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On Thursday, it was revealed that Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, was fighting in Afghanistan. The British press had kept it quiet due to a media blackout, but The Drudge Report, an American website famous for breaking the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky story, revealed the truth.

Prince Harry was then immediately brought back to the UK, due to the MOD deciding that it would be too great a risk to keep him out in a war zone fighting the Taleban.

Harry arrived home on Saturday morning, landing at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire at 11.29am with around 170 other soldiers. Two of the men he was travelling with were severely injured, which prompted Harry to insist “”Don’t call me a hero, those are the heroes.”

He spoke to the media about his experiences in the war torn country, saying:

You do what you have to do, what’s necessary to save your own guys.

“If you need to drop a bomb, worst case scenario then you will, but then that’s just the way it is.

“It’s not nice to drop bombs but to save lives that’s what happens. You do what you have to do to save your own guys.”

He also insisted that he’d be more than happy to go back, claiming he wants to sit down with his colonel and talk through various options.

It was also revealed that Prince William could soon be serving with the navy, as he will soon be commissioned and serve on a frigate or destroyer in one of the world’s trouble spots.

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Almost a year to the day that there was speculation that Prince Harry would be going to Iraq to fight with his A Squadron of The Blues and Royals, part of the Household Cavalry Regiment, it has emerged that Charles and Diana’s son has been fighting in Afghanistan since before Christmas.

He is reported to have been working in Helmand province of the war torn country, as an Air Controller, responsible for covering front line troops. It has also been confirmed that he has been personally involved in clashes with the Taleban.

He is currently two and a half months in to a four month deployment, although now that the news is out, army chiefs have a tough decision to see if they can risk him staying out there, or whether he should be brought back prematurely.

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Who would have thunk it? The Queen, yes that dear old 80 year old woman who somehow manages to get her face on our stamps, is a closet gamer, and enjoys a bit of Wii every now and again.

According to reports this week, she became fascinated with the Nintendo Wii console after seeing her grandson William playing with the one he received from on-off girlfriend Kate Middleton for Christmas. So she did what any self respecting grandmother and pensioner would do, and had a go.

The game in question was Wii Sports, and she was said to specifically enjoy the ten pin bowling mini game.

According to Blorge, a royal insider told tabloid news reporters that:

“When she saw William playing a game after lunch at Sandringham she thought the Nintendo looked tremendous fun and begged to join in. His only difficulty now is prising it away from the Queen’s clutches. She showed all the signs of becoming a Nintendo addict.”

I just can’t see this happening so it’s either made up entirely or an invention by Nintendo to keep their console in the news.

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Prince William and on off girlfriend Kate Middleton were chased in their car by paparazzi photographers on Friday morning. The pair were leaving Boujis nightclub in London when the photographers saw their chance to grab the first picture of the pair together again after they got back together.

The couple had allowed themselves to photographed as they left the club, both looking relaxed and happy. But when the couple drove away in their Range Rover, a number of paparazzi photographers chased them in cars, on motorcycles and on foot.

It seems inconceivable that this would happen in the same week that the Princess Diana inquest began. The crash that killed the Princess as well as boyfriend Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul is thought to be partly because the couple were trying to speed away from the pack of chasing paparazzi.

Have the photographers and the press at large not learned a thing in the intervening ten years?

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This is a letter I found while surfing around the Interweb a while back. It’s a letter that Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star John Cleese jokingly wrote to the citizens of America, in which he claims the United States back for us Brits.

It’s a brilliantly witty piece of satirical comedy from the master of the surreal, with references to your great leader as well as ours.

NB: I changed the name of the Prime Minister from Blair to Brown to keep it current. Have a read, have a laugh, if you’re British and a bit stupid be aware that this isn’t real, and if you’re American and have no sense of humour, well, screw you!

To the citizens of the United States of America

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The inquest in to the deaths of both Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed has begun, and I can’t help thinking it’s a bit pointless at this stage in proceedings.

We all know what in essence killed the royal princess, Mohamed Al-Fayed’s son Dodi and bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones. They were travelling in a car which entered a tunnel in Paris travelling too fast and crashed. What is there to investigate?

