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Breakfast with England's Prince Harry...
Posted by SweetViolet • 6/18/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: cape town, celeb, celebrity, prince, prince harry, royal
I'm not a celeb watcher. My mother was one of those egregious stage mothers and was forever ferrying me up to LA for auditions and such and so I met rather a few celebs when I was just a little kid...too little to be particularly impressed with them (I met a movie cowboy once and the only think I was interested in was finding out where his horse was!).
To this day, I tend to be unfazed by celebs but Sunday morning I could have sworn that Prince Harry was having breakfast at the table next to mine!
sweetvioletsa.blogspot.com/2009/06/south-pole-and-breakfast-with-prince.htm...
Have you ever had a close encounter with a celeb or a royal?
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The chef at Southpole sent pictures...I posted them on the blog...you gotta go see 'em!
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Was he wearing his Nazi uniform?-
The pictures are of the food at the Southpole restaurant, a simply awesome place we discovered this week.
Harry...if it was him...was wearing a white T shirt and was surrounded by a bunch of girls.
(PS...that was a costume for a costume party. If my husband dressed up like Henry VIII for a costume party, would people think he had beheaded two wives for real??) -
it isn't the same. Wearing a nazi uniform, specially for some1 in his position and specially for a party is insensitive to the jews and shows that he is (ugly and) ignorant! -
and the fact that he has also been known to say racist things changes the relevance of wearing a Nazi uniform...
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I disagree. He was much younger and a brash kid.
I would hate to have the whole world judge me based on a youthful lapse in judgment.
I've been to costume parties where people have shown up as pregnant nuns, gay monks, hookers and American Indians. If you're going to get your nose out of joint over a kid wearing a costume from an era that predates the birth of either of his parents, and on the grounds that someone will be offended, then you'd better start writing up a list of politically incorrect costumes.
It was in bad taste...as is a woman in a nun's habit with a pillow underneath to simulate pregnancy...but I seriously doubt it was anything more. -
www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/123700/Watch-Prince-Harrys-racist-outbursts-o...
rightttttttttttttttttt, he's ONLY judged by that outfit? -
He does seem to be following in the pattern of his grandfather.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7822883.stm -
It seems to me that he is less of a serious racist and more of a total douchebag. Just because you're a royal doesn't mean you are smart or interesting. He hasn't said or done anything worse than your typical stupid frat boy. Just watch Borat and you'll see what kind of d-bags the typical frat boy college kid is.
Monarchies are ridiculous anyway. Almost as ridiculous as George W. Bush getting accepted to Yale as a legacy and then buying himself a presidency. -
Stillthinking, I've seen borat lots of times (even own 2 copies, i find it so funny) I think the frat boys might not be racist, they are prejudiced and what is that beside a diluted form of racism?
Bush is an ass. -
Don't forget him telling Stephen K Amos that he didn't "sound like a black chap"...
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Again, pretty typical douche bag. He is probably more than a little bit racist, but in all likelihood, will outgrow it when he stops being a total spoiled a-hole.
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When exactly do princes stop being spoiled? And looking at his granddad Prince "Don't stay in China too long or you'll get all slitty-eyed" Philip I doubt he'll grow out of it!
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yes back in the uk when I lived near the TV studios, and we have a well known comedian live in town. The trick to not get fazed is to follow the rule my mum taught me, "if you ever bump into the queen just remember she poops too".
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I laughed out loud at that one!! Yer mum sounds like a hoot!
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In primary school we were taught how to curtsy just in case we were presented to the Queen. I found the whole idea quite intimidating but mum helped. Thereafter I had visions of the queen sitting on the netty like everyone else lol!
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I'm so old that when I was growing up, the curtsy was part of every little girl's repertoire! We were required to curtsy to any adult to whom we were introduced by our elders, and god forbid you should call an adult by their first name!
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Re: curtsy
Ditto that teaching prevailed in the back country area where I was raised for decades after it died out in the cities.
Re: Have you ever had a close encounter with a celeb or a royal?
I watched the Queen drive by in a carriage waving to the crowd on the sidewalks during a Commonwealth Games parade once and that's it.
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I keep trying to read but you're page isn't loading up for me. To answer your question "Have you ever had a close encounter with a celeb or a royal?"
I shook hands with President Bill Clinton, Coretta Scott King, met Reverand Jesse Jackson on two or three occasions, met Colin Powell, Went to a Dogstar concert (Keanu Reeves band). I'm sure there are others but it's not hitting me yet.
My thing is community service so I often find myself meeting government officials.-
My mother was a stage mother, so back in the 50s I had to do my little curtsy for a bunch of names. The only one I remember clearly from back then was Lucille Ball, who was very nice to me.
