{"id":3031,"date":"2008-04-21T08:06:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T08:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/prince-william-allegedly-misused-copter\/3031\/"},"modified":"2008-04-21T08:06:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T08:06:10","slug":"prince-william-allegedly-misused-copter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/prince-william-allegedly-misused-copter\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William allegedly misused copter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"2\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/prince-harry.jpg\" hspace=\"2\" alt=\"prince-harry.jpg\" title=\"prince-harry.jpg\" \/>UPI &#8212; The propriety of Britain&#8217;s Prince William using a military helicopter to visit his girlfriend is being questioned, a political party spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal Democrat defense spokesman Nick Harvey said the accusations the prince used Kate Middleton&#8217;s backyard for a two-hour series of spins, turns, landings and takeoffs will undoubtedly be seen as a public relations nightmare for the 25-year-old member of the royal family, The Mail on Sunday reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The prince will look back on this and realize it was a PR own goal,&#8221; Harvey said, meaning he would see it as a public relations black eye.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to leave a lot of people wondering where the sense of priority lies if very serious helicopters are being made available for this sort of thing at a time when they are in such extreme need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Defense Ministry spokesman said Saturday the prince had permission to land in the field behind his girlfriend&#8217;s house in the county of Berkshire this month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Battlefield helicopters routinely practice landing in fields and confined spaces away from their airfields as a vital part of their training for operations,&#8221; the unidentified spokesman told the Mail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These highly honed skills are used daily in conflict zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPI &#8212; The propriety of Britain&#8217;s Prince William using a military helicopter to visit his girlfriend is being questioned, a political party spokesman said. Liberal Democrat defense spokesman Nick Harvey said the accusations the prince used Kate Middleton&#8217;s backyard for a two-hour series of spins, turns, landings and takeoffs will undoubtedly be seen as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,18,1615],"tags":[55],"class_list":{"0":"post-3031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-uk-news","9":"tag-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}