Prince Harry arrives at NAF El Centro; Controversy follows

[The Northerner]

EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA- Captain Harry Wales, as he is known, arrived in El Centro. Buckingham Palace said on Friday that the British Army Captain arrived at Naval Air Facility El Centro. Prince Harry will be training to fly Apache Helicopters in the desert conditions of Southeastern California that closely resemble conditions in Afghanistan.

Harry is among 20 British Army students that will be participating in the training. The training will end at an Air Force Station in Gila Bend, Arizona. According to officials at NAF El Centro, he will not receive any special treatment and will be treated as any other soldier training in the program.

Meanwhile the BBC sparked some controversy around El Centro when the opening shot of their television report showed a bearded man sitting in an old recliner in front of a building with grafitti on the door. There was litter around the dusty, dirty landscape the reporter called El Centro "Hardly a setting for a royal visit".

El Centro City Councilman Jon Edney said, "It's unfortunate a shot like that was used." It (the video image) certainly isn't representative of the community as a whole". Mr. Edney who is an El Centro real estate broker, went on to say "I manage over 1,000 properties in Imperial County and I don't know where that place would be located."

In response, viewers are posting beautiful pictures of El Centro on The KSWT News 13 Facebook page www.facebook.com/kswt13. News 13 will be sharing these photos with viewers during weather reports.

Source: http://www.kswt.com/story/15645635/prince-harry-arrives-to-naf-el-centro-controversy-follows

[virgogal]

1. BBC snob eom

[izquierdista]

2. Third world America

Don't laugh too hard Brits. You have your own team working hard to bring you down to the level shown in the photo.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. "it is - Exactly the - setting for a royal visit".

there, fixed it for the BBC.

[ananda]

4. Are they ashamed of the name Windsor?

What's with that Wales name?

On the other hand, I guess it should be Battenberg.

[WillowTree]

5. No, his grandfather's name is Mountbatten, His grandmother is a Windsor.

I believe that I read somewhere that the legal last name would be Mountbatten-Windsor.

But the British royals usually use the moniker of their titles as their family names. When Chuckles became the Prince of Whales, by tradition his last name became "Wales" and thus, that would be the last name that his sons would also use.