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Prince Harry has been engaged in a number of public controversies over the years, but the one that stands out the most is the time he dressed up as a Nazi for Halloween in 2005.
The 20-year-old prince, who has already repented profusely for his actions, largely attributes their consequences to his brother Prince William and sister-in-law Catherine, Princess of Wales, in his new book, Spare. According to an excerpt acquired by Page Six, Harry remembers wondering whether to dress as a Nazi or a pilot for the costume party with a “Native and Colonial” theme and asking William and Kate for help.
“I phoned Willy and Kate, asked what they thought. Nazi uniform, they said,” Harry allegedly writes, saying he then tried the costume on in front of them. “They both howled. Worse than Willy’s leotard outfit! Way more ridiculous! Which, again, was the point.”
Harry went with the Nazi appearance, and a photo of him in a white military shirt and red swastika armband with a drink and a cigarette quickly made headlines in British newspapers and throughout the world.
Coincidentally, this occurred two weeks before the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The Duke of Sussex called the move “one of the biggest mistakes of my life” and acknowledges that he “felt so ashamed afterward” in the Netflix docuseries he and wife Duchess Meghan produced together, Harry & Meghan.
He claims that in an effort to remedy the wrongs, he spoke with the top rabbi in London and visited Berlin to talk with a Holocaust survivor.
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