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"  Published in the December 2012 issue Members of the British royal family, in general, come in two standard varieties \u2014 weirdo, like Prince Charles with his vegetable conversations and his desire to be his wife&amp;#039;s tampon; and mannequin, like the queen or Prince William with their amazing ability to remain two-dimensional in a three-dimensional universe. Every so often, however, the line puts out a real person \u2014 one of the lads, like Prince Harry. It&amp;#039;s at least a relief to know that biology is not entirely destiny. Harry&amp;#039;s great-grandmother, the late queen mother, was of this type, too. She liked a smoke and a drink and a day at the racetrack and to surround herself with strapping young Canadian soldiers. When the Nazis bombed Buckingham Palace during the Second World War, she said that she was glad they had so that finally she could look the poor people in the East End of London in the face. In short, she shared the desires and conditions of ordinary citizens, at least in spirit. Harry&amp;#039;s the same way. This year somebody caught him playing strip billiards in Vegas. In England, the press whipped up its usual phony outrage, and the palace apparently punished Harry by suspending his fake Facebook account. It&amp;#039;s disgusting. Strip billiards is why Vegas exists. If you go to Vegas and you don&amp;#039;t find yourself holding a cue, naked, in a room full of strangers, you&amp;#039;ve misunderstood the purpose of that city. Less than a month later, Harry was shipped back to Afghanistan. Here&amp;#039;s the deal: If you are shipped to the earth&amp;#039;s hellhole to kill and possibly to be killed by people you don&amp;#039;t know, you cannot be judged for negligible little Vegas indiscretions. You sure as hell are allowed to have a Facebook account. Everyone in America understands that deal implicitly. That&amp;#039;s why Harry fits in the United States much better than he does in the United Kingdom. Harry basically is an American already. He just had the misfortune to be born into some weird German family in England. SEE ALL THE 2012 AMERICANS OF THE YEAR "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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