Harry the 'Bullet magnet'

moose1am · 02-19-07, 12:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Man, I like this guy. He's old school British.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe...raq/index.html

I agree with Neil. This guy is a Man now. I have a lot more respect for Harry. He is growing up to be a true leader. A true Leader leads from the front not the back of the line.

Boris · 02-19-07, 02:00 PM

A little OT, but what Linton mentioned got me wiki-ing a bit, and I was surprised to find the Prince Phillip isn't British either... and even more surprised to find that he was born in Greece, into the Royal Family of Greece and Denmark (who I also had no idea were connected). His name was Prince Philippos Andreou.
No wonder the tabloids find the royals so interesting.

Also... the offspring of the Windsors (lizzie and phil) are actually officially called Mountbatten-Windsor, Mountbatten being taken from Philippos's mother's side, who was German (Go figure), and is the Anglicised version of the name (was Battenberg).

Now this only sparked my fancy, because I did a number of ship skins for GWX. Some of you might have spotted some pink destroyers. This was called Mountbatten pink, named after Earl Louis Mountbatten, who was an Admiral in the RN at the time, and thought it was cool to paint some ships pink. As I suspected, he is related, and is infact Phil's uncle.

mr chris · 02-19-07, 02:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by moose1am

A true Leader leads from the front not the back of the line.

Well that rules Harry out then as his role on op telic 10 will most likely be in a camp in barsa behind a desk.

Though i have to say that im very impressed to see he acutaly wants to get out on a OP Tour which for a person of his staure is very rare. Well done to the guy, i just wished people would leave him alone so he can get on with his job.

02-19-07, 02:00 PM	#2
Boris Sea Lord Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Hamburg, Germany Posts: 1,691 Downloads: 41 Uploads: 0	A little OT, but what Linton mentioned got me wiki-ing a bit, and I was surprised to find the Prince Phillip isn't British either... and even more surprised to find that he was born in Greece, into the Royal Family of Greece and Denmark (who I also had no idea were connected). His name was Prince Philippos Andreou. No wonder the tabloids find the royals so interesting. Also... the offspring of the Windsors (lizzie and phil) are actually officially called Mountbatten-Windsor, Mountbatten being taken from Philippos's mother's side, who was German (Go figure), and is the Anglicised version of the name (was Battenberg). Now this only sparked my fancy, because I did a number of ship skins for GWX. Some of you might have spotted some pink destroyers. This was called Mountbatten pink, named after Earl Louis Mountbatten, who was an Admiral in the RN at the time, and thought it was cool to paint some ships pink. As I suspected, he is related, and is infact Phil's uncle. Last edited by Boris; 02-19-07 at 02:13 PM.