{"id":83102,"date":"2023-12-15T01:50:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T01:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=83102"},"modified":"2023-12-15T01:50:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T01:50:18","slug":"was-crown-right-to-portray-will-egging-harry-on-to-wear-nazi-costume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/celebrities\/was-crown-right-to-portray-will-egging-harry-on-to-wear-nazi-costume\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Crown right to portray Will egging Harry on to wear Nazi costume?"},"content":{"rendered":"
It was, he admits, one of the ‘biggest mistakes’ of his life.<\/p>\n
Now Harry’s embarrassment over wearing a Nazi uniform to a party has been gleefully recreated by Netflix in the very last episode of The Crown.<\/p>\n
But in this case, the prince’s closeness to the streaming service appears to have paid off. Harry, who has a reported \u00a380million production deal with Netflix, has notably shied away from criticising the series’ increasingly cartoonish plotlines.<\/p>\n
The on-screen portrayal of his Nazi debacle appears to stay close to his own recollection of the incident in his memoir, Spare.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the book, Harry took little in the way of responsibility for his actions, effectively blaming\u00a0Prince William and his then-girlfriend Kate, for egging him on.<\/p>\n
The Crown has the trio \u2013 played by Ed McVey, Luther Ford and Meg Bellamy \u2013 at a costume shop in the Cotswolds, planning for the ‘natives and colonials’ themed party.<\/p>\n
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Harry’s embarrassment over wearing a Nazi uniform to a party has been gleefully recreated by Netflix in the very last episode of The Crown<\/p>\n
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The Crown has the trio \u2013 played by Ed McVey, Luther Ford and Meg Bellamy \u2013 at a costume shop in the Cotswolds, planning for the ‘natives and colonials’ themed party<\/p>\n
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While William is going as a lion, his younger brother is undecided on what to do until coming across a uniform of the Afrika Korps \u2013 Rommel’s troops in North Africa \u2013 complete with swastika armband<\/p>\n
While William is going as a lion, his younger brother is undecided on what to do until coming across a uniform of the Afrika Korps \u2013 Rommel’s troops in North Africa \u2013 complete with swastika armband.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Germany had an empire, didn’t they?’ he asks in the scene. ‘What about this?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Kate replies. ‘Maybe cover the swastika?’ But William comes to his brother’s defence.<\/p>\n
‘Oh, come on. Wearing the outfit doesn’t make him a Nazi. Isn’t that the joke?’ he adds. In the mirror, a gleeful Harry, then aged 20, does the ‘Heil Hitler’ salute as he makes his choice.<\/p>\n
At the party, hosted by Olympic showjumper Richard Meade, Harry is photographed by two shocked guests who sell the pictures to The Sun.<\/p>\n
The Royal Family are then shown examining the front pages in horror, while the young prince shouts obscenities as he realises his mistake.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a later scene, the two brothers row over the scandal at supper with their father.<\/p>\n
‘You were all for the uniform, egging me on,’ Harry hit out. ‘Suddenly you’re Mr Morality. Stabbing me in the back… how many faces does this man have?’\u00a0<\/p>\n
William then says: ‘I’m not sure I like who you’re turning into.’<\/p>\n
‘Not sure I like who you’ve been,’ Harry angrily replies.<\/p>\n
In Spare, there is no suggestion that William and Kate were ever at the fancy dress shop at the same time. But Harry does very much paint himself as a victim, claiming the pair promised to help him find a suitable outfit.<\/p>\n
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In a later scene, the two brothers row over the scandal at supper with their father<\/p>\n
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At the party, hosted by Olympic showjumper Richard Meade, Harry is photographed by two shocked guests who sell the pictures to The Sun<\/p>\n
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The Royal Family are then shown examining the front pages in horror, while the young prince shouts obscenities as he realises his mistake.<\/p>\n
The prince says he called them to discuss his options, explaining it was a toss-up between the uniform of an RAF pilot or a Nazi.<\/p>\n
He wrote: ‘I phoned Willy and Kate, asked what they thought. Nazi uniform, they said.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
He describes taking it home and trying it on for them \u2013 adding a ‘proper Hitler’ moustache \u2013 and ‘they both howled’.<\/p>\n
He said William was ‘sympathetic’ at the resulting furore but ‘there wasn’t much to say’. His father was surprisingly understanding, but a public apology was deemed necessary.<\/p>\n
The Crown’s award-winning writer, Peter Morgan, has insisted he hasn’t read ‘a word’ of Spare, adding: ‘I didn’t want his voice to inhabit my thinking too much. I’ve got a lot of sympathy with him… but I didn’t want to read his book.’<\/p>\n