PRINCE Harry was once pictured partying at his 21st birthday bash dressed as a Nazi with pals dressed in blackface and one in a KKK outfit.
The shock image came to light as the Duke of Sussex called out “racist” social media users who tweeted abuse after his son Archie was born in the latest instalment of Harry and Meghan Markles bombshell Netflix series that has “deeply hurt” the royal family.
In the fourth episode of Netflix’s ‘Harry and Meghan’, Prince Harry, 38, recalls how a “photograph of a couple with a chimp” was posted by a member of the media, adding: “and at the top it said ‘Royal baby leaves hospital’”.
Harry also said about the aftermath of his son’s birth: “So that was one of the first things that I saw.”
The tweet was posted by long-term former BBC broadcaster Danny Baker, 65, who later apologised and said it was meant as a joke “about royals versus circus animals in posh clothes”.
He was fired by the BBC over the fallout from his tweet, which he said was a “stupid unthinking gag” that he insisted had no racist undertones.
Danny’s tweet showed a black-and-white photograph of a well-dressed man and woman holding hands with a chimpanzee wearing a bowler hat and jacket alongside the caption: “Royal baby leaves hospital.”
It prompted a furious backlash online after the arrival of Britain’s first royal mixed-race baby, with Danny trying to excuse it by saying: “Sorry my gag pic of the little fella in the posh outfit has whipped some up. Never occurred to me because, well, mind not diseased. Soon as those good enough to point out its possible connotations got in touch, down it came. And that’s it. Now stand by for sweary football tweets.”
KING CHARLES WAS FÜHRERIOUS
The pictures are from his 21st bash – in which Olympic triple gold medallist rider Richard Meade seshed until until 5am.
Partygoers claimed they were “not shocked” when Harry rolled up the driveway wearing a Nazi desert uniform, and no one appeared bothered by the general theme of the party itself – natives and colonials. Indeed among the Windsors the subjugation of the colonies appears to be a popular topic: at Prince William’s 21st guests dressed to the theme of Out of Africa the Guardian reported at the time.
After being forced to make a statement apologising in 2005, Prince Harry was rapped and told off by his father King Charles at his his Highgrove estate.
A former boyfriend of Princess Anne said he had thrown the party for his son Harry, 22, a member of the Beaufort hunt, who rides competitively with Zara Phillips, and his siblings James, 23, and Lucy, 21.
Harry did apologise for the gaffe and revealed he met then-Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks to talk through his behaviour.
Harry said: “It was probably one of the biggest mistakes of my life. I felt so ashamed afterwards. All I wanted to do was make it right.”
He added: “I could’ve just ignored it and probably made the same mistakes over and over again in my life. But I learned from that.”
Harry and Meghan – is now streaming on Netflix in the UK and across the world.
