By Robert Jobson and Ryan Sabey, 10\/01\/2009<\/p>\n
PRINCE Harry made shock racist remarks on a video, the News of the World can reveal. <\/strong><\/p>\n The soldier prince pours shame on the Royal Family as he calls an Asian squaddie \u201cour little Paki friend\u201d and tells another officer cadet jokingly wearing a camouflage veil off duty: \u201cF*** me, you look like a raghead\u201d\u2013an offensive term for an Arab.<\/p>\n Harry, 24, third in line to the throne, also astonishingly mocks the Queen\u2013the Commander- in-Chief of the British Army\u2013while acting out a mobile phone call to her in front of other cadets at a field camp in Cyprus.<\/p>\n They laugh out loud as the disrespectful Prince pretends to get bored talking to his grandmother and dismissively hangs up on her saying: \u201cI\u2019ve got to go, got to go, bye. God Save You… yeah, that\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n He even jokes about the colour of his pubic hair with one soldier in the middle of giving orders. His sick remarks will not only have infuriated the Queen but could also increase tensions with Islamic groups in the UK who were outraged that he went to fight and kill Muslims in Afghanistan. The film was made in 2006, just a year after Harry was shamed for wearing a Nazi swastika at a fancy dress party and forced to make a grovelling apology.<\/p>\n Flight <\/strong><\/p>\n It begins as the Prince\u2013about to embark on training as a combat helicopter pilot\u2013joins other cadets gathering at an airport for their flight to Cyprus.<\/p>\n He is behind the camcorder, panning around bored or sleeping comrades waiting for their flight. The camera pans over other snoozing soldiers, with Harry commenting \u201cnow that is bad admin, bad admin\u201d before he suddenly stops and zooms in on the face of an unsuspecting Asian cadet yards away. After arriving in Cyprus, Harry is on exercise with his platoon when he makes his second offensive racist comment.<\/p>\n Once again he is behind the camera, filming in the dark.<\/p>\n One of his comrades has put what appears to be some camouflage over his head and as he looks up at the lens Harry says: \u201cIt\u2019s Dan the Man… F*** me, you look like a raghead. Look at me. Look at me…. look away.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s hot, very hot. Let me quickly show you the camp, let me show you the pointless tasks,\u201d he says. The camcorder is passed to another squaddie. A cadet then introduces Harry as \u201cMr Wales\u201c and says the prince is \u201cgoing to attempt to deliver a set of deliberate night attack orders in 30 seconds\u201d. \u201cI\u2019ve got to go, got to go. Send my love to the corgis. Send my love to the corgis and Grandpa\u201d before making his \u201cGod Save You\u201d insult.<\/p>\n Afterwards he pops a cigarette in his mouth before barking orders about an upcoming exercise, saying \u201cwe will be wearing smocks, body armour, helmet, and all the usual s**t\u201d. After giving the orders the exercise descends into farce when the Prince, wielding an army knife, asks his men if there are any questions. Harry replies: \u201cSorry?\u201d<\/p>\n He is then asked the question again and replies: \u201cYes, they are\u201d to laughter from the rest.<\/p>\n Highs <\/strong><\/p>\n Later Harry, wielding the camera again, asks another member of the squad to talk through the exercise they have just done.<\/p>\n He asks for \u201cyour ups and downs in the exercise. Highs and lows. Good people, bad people. Good points, bad points.\u201d Off camera, he adds: \u201cHow do you feel? Gay? Queer on the side?\u201c<\/p>\n Then Harry asks another cadet: \u201cAnything you want to say? There\u2019s no secrets here. Quickly just tell me what the f ** k is going on?\u201c<\/p>\n The sequence ends with a reference to the hit Channel 4 show Big Brother: \u201cWell that\u2019s all from sandpit heaven in Cyprus. What you\u2019ll next see is probably the diary. Big Brother wants you. Ciao.\u201d Other scenes in the video diary show Harry enjoying party nights out with his pals on manouevres. Harry\u2019s racist slur came a year after he was widely criticised over the Nazi costume incident. He was forced to issue an apology saying: \u201cI am very sorry if I have caused any offence. It was a poor choice of costume and I apologise.\u201d<\/p>\n But the Prince\u2019s tongue could get him into even deeper trouble this time.