• Prince Harry to comic: You don't sound like a black chap

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A Prince being sent on an 'Equality' course.
Spot the contradiction.
This could only happen in the nut-house that the UK has become.
No wonder Johnny Foreigner is laughing at us.
And he's right.

- Gordon M, Gerrards Cross, Bucks

Maybe Carole Thatcher should join him in the retraining exercise.
Unfortunately, Harry, Carole and even Boris are showing that they don't know any better than this.
They may all have made "honest" comments but high profile people such as these need to learn that people nowadays take offence at such descriptions.
Like it or not, we now live in a PC world. If they can't accept that, they sghould stay out of the limelight.

- Andrew, London W1

You couldnt make it up. Oh please keep the Royal Family, the entertainment values are too high to get rid of them.....

- Dc, London

I hope Prince Harry tells them where to stuff their 'Equality and Diversity' Training Course. Such courses are nothing more than Cultural Marxist brainwashing. We really need to make total war on 'political correctness' in this country or we are doomed to live under a fascist dictatorship.

- David Moon, Seaford, East Sussex, UK

I'm still not clear on why Harry Hewitt is regarded as "royal". And why do we need a "royal" family anyway?

- Neil M., london uk,

Trevn at best you've missed the point - a black person, as with a white or asian person will generally have an accent from wherever they grew up/spent a lot of time, be that Newcastle, Scotland, Manchester, Jamaica, the US, Nigeria, etc. The prince saying 'you don't sound like a black chap' suggests that he assumes all blacks come from one place, presumably Africa - which is racist

- Andy, London

Keeping on track:

He does not seem to care or understand that he's in a position of phenomenal influence. People will do as he does whatever he does, simply because of who he is. Even if he is simply appearing to be bigoted, and is not, it doesn't matter, because his behaviour will be modelled by others and distorted by people with stronger leanings. So someone, somewhere, will really suffer.

He's a royal, and should be a paragon of behaviour. No more of this "behind closed doors" or "in private, matey circumstances" rubbish. It gets out, it influences, it strengthens bigotry, it reinforces mini-cultures, so on and so on.

So the repeat training? Hopefully it will work, but I doubt it.

More notably - no-one at all should think or feel like this in a healthy culture.

- Walter, London, Uk

Harry is just taking after his Grand Father !!!

- Toni, Barnet

What a load of cobblers.
Get a life.

- David,Chertsey, Chertsey.UK.

Absolutely agree its time we got rid of the royal family, they have no concept of what its like to live in the real world because everything is handed to them on a silver platter, they live lives of luxury the rest of us could only being to imagine (at our expense!) and are not touched by the everyday problems and realities that the rest of us have to face! They therefor have no grasp of the realities of normal life. They're generally an embarassing disgrace - and thats only the things we hear about, what about all the stuff thats kept quiet!

- Kathy, London

What is the point of this training? he has simply been caught out.

Its a fact of life, get over it and move on.

- Hassan, London

Well said Walter, London. Comments such as these only renew and refresh the narrow-minded bigotry of people who judge others by the colour of their skins. Some correspondents to this column appear not to know the difference between slang terms and offensive terms.

- Neil, Gloucestershire, England.

Walter, london UK....I couldn't have put it better myself...I hope Carol Thatcher reads what you wrote....

- Ali Sichilongo, London

Trevn from Abu Dhabi, I think you could do with some equality education yourself! Harry's continued instances of racism simply underline how out of touch he and the rest of his family are with real people in this country. It's time we got rid of the royals.

- Charlie, Soho, London

I am a proud yorkshireman even though I live in London, I dont understand how people can be offended by something so minor unless your ashamed of your roots yourself. I dont get upset when people make jibes about Yorkshiremen. I suppose I could be worrying about the wrong things in life like earning a living, paying the bills and putting food on the table.

- Graham, London

..I'm sure that anyone coming from Scotland or Newcastle would be offended or at least surprised if they were called jock or geordie by the prince...so that's not a very intelligent comparison.

- 40 Acres+ Mule, London, UK

He does not seem to care or understand that he's in a position of phenomenal influence. People will do as he does whatever he does, simply because of who he is. Even if he is simply appearing to be bigoted, and is not, it doesn't matter, because his behaviour will be modelled by others and distorted by people with stronger leanings. So someone, somewhere, will really suffer.

He's a royal, and should be a paragon of behaviour. No more of this "behind closed doors" or "in private, matey circumstances" rubbish. It gets out, it influences, it strengthens bigotry, it reinforces mini-cultures, so on and so on.

So the repeat training? Hopefully it will work, but I doubt it.

More notably - no-one at all should think or feel like this in a healthy culture.

- Walter, London, UK

It's the PC idiots and diversity stormtroopers who should be attending an intense course on common sense and the real world. Harry has said nothing wrong whatsever. Take someone from Scotland or Newcastle who have lived away from their native cities for two decades. Would they be offended if someone said to them "You don't sound like a jock or a geordie"? Of course not

- Trevn, Abu Dhabi

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