BWM - we're in danger of getting mixed up here. Calling someone a name is not the same as using a term of racial abuse.

For instance, you might call me a fat talentless twat and you might well be correct and I might be offended but you can call anyone a fat talentless twat regardless of skin colour. You might be being rude and those who live in airy-fairy land and not the real world might baulk at such terms, but people have been trading insults since our ancestors uttered their first sentence.

Harry wasn't using a nickname, he was using a term based on his skin colour and ethnic origin. You could call me a paki, but of course it'd be meaningless as I'm not asian. I judge this to be a racist word because I've heard my friends called when it was being used pejoratively - what do you suggest I do, turn a blind eye?

So, I still think the Royal Family are a bunch of sponging tossers who should bog off, but I would not say they are a bunch of sponging niggers because that is racially offensive to a large proportion of the population the world over, regardless of however many gangsta rappers or Tarantino films bandy the word about.