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Prince Harry is a ‘drunk jackal’ who kills innocent Afghans, feared warlord says
One of Afghanistan’s most feared warlords has made a withering attack on Prince Harry, who has spent Christmas serving in the country, labelling the prince a “jackal” who was “drunk” while hunting innocent Afghans.
In a rare and exclusive interview with The Daily Telegraph, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who has been designated a global terrorist by the United States, heaped insults on the Prince and pledged to carry out more attacks before the UK’s withdrawal in 2014.
He said “the British Prince comes to Afghanistan to kill innocent Afghans while he is drunk. He wants to hunt down Mujaheddin with his helicopter rockets without any shame. But he does not understand this simple fact that the hunting of Afghan lions and eagles is not that easy! Jackals cannot hunt lions.” (John Stillwell - Pool/Getty Images)
Emotional end to Diamond Jubilee celebrations as hundreds of thousands cheer Queen’s appearance on palace balcony
The Queen waved from her Buckingham Palace balcony to the cheering masses on Tuesday and thanked millions of well-wishers at the end of four days of spectacular Diamond Jubilee celebrations marking her 60th year on the throne.
Hundreds of thousands of people cheered, sang patriotic songs and waved Union Jack flags outside Buckingham Palace at the finale of festivities for the Diamond Jubilee, only the second to be celebrated by a British monarch. (Photos: AFP Photo/Getty Images; AP; Reuters)
If you didn’t get enough of the royal family yesterday …
It wasn’t much of a race, but then it really couldn’t have been as the world’s fastest man and Britain’s Prince Harry met up on a track Tuesday in the Jamaican capital.
The prince got off to a false start and was about 50 meters down the track as Usain Bolt bent over with laughter. The Olympic medalist then jogged up to Harry, making one of his signature skyward points for a crowd of onlookers at the University of the West Indies in the Jamaican capital.
Charles, Camilla return to Canada for Queen’s jubilee, William and Kate head to Tuvalu
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla will tour Canada next year, visiting New Brunswick, Ontario and Saskatchewan to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s diamond jubilee.
Following in the footsteps of his son William and the Prince’s new wife Kate Middleton, who toured Canada in the Summer, Charles and Camilla are expected to arrive in May as part of a series of global tours by members of Britain’s royal family to mark the Queen’s 60 years on the throne.
Photos from day one of Kate and William’s Canadian tour
Kate Middleton: Paper doll princess
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge arrives in Ottawa Thursday, with a reported 40-plus planned costume changes and her hairdresser James Pryce on hand for the eight-day cross-country visit. The Duchess could eschew the steamer trunks by picking up Canadian favourites after she lands, so we’ve put together a few suggestions for her itinerary.
Photos: Duke and Duchess of Cambridge make first official royal engagement
Prince William and his new wife Catherine laughed and smiled as they mingled with celebrity guests at their first official engagement in the gardens of Kensington Palace Thursday.
Wearing a shimmering, dusty-pink cap-sleeve gown by Jenny Packham, the new Duchess of Cambridge and her husband were guests of honour at a lavish gala dinner hosted by financier Arpad Busson for his children’s charity ARK
Long live the monarchy
Barbara Kay: In modern democracies we tend to forget that monarchies have been the norm since time immemorial, and the younger Republican nations are the exceptions. All tribalistic people striving to bond as distinct, purposeful entities yearn for an anointed figurehead (“Give Us a King!” 1 Samuel 8:1-22). After centuries, you cannot separate the ancestral dancers from the historical dance.
A billion people watched Charles and Diana marry, the overwhelming majority of them non-Britons. Now Kate Middleton will soon be the most talked-about woman in the world. According to a study by the Texas-based Global Language Monitor, when all Internet, social media, print and other citations are compiled, “Kate Middleton is set to eclipse Princess Di as the media star of the royal family.”
(Illustration by Steve Murray)