It’s now over a decade since the incident which killed Diana, and surely any information and details we’re going to find out about the crash have already been found out, and mulled over by many experts?

There are eleven people on the jury who are charged with deciding if the deaths were an accident or a murder orchestrated by Prince Philip and carried out by Britain’s secret services.

Any father who loses a son has a right to investigate and push for a thorough sifting through of all the evidence, but this secret service murder theory has so little factual evidence behind it, there really isn’t the case to keep it going on this long.

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Today saw the memorial service take place to commemorate 10 years since Princess Diana died in a car crash.

The memorial service took place at the Guards’ Chapel near Buckingham Palace with both Princes William and Harry in attendance.

Prince Harry said:-

“To lose a parent so suddenly at such a young age, as others have experienced, is indescribably shocking and sad,”

“It was an event which changed our lives forever, as it must have done for everyone who lost someone that night,”

“But what is far more important to us now and into the future is that we remember our mother as she would wish to be remembered, as she was: fun-loving, generous, down to earth and entirely genuine.”

The Bishop of London gave a sermon at the memorial and used it to call for an end to the sniping between Diana’s fans and detractors. The debate carries on as to how Diana died, and who was to blame. There is also continuing views and disagreements on how the Royal Family dealt with the event of Diana’s death in the days after it happened.

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The long awaited ‘Concert for Diana’ finally came to fruition on Sunday, and I have mixed feelings on the whole event. First off, the idea of it and the cause is excellent. To mark ten years since Princess Diana’s death, a concert featuring a mix of some of her favourite musicians and a new breed of stars vying to pay tribute to her is very fitting. But in my opinion there were some major problems with the whole thing.

For starters, some of the performers seemed weird choices. I can understand Elton John, Bryan Ferry, and The Feeling, but why were Pharrell Williams and Kanye West there? They just seemed slightly out of place, with their music a world away from what Diana stood for and was associated with.

Regardless of which bands and singers were on stage, the next thing to annoy me was the crowd. For 63,000 people, they really did produce a lacklustre display of singing, cheering and getting involved with the on stage performers. At one point, I thought half of the audience had fallen asleep, it was so quiet. If I’d have been there, I would have got in to the spirit of it, and had a bit of a party, although be it respectful. I think the problem was the crowd were of such diverse ages, with the people who seemed to get tickets being mostly “of an age“, to put it politely.
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The programme that has been debated up and down the country before it was aired was finally shown tonight, and as I expected the controversy was completely out of sync with the actual footage shown. For a change, this programme promised to get the facts from the people who were actually there, the photographers and journalists who were first on the scene, and it made for a refreshing change to hear it from the horses mouth.

In the UK, and around the world, the thought of a programme revisiting the facts behind the Princes Diana crash sparked outrage and revulsion. The main sticking point was the prospect of Channel 4 displaying pictures from the crash scene, some showing Diana receiving treatment. Even Diana’s sons William and Harry had become involved and asked that her dignity be respected. Channel 4 decided to go ahead with the programme, after pronouncing that Diana’s face would not be shown, and they stuck to their word.
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Debating: Prince William breaking up with Kate Middleton

Reading: The Quest by Wilbur Smith

Playing: TMNT: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on multiple formats

Viewing: Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry And Paul on BBC1

Watching: Blades Of Glory starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder

Listening: Give It To Me by Timbaland, Nelly Furtado & Timberlake

Buying: Half price Easter eggs for sale everywhere

Searching: Author Kurt Vonnegut who died after a long illness

Anticipating: The release of the new Ben & Jerrys flavour ice cream

Learning: Only 3% of adults get the recommended 8 hours sleep a night

Prince William, Kate Middleton, The Quest, Wilbur Smith, TMNT, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry And Paul, Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse, Blades Of Glory, Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Give It To Me, Timbaland, Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake, Easter Eggs, Kurt Vonnegut, Ben And Jerrys

It seems Ms Middleton, Prince William’s long term girlfriend will not be becoming a princess after all (that is unless Harry cracks on to her). It was announced on Saturday that the couple had reached an amicable agreement to end the 2 year relationship.
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