"I'm sure Harry gets more than his fair share of 'names' for being a Prince and I'm also sure that he comes in for a fair amount of unfair hostility from some in the army, simply because he was born into the Royal Family, not something he ever asked to happen"

My heart bleeds for him - life sure is tough. It must be difficult for him dealing with the injustice of being born into wealth and privilege.

I'm constantly amazed by the leeway shown to the Royal Family - they can even insult a sizeable proportion of their own citizens (who are paying to keep the buggers rich) and still ordinary people leap to their defence.

"maybe he calls Harry by his own choice of nickname."

Let's get this straight - he wasn't using a nickname, he described the soldier as "Ah, our little Paki friend, Ahmed.". This isn't his nickname, it's a description, a name he's using to describe the racial origins of the person in question.

In this case, we're supposed to let racism slide because poor old Harry can't shake his imperialist attitude to those poor old colonials - at least 'Sooty' knows his place and damn well stays there, Ahmed's family have had the audacity to suggest they were offended, never mind all the asians that his comment might

As I've said before, if that had been said in an ordinary office he would have been sacked, and quite rightly.

Bollocks to him and his ilk.