NEXT TO APOLOGISE: MEL BROOKS

Kevin Myers on Prince Hitler:

Poor Prince Harry. How could he have foreseen that the kitsch Nazi imagery that has made The Producers such a smash-hit in the West End would cause such ructions when he playfully adopted it himself? Such a naïve and unworldly youngster could not possibly have guessed that the same fancy dress that is hilarious on a London stage, when worn at a private party would embroil him in an international scandal.

Demands for Harry's shame-faced apology are insanely excessive. It's not as though the Prince is a Nazi, or supports Nazism; he wasn't wearing the costume to make a point, or to express solidarity with a murderous dictatorship. That sort of thing is best left to Ted Turner, Barbara Walters, Kevin Costner, Jack Nicholson, Naomi Campbell, Steven Spielberg, Yoko Ono, Les Moonves, Tom Freston, Graydon Carter, Oliver Stone ...

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