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”
Goodbye Rishi Sunak. Once described as “The Prime Minister you could most imagine playing Mario Kart with”, in another Britain with no Immigration Crisis he could have been a fairly endearing novelty PM - but we don’t live in that Britain
During a visit to Singapore in 2011, Tony Blair is asked the million-dollar question - “Why are you so committed to multiculturalism? Why introduce division into your country like that? Isn’t it better to be homogenous like Japan?”
YMMV how much of an ideologue you think Blair actually is but his professed reasoning here is ‘post-ideological’. His steelman position is that some mass migration is an inevitability in an increasingly globalised world and it is better to pragmatically embrace it than prevent it
He also maintains that embracing immigration allows you to select for talented human capital and that for all the doom-mongers decrying the inevitability of low level political conflict that will arise from immigration actually places that accept it will likely be basically fine
Tony Blair talks about how much he admires and learnt from Lee Kuan Yew and his Pragmatic style of Government - and how he decided to go and see Lee in Singapore despite how disliked Lee was by Blair’s political and ideological allies
Lee just asked, “why are you here?”
“Don’t look upon Government as a branch of politics, look upon it as its own professional discipline”
Lee Kuan Yew’s Mostly Competent Pragmatism and Tony Blair’s Mostly Competent Pragmatism with Gay Race Communist Characteristics two versions of highly competent pragmatism
Lee Kuan Yew at about the same time, roughly around the height of Blair’s popularity, explaining why Britain had declined - for all of Blair’s Lee Kuan Yew-esque Pragmatism Blair had some well-documented ideological blindspots
Driving in the Third World often feels like playing a real life version of Mario Kart - the roads are narrow potholed obstacle courses full of comedy characters driving comedy vehicles who swerve around as if driving on ice or avoiding banana peels. Third World roads are frequently unpleasant death traps because of certain systemic problems that they seem to have in common, you’d can’t just drive down them like a regular highway and mentally switch to autopilot - you have to be constantly attuned to your environment around you to avoid accidents
Some Common Features of Third Word Roads:
• The roads are single lane, (probably because it’s too expensive to build more lanes but there might be other reasons,) which means the major highway between a Country’s two major cities will be filled vehicles packed up right next to each other with very little room for overtaking - mostly endless caravans of trucks driving very slowly for hundreds of miles
• People drive at either 20mph or 90mph, there’s very little inbetween. You’ll either be overtaken by cars speeding past you like they’re racing the Monaco Grand Prix or you’ll be stuck behind a truck that you could probably cycle quicker than. There is often officially a speed limit but it might as well not exist unless Police are nearby in which case it only sometimes exists if they feel like shaking you down or trying to get you to you appear in court unless you give them some money to buy lunch
The highlight of Kenya’s National Museum is small ethnographic section that feels as if it were curated by Arthur Gobineau. Panels detailing Kenya’s ethnic groups that read like they were nonchalantly written by a C19th race scientist. Would you ever see this in a Western museum?
Map of distribution of ethnicities in Kenya and the appearances of Swahili peoples of Zanzibar, Lamu, Mombasa and Pate
Cannot recall many of these kinds of displays in museums in Europe - but then, why would Kenyans in their own country have the racial hang-ups Westerners have?
There is a great room which is just paintings of all of Kenya’s different ethnicities in their traditional clothes and environments next to small plaques detailing a few of their ‘racial characteristics’. Really Hakanian, Nemetsian experience. Highly recommended
Migrant Houses in Rwanda - Thread about My Visit 🧵
Overall:
• The houses are nice, especially by African standards
• Rwanda is safe and one of the best African Countries
• There are not that many, only enough for a few hundred migrants
• Since probably not many people will be sent there the developers are trying to sell most of them
The houses are located about 15 minutes outside Kigali city centre. They’re not so far out it takes too long to get into the centre. Kigali though is spread out along a series of hills each of which is its own self-contained neighbourhood or suburb. The development’s ‘hill neighbourhood’ is called Karama. It doesn’t have every modern amenity but you can get them easily if you want
Kigali itself is obviously an African city and so has some of the features that go along with that, but as African cities go it’s arguably close to the best on the continent - which is high praise. It is safe, clean and modern by African standards, not a Third World Shithole city. In terms of ‘safety’ you’re really not going to have a problem here, you can walk around at night as a woman. Pretty much everyone I met spoke English fairly well. I would even say that it would be ‘racist’ to say Rwanda as a country is unsafe, Paul Kagame’s mostly competent pragmatic government has done a very good job given the country’s genocide was just 30 years and given that it is in Africa