Prince Harry’s newly released tell-all memoir is sending shockwaves through the Royal Family, painting a picture of a Family at odds with both Himself and Meghan. Here are some of the more bizarre claims made in the new book 🧵
HARRY: CHARLES HAD HABIT OF “ACTING LIKE ROYALTY” - WHICH MADE CONNECTING WITH “DAD” EMOTIONALLY DIFFICULT
Harry had trouble connecting with his father. Often, at events or parades, he would approach the now King to discuss Diana, to be met with orders to “be quiet” or “shut up”
“TOXIC CULTURE OF PRIVILEGE” AT PALACE - LATE QUEEN SNIFFED MEGHAN “UP AND DOWN LIKE A DOG” ON FIRST MEETING HER
Harry calls out Royal “sense of entitlement”. In one bizarre incident on first meeting Meghan, the Late Queen sniffed her “at the neck”. “Nobody around said anything”
WILLIAM AND KATE “TRICKED” HARRY INTO WEARING NAZI UNIFORM “NO LESS THAN 7 TIMES”
William and Kate allegedly encouraged Harry to wear a Nazi uniform on no less than 7 occasions, telling him it would be “massively funny,” and to “get really into it,” which he duly did “to fit in”
HARRY IN BIZARRE CLAIM DIANA BOUGHT HARRY NINTENDO WII, NETFLIX SUBSCRIPTION
In the Book, Harry speaks fondly of his mother, the Late Princess of Wales. He claims, bizarrely, she bought him a Wii and Netflix, which is impossible as they both released a decade after her death
LATE DUKE OF EDINBURGH MADE RACIST COMMENTS ABOUT MEGHAN, TEASED HARRY ABOUT ‘JUNGLE FEVER’
Allegedly, Prince Philip would forget Meghan’s name and call her the ‘Bingbong Girl’. In private he teased Harry and told him he “fumbled around with a few Spear Chuckers in his time too”
HARRY AGREED TO DATE WITH MEGHAN BECAUSE HE THOUGHT SHE WAS SAME PERSON AS AVATAR ACTRESS ZOE SALDANA
Harry began dating Meghan because he thought she was Zoe Saldana, who starred as ‘Neytiri’ in James Cameron’s Hit Movie ‘Avatar’, who Harry describes watching as “really erotic”
HARRY: “NO PATH TO PEACE IN SYRIA WHILE ASSAD STILL LEADS”
In a bizarre digression, Harry devotes some 15 pages of the new book to his thoughts on the Syrian Conflict, concluding “Assad is a butcher” who “simply has to go. There can’t be a lasting peace with him still in charge”
“OUT-OF-TOUCH” CAMILLA, AND TWO OTHER SENIOR ROYALS, SENT ARCHIE ‘GOLLIWOG’ TOYS
In an attempt to broker peace after Harry’s estrangement from the Royals on the birth of his son, Camilla, and two other nameless “Senior Royals”, sent him a hamper of presents - including Golliwogs
CAMILLA WOULD HISS UNCONTROLLABLY AT MENTION OF DIANA, GOAD HARRY WITH TUNNEL-THEMED PUNS
Harry claims the now Queen Consort has an uncontrollable tic where she hisses at the mention of Diana. She often made jokes to Harry about ‘tunnelvision’ or ‘light at the end of the tunnel’
PRINCE HARRY WOULD HAVE “VIGOROUS WANK” WHENEVER HE KILLED SOMEONE - BUT MEGHAN SHOWED HIM “ERROR OF HIS WAYS”
To relieve tension everytime he killed a man in the army, Harry would escape to a toilet to “masturbate”. He had no idea this was problematic until “Meghan taught him”
Molenbeek is one of the most infamous municipalities in Europe - right at the edge of the Belgian and European Union capital and known both for its very large migrant community and for producing a large number of Jihadis. I went on a tour 🧵
Molenbeek is the largest migrant enclave in Brussels and one of maybe most known on the European continent given its location in the EU capital. Infamously it has been the home of many Islamists; eg the 2004 Madrid Bombers, Paris 2015 terrorists and Brussels 2017 Station Bomber
Just to note, Brussels today is probably the most ‘diverse’ capital in Europe - even more so than London or Paris. It really is transformed now so when you do go to the most ‘diverse’ neighbourhood of already the most ‘diverse’ city the jump is not as sudden as you might expect
Impressions from recent visit to Copenhagen and the ways in which the city is and is not changing in the 2020’s 🧵
This is not a complaining thread, more just to describe Copenhagen as it is today and the extent to which Copenhagen is or is not changing. ‘TLDR’ - Copenhagen’s reputation as about as Basically Fine as you can get is well-deserved but it is too soon to say it is out of the woods
To get straight to the point, Copenhagen is a very nice city. There are certain parts of the city that in the summer sun look so nice that it can actually be annoying - in the sense of “why don’t we have this elsewhere?” A high human capital city too, hard to beat on that front
Impressions from recent visit to Stockholm and the ways in which the city is and is not changing in the 2020’s 🧵
This is not a complaining thread, more just to describe Stockholm as it is today and the extent to which Stockholm is or is not changing. ‘TLDR’ - Stockholm is a modern, pleasant, high human capital city which to a large extent lets it shrug off its large recent migrant influxes
For a city that spends nine long months in the dark Nordic winter Stockholm is probably about ‘as good as you can get’. Well-organised, developed. Actually the Nordic capitals are very grand, pleasant if cold. Not sort of slightly grotty like Berlin, Brussels, Eastern Europe etc
The year is 2050. Changing demographics have Latinamerica-fied your politics - like in Latin America western countries are now condemned to neverending lurching between two ideological extremes that then only further radicalise in reaction to each other. Which side do you choose?
America will fulfil its destiny and become the penultimate Latin American country in the Americas, before Canada which will first become a Subcontinental country and then a Latin American country after the Latinos move up into it from America. Trump is the first American Caudillo
This is the politics you get if you de-Basically Fine-ify your society with decades upon decades of Ideology-maxxing
HOW NATIVES THINK - WHY MANY PEOPLE SEEM TO THINK SO IRRATIONALLY 🧵
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl was an early 20th century French anthropologist writing before many of the taboos academic anthropology has accumulated today. In his book ‘How Natives Think’ he explores why so many people - and for him especially so many ‘non-civilised’ peoples - seem to be so superstitious. He tries to explain what it is that is happening inside the minds of (he calls them) ‘natives’ when, for example, they appear to have difficulty understanding causality in anything other than in terms of spirits or djinns. Though the work is not without its critics (eg it has been called reductive, eurocentric and generalising) it is an interesting example of taboo-free study on the ubiquity of a kind of magical thinking or djinnbrain
Lévy-Bruhl’s core claim is that so-called “primitive” peoples do not think illogically as such, but instead according to different rules. Reasoning is primarily shaped by emotion, symbolism and collective belief, not contradiction or empirical causation
That is, their thinking is guided by collective representations - shared mental images (like totems, taboos, spirits) that have a deep emotional force. See: the power of djinn in some societies (ie Djinnbrain). These guide thought and action without needing justification