<\/p>\n Harry, who was promoted to the rank of Lieutentant after serving in Afghanistan, is in clear breach of British Army regulations. Officers guilty of racism within the Army face \u2018major administrative action\u2019 for misconduct and a range of punishments from written censure to being booted out of the service. Racist <\/strong><\/p>\n In March 2007 The Ministry of Defence said it would investigate claims of racist behaviour towards black Commonwealth soldiers.<\/p>\n The move came as Belize-born Marlon Clancy announced he was setting up an independent union for 6,000 Commonwealth soldiers in the army to help them deal with racism. Clancy told the BBC he had complained without success about racist bullying and intimidation for the seven years of his British army service. He claimed he was attacked by squaddies dressed as the Ku Klux Klan who called him \u2018nigger\u2019. Muslim recruits who understand the languages of southern Afghanistan are highly prized as intelligence officers to interpret Taliban radio chatter.<\/p>\n Staff officers have insisted the Army\u2019s policy must be \u2019zero tolerance to all forms of discrimination\u2019. He claimed the soldiers\u2019 shameful view was: \u201cYou\u2019re niggers. You come over here and take all the married quarters and taking up the space… You need to go back to your country.\u201d (c) NEWS OF THE WORLD<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Robert Jobson and Ryan Sabey, 10\/01\/2009 PRINCE Harry made shock racist remarks on a video, the News of the World can reveal. 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\nLast night Clarence House issued an APOLOGY for Harry\u2019s behaviour in the shocking video diary\u2013in which Harry is often behind the camera giving a foul-mouthed running commentary.<\/p>\n
\nAnd they will mortify Army chiefs trying to recruit soldiers from Britian\u2019s ethnic minorities.<\/p>\n
\nAs he films one cadet lying on the departure lounge floor, he says: \u201cThis is luxury. And here is our first example of possibly how to admin yourself (slang for looking after your kit and keeping yourself in good order) in the terminal awaiting the RAF.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cAnybody else around here?… Ah, our little Paki friend… Ahmed,\u201d he whispers.<\/p>\n
\nThe video\u2013 obtained by the News of the World\u2013then shows the Prince on manouevres in Cyprus with his comrades. Harry plays on-screen reporter, turning the video on himself as he walks along. Then still a Sandhurst military cadet, he sarcastically mocks the exercise they have been given to do.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cMaybe not pointless tasks, we have been given by the real Company Sergeant Major, which apparently is all very much worthwhile towards our education in the field.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe camera focuses on the Prince as he sits pretending to finish a call to the Queen.<\/p>\n
\nOne of the squad cheekily remarks: \u201cAre your pubes ginger too?\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThroughout the film, Harry remarks several times: \u201cAll is good in the Empire.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIn one scene the Prince\u2013now on the wagon\u2013mockingly mouths to another soldier \u201cI love you\u201d before kissing him on the cheek and licking his face. On the same night he is seen holding two fingers to his head, implying he wants to shoot himself because he is so bored by the Greek dancers.<\/p>\n
\nIn January 2005 the Prince, then 20, wore a swastika on a German Afrika Korps uniform to a fancy dress party.<\/p>\n
\nIn 2004 a report by the Armed Forces Directorate of Operations Capability, found 40 per cent of soldiers said there was racism in the Army and 30 per cent believed racial harassment existed.<\/p>\n
\nForces top brass are stepping up attempts to attract more soldiers from ethnic minorities in the fight against terrorism.<\/p>\n
\nBut Harry\u2019s offhand use of the word \u2019Paki\u2019 shows that among Sandhurst\u2019s officer cadets\u2013the Generals of the future\u2013racist terms are far from taboo. Last September three Army instructors were suspended after an undercover BBC investigation into the Infantry Training Centre at Catterick, N Yorks. During the programme, one recruit was secretly filmed yelling \u2019Paki\u2019 as he plunged his bayonet into a target dummy.
\nIn 2007, a Jamaican-born soldier, identified only by his first name Wayne, said he faced regular racist abuse from non-commissioned and senior officers.<\/p>\n
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