British Tabloids Are Feasting On Another Harry Situation

Prince Harry, center, shown at a military parade in 2006, is in trouble again, this time over referring to a fellow army officer as a "Paki" and another as a "raghead." Harry, the younger son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, is third in line to the British throne. (By Anwar Hussein -- Getty Images)

Khan's uncle, Iftakhar Raja, a Briton of Pakistani origin, told the BBC, "We expect better from our royal family, on whom we spend millions and millions of pounds for training and schooling."

Others were more forgiving, saying that while Harry's remark was a mistake, it was said in the context of a military setting where troops frequently use off-color nicknames for each other.

Harry and his older brother, Prince William, are generally popular in Britain. Harry, known as the wilder of the two, has seemed to work on his public image in recent years.

He publicly lamented the army's decision not to send him to a dangerous assignment in Iraq, and reveled in his 10-week deployment to Afghanistan. And he won praise for his poised and moving speech last year on the 10th anniversary of his mother's death in a Paris car crash.

Squeezed in among all the controversy over Harry's latest remarks was another bit of video, an account of which was posted on the Web site of the News of the World and published in the paper, in which Harry makes a joke at the expense of his royal grandmother.

Video shot by another cadet shows Harry pretending to be on the phone talking to the queen and referring to her dogs and her husband, Prince Philip.

"I've got to go, got to go," he says. "Send my love to the corgis and Grandpa. God save you."

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