Unsurprisingly, the moment Prince Harry regrets the most is the time he dressed up as a Nazi. Harry apologized for the poor choice in 2005 per The New York Times, but still struggles with it. During an interview for the Netflix series, Harry opened up about the extraordinarily poor choice of costume and why he still lives with regret to this day.
The prince described the scandal as “probably one of the biggest mistakes of my life” when reminiscing about that incident, per The Independent. “In this family, sometimes you’re part of the problem rather than part of the solution,” Harry said. “There is a huge level of unconscious bias,” he continued, suggesting that his upbringing sheltered and warped him to the point that he thought a Nazi uniform would be an appropriate costume. The bad press and backlash inspired Harry to learn more about antisemitism and racism so as to understand where he went wrong. “We sat down and spoke to the chief rabbi in London, which had a profound impact on me,” he explained. “I went to Berlin and spoke to a Holocaust survivor. I could’ve just ignored it and probably made the same mistakes in my life over and over again in my life, but I learnt from that.”
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While it may be one of his worst, the Nazi costume would be far from Prince Harry’s last scandal. Even with the release of this docuseries, he’s facing yet more criticism.
