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Prince Harry has let down his ancestors with his antics this week. ysl shoes sale Amateur. What would Edward VII have thought about the king cavorting with some half-naked floozies in Vegas? Where's the wine, cigars and twenty-course meals? Or Charles II? To him the idea that a royal prince could spend a weekend with some young ladies without impregnating at least a couple would be a disgrace. The Merry Monarch sired countless illegitimate children, among them the ancestors of Harry through his mother, not to mention half the English upper classes, but he was only the most famous of the pleasure-loving princes.

Most famously Harry’s namesake Prince Hal led a riotous youth, yves saint laurent outlet but grew up to be a serious, pious military hero. At Harry’s age Hal became king and embarked on his short but dashing reign, and perhaps now might be the time for Harry to do likewise.

But he’s still young, single and ought to enjoy his life while he can before all levity and fun is crushed under the burdens of adult responsibility, and I would guess that most people feel that his only sin was to get caught. The party seems to have been fairly good-natured, and the Prince is entitled to let his hair down. Considering that his parents’ break-up was played out in front of the entire world, that he’s been subject to witless jokes about his parentage throughout his life (even though he strongly resembles his paternal grandfather and it is extremely rare for cuckoldry to be inflicted on high-status males, in this species as any other), and that his mother was effectively driven to her death by the same sorts of people now publishing his escapades, he seems to have grown into a very kind, affable and balanced man.

On top of this, society has always allowed a certain leeway to yves saint laurent shoes servicemen who fight for their country; it’s one of the many small social rewards such men receive in return for risking their lives, standing a tiptoe above the rest of us.

No doubt he has embarrassed the Army and the Royal Family, but he has still emerged with more honour (if not dignity) than the other parties in this affair. What kind of person, you have to wonder, would betray hospitality and sell a nude picture to a newspaper? I like to think that, although I could certainly do with £10, yves saint laurent 2012 000 and would probably sink to many sordid indignities, I wouldn’t sacrifice honour.