, 2008.

Prince Harry is launching an adventure training expedition to the base of Mount Everest for wounded service men and women.

The Prince will today watch injured personnel training on a climbing wall at HM Naval Base Devonport in Plymouth and meet the organisers of the trek.

REDHEAD DEVIL Action man Harry trains to be freefall skydiver

FALL GUY: Prince Harry

The Daily Record – November 3, 2008 – By Mark Smith

PRINCE Harry is training with the Red Devils to become a skydiver. After announcing plans to be an attack helicopter pilot, action man Harry revealed he aims to become a qualified freefall parachutist.

The Red Devils – the elite members of the Parachute Regiment – will instruct him on the Accelerated Free Fall (AFF) course.

In the last fortnight Harry, 24, completed a qualifying jump to reach the first of eight levels that must be passed to gain his Category A skydiving licence.

William and Harry make two-day visit to Cambridge

Princes William and Harry with Professor Julian Dowdeswell at the Scott Polar Research Institute

The Cambridge News – October 30, 2008 – By John Downing.

PRINCE William and Prince Harry are on a two-day visit to Cambridge University to meet experts on the global challenges facing society, the News can reveal. 

The princes are attending a two-day seminar on the social and ecological challenges facing society. 

It is focusing on a number of global trends such as poverty, environmental limits, climate change and security.