Prince Harry has professed that he was unfamiliar with the fact that P*** was a derogatory term when he employed the racial epithet to refer to another serviceman of Pakistani origin.
Prince Harry Claims He Was Unaware That ‘P***’ Was A Racist Term-‘I Had Grown Isolated From The Real World And Wrapped In Privilege’
In an excerpt from his memoir entitled Spare, the Duke of Sussex indicated that he had heard numerous people utilise the word when he was young and never noticed anybody looking uncomfortable or offended, and that he did not think of them as being racist.
In his comments, Harry wrote: “And I didn’t know anything about unconscious biases either. I was twenty-one years old, I had grown isolated from the real world and wrapped in privilege.
“And I believed that word was the same as ‘Yankee.’ Harmless.” In 2009, Harry expressed regret after a video surfaced showing him utilising the offensive word to refer to his Sandhurst colleague Ahmed Raza Khan.
Harry explained he had used the term without any ill intent after the recording, which was taken in 2006, was made public.
In his book, Harry reminisced about the video and revealed he had recorded it when he had free time prior to boarding a plane to Cyprus with the other cadets.
He declared that he was recording each member of the military and saying remarks about them. He added: “When I got to my partner and good friend Ahmed Raza Kahn, a Pakistani, I said, ”Ah, our little P*** friend.”
Harry distributed the video to a fellow cadet who was in the process of creating an ‘end-of-year video’, yet it soon began to spread, eventually being sold to the News of the World, leading to a huge uproar.
According to the Duke, he was accused of not taking anything away from the Nazi episode in 2005, with people calling him foolish or a ‘party boy’, and that he was racist. It is fair to say that this was not Harry’s finest moment.
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