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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m surprised he included the story about mocking the physically disabled matron at his school. He described her body type and said she didn’t make the boys “horny”.

Disgusting. Did I miss any context or nuance or is he really just a run-of-the-mill misogynist? [/quote]

Yes, you missed the point of the anecdote.  It acknowledges the unkindness in retrospect but said that as a kid he didn’t really think of it in terms of its impact on Pat, that he was trying to make his friends laugh and find a reason himself to laugh when he was still so deep in grief about his mothers death.  At the end of the anecdote he notes that even Pat would laugh at him when she turned around and caught him, which he said made him feel good that he could even make the other humorless (in his estimation) Pat laugh.  It also acknowledges that, for as strict and harsh as she was with the boys generally, Pat actually was probably a pretty compassionate and empathetic person because she seemed to understand what Harry was going through and laugh with him rather than punishing him, even though she would have been fully within her rights to do so. [/quote]

If true, this just proves how clueless and entitled he really is. Does he really think the matron was cutting him slack because she felt sorry for him? He never considered that it might be perhaps because he was the grandson of the Queen? That poor woman. What was she supposed to do when she caught a prince mocking her disabilities? It “made him feel good?” SMDH. [/quote]

As noted previously, he details plenty of other discipline he received at school.  Your comments on this book thread are worthless if you haven’t bothered to read the book. [/quote]

He refers to the woman as “miserable” and thinks because she laughed once when she caught him mocking her that he’s exonerated. How many times do you think she went home and cried? You’d think a man his age would have a more mature, less myopic perspective.

As a side note, how do you think the Invictus athletes would feel about this if they read it?[/quote]

Where does he say he was “exonerated” or even that it was ok? [/quote]

The implication, at least my interpretation of this frankly devastating anecdote, is that because he made her laugh once, it wasn’t that bad. Again, this is my take away based on how he framed the story. [/quote]

DP.  You clearly didn’t read the book that closely since it indicated he made her laugh more than once.

It’s also worth noting that this happened when he was 13, in the first year after Diana died.  I would hope that decent people can appreciate how that might skew someone’s behavior. [/quote]

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