Another lie you are spouting about the Duke. Unless you are just parroting something you read and believed from Facebook, just a bit gullible. The Duke was visiting the school as part of a promo video for the Invictus Games; you know, those games created to support wounded and maimed veterans of wars, much like the original Paralympics at Stoke Mandeville. The full quote was, and obviously directed at a film crew. It's strange that JonnyF decides to focus on the <deleted> word, rather than the words that are deliberately omitted, given the comments from the Duke over the years regarding parts of the press. There is something rather revealing about JonnyF when he reduces the pupil’s remark to merely “<deleted> off”: the omitted words — “There are six cameras in my face” — provide the obvious context and make it quite plausible that the irritation was directed at the film crew rather than Prince Harry. Conveniently removing that context turns a child’s complaint about being filmed into a supposed personal rebuke, which looks less like an attempt to establish what actually happened than to manufacture the most satisfying anti-Harry anecdote possible. Its kind of a version of "if I can't have him, no one can". What is especially striking is the poster’s apparent obliviousness to the child himself: the six cameras in his face scarcely register, while the expletive becomes the entire story. That rather suggests how completely the poster’s intense preoccupation with Harry has come to dominate their reading of events. In this distortion of the truth, the child disappears from the story because JonnyF is apparently far more interested in making Harry the villain. JonnyF's behaviour demonstrates an unusual preoccupation with Harry; whether that preoccupation is driven by hostility, fascination, attraction, or some combination cannot be established from the posts alone. But being attracted to Harry is certainly a possibility.
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