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Shirley, try this sweetvioletsa.blogspot.com/
It is the main blog page rather than the link to that particular entry. That entry is the first one on the page, though. -
My mom didn't know anybody. I've mostly done it all on my little lonesome.
In the end they are just people. The difference between you and I is a camera and media hype and maybe acting classes.
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My mother didn't know anybody, either. But she was determined that I was going to be the next Shirley Temple and ran me ragged in pursuit of that dream. Every time there was an audition for a tot in a movie or TV show, she'd paint me up like a tiny tart and drag me up to LA (we lived in San Diego). I took singing lessons and tap lessons and was constantly being shoved onto stages at talent shows and county fairs (as an opening act), and I was a regular on one of those Saturday morning children's shows on TV, so I came across quite a few "names" over time. Too bad I can't remember most of them anymore!
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You just reminded me! I met Miss Molly from Romper Room! I don't remember it though. My mom said I was thrilled to meet her.
You sound like you were miserable but I bet it taught a few life lessons. I believe everything has a lesson in it some where. -
I am one of those "silver lining" people...although sometimes it takes a LOT of distance to finally be able to see it!
The survival lessons I learned from being raised by a mercurial, volatile, completely self-absorbed mother came in very handy during my career as an executive assistant in Corporate America! I specialized in "difficult bosses" (and got paid a premium to put up with people who ordinarily couldn't keep a secretary for more than a few days) and even in topsy-turvy Silicon Valley, always had a valuable "extra" skill to sell! -
You are fascinating. I don't say that to many people. I'm hoping my Internet gets fixed soon.
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Wow! We have some things in common too. I also specialized in difficult bosses - I was one ... lol
I was sent into "problem" workplaces to determine what the problems were and how to address them. I listened to every sob story ever told by a neurotic employee whose mind was rarely on their work. Then I kicked a$$.
- I actually expected and insisted that my staff to work during working hours, and I fired all of those who did not cut it.
I outlawed all personal phone calls (emergency notifications only allowed) during working hours. You have a lunch hour and two coffee breaks so make outgoing calls on your own time, thank you.
I banned all boyfriends, family members, friends, children, caregivers, etc. from the workplace. (We carry no insurance for that and you cannot work when you are entertaining. )
I did not pay for any time off from work for medical, dental, legal, etc. appointments. Hello! Read your employment contract. You only work two days a week so arrange to have your appointments on your own time, thank you.
I then worked all the jobs myself, rewrote the jib descriptions, and retrained all the staff.
I was really difficult.
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TT...by difficult bosses, I am talking about the woman who screams at members of her staff in the hallway in front of other employees...she had 6 secretaries in as many months. I worked for her for six months until HER boss poached me for himself...then acted as support for her new admin to help her to learn how to get along with the woman and anticipate and deflect her tantrums.
I am talking about the man whose temper was so bad, his staff was afraid of him and whose last secretary fled the building in tears, never to return, after one morning.
Or the VP of Legal who had an annual staff turnover rate of greater than 100% because she sabotaged and undermined her staff. The corporation gave $10,000 signature authority to staff at their level, but she refused to allow me to process their approved invoices until she reviewed them. Now, she gave me $30 signature authority for office supplies, but would not let the head of the patent department put through an invoice from an outside firm for $7.50! Then, she was "too busy" to review those invoices, so they just piled up...at the time I left (after being her temp for two years...ILLEGAL!!) there was more than $1M in approved, but unpaid, past due invoices in her office. She had had 9 secretaries in 8 months prior to my arrival and I stayed for two years. She never converted me to permanent because, according to the HR lady, she could not intimidate me.
THOSE kinds of difficult bosses...
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I have met a few celeb's in my time. Although I tend to be in awe of their talents, I am usually unfazed by the person in the flesh. For example, I would be just as excited to meet a famous (talented) musician as I would be to meet a local talented musician, because I respect their talent and their trade.
I did check out the post, the pictures of the food, that was from the restaraunt? YUM! (I didn't see pics of the prince, t hough )-
no pics of the prince...neither of us had a camera with us because we were just having breakfast before the book fair...not one of those outings where you think you might see someone famous or something worth shooting!
Yes, those are pics from the restaurant. I sent an email to their website, asking for permission to use one of their pics and the chef sent me those pics! And believe me, the food tastes as good as it looks! -
I'm so very hungry now They look delicious....... That cake thingy with the chocolate/sugar wisps on the top...oh dear god....
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Anok, this place is a five minute drive from my house! Dinner for two last night was R488...$48.80...including drinks and tip. Expensive by local standards, but damned cheap, by American prices for what was truly a fine, fine meal!
This man can COOK! -
Oh my, the post and the photos were excellent. My mouth was watering and the prices sound ridiculously low, given what we would pay for that meal in Canada.
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You should have gotten pictures and then sold them to TMZ, lol. -
Hiya SV in SA,
I met the Queen when I was 6 year old, 4 feet away from her, plus Lady Dian but sadly at her funeral finally I was Lord Lieutenants Cadet and went to Buckingham palace a few years back....
Hope all good with you,
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Way cool! I'd love to meet the Queen...but I doubt she'd love to meet me.
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Wow sweetviolet - you are a dark horse indeed!
"England's Prince Harry" - is there another one?!
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VERY close encounter with Chris de Burgh (wink wink nudge nudge) -
The mere mention of "Prince Harry" is enough to make most people vomit...The Royal Family shoud give back all the money and resources their Pirate ancestors plundered by killing hundreds of million of Earthlings...
Isn't Prince Harry the moron caught on camera wearing a nazi uniform at a halloween party ?-
See my comment above regarding costumes and the follies of youth.
I don't think that costume was any more offensive than a pregnant nun or dressing as the devil or any other notorious public figure. It was in bad taste, yes, but how many of us exhibited good taste 24/7 when we were kids?
As far as the Royal Family "giving back," I think that's an absurd idea. If you apply the theory behind that even-handedly, we'll give America back to the Native Americans, all the black people will go back to Africa, all the white people will go back to Europe, etc. etc.
Get over it...all the original players are long dead and their descendants unknown...the world has moved on...you might want to consider doing the same. -
Can we at least replace queen elizabeth's picture on commonwealth countries' money with John Lennon or Mick Jagger ?
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I was coming out of Union Station, walking towards the bridge over the Chicago River. There's a wide patio that usually had a homeless guy playing the saxophone and maybe someone dressed in a gorilla suit handing out leaflets. This day, there was also a tall guy in a black coat. There was a small group of people around him and I stopped to listen. He was running for senator. I had never heard of him, but I wished him good luck.
It must have worked; he's our president now.-
Great story! I know that saxophone and I know that gorilla!
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Oh! I'd rather have that experience than breakfast with the prince!
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Um...my brother's name is William, but my parents have called him Bill since he was a baby. Same with Harry...his parents started calling him Harry when he was an infant, so that is how he is known. Don't you think it is rather arrogant to presume to tell people to call a person by a name other than the one to which he has answered since infancy?
You are correct about Prince Phillip, but you offer no evidence, anecdotal or otherwise, to indicate that Harry is following in his grandfather's footsteps. Absent such evidence and without qualifying your remarks as being merely your own opinion, what you have written could easily qualify as libel. I would request that if you wish to post something libellous, please open your own thread to do so and do not contaminate those started by others.
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I read the post earlier in the day (so much earlier that it was actually yesterday!). You describe Southpole and its food so very well that I'd like to pay a visit or two!-
I got an email from the chef's mother yesterday, thanking me for my blog post! How sweet is that?
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Well, you deserve many thanks. It's like a restaurant review done right. And how nice of the chef to allow you to use the photos.
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I have seen Chef Ramsay doing his jogging on south bank of Melbourne. His face looks like dehydrated car tyres. Yet, there were sexy ladies screaming at him yelling "cute!"-
Maybe they were sexy, nearsighted ladies.
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Maybe a new genetic condition affecting poor visual acuity or premature cataract in these ladies
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Gordon Ramsay has a restaurant here in Cape Town. I refuse to go.
He is so rude and abusive to his staff, I don't think I could enjoy a meal knowing it was produced by fearful and browbeaten underlings. Even if GR isn't personally supervising the preparation, I simply cannot, in good conscience, put my money into the pocket of such a detestable excuse for a human being, no matter HOW good the food might be!
My husband, who is Hindu, agrees about staying away but for another reason: he says that because of Ramsay's temperament, the food would have bad karma.
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Apparently he is a three Michellin Star Chef. Despite his ill temper and bad antics, I do wonder why his cooking is so famous well before he becomes a celebrity chef.
He is said to open a restaurant in my home town - Melbourne where his presence is attracting bad publicity involving him calling a TV presenter a pig. I guess that this is not a good self promoting strategy...
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Well, maybe his karma is catching up with him...one can only hope.
I dislike it when people are given a pass for bad behaviour because they possess some kind of talent, whether it is on the sports field, the silver screen, or in the kitchen. The man is a prat and I refuse to put any of my money in his pocket...and my husband doesn't want to eat food contaminated by bad karma!
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