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Overview
Prince Harry Prince Harry has apologised for dressing up as a Nazi for a friend's birthday party at the weekend.
This lesson looks at some of the issues surrounding the Royal Family being role models.
Learning aims
Icebreaker
Read out this story to the class.
HARRY APOLOGISES FOR NAZI BLUNDER
Harry at the party select this link for the story
Ask the class:
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Main activity
The Queen has no direct say in law making, but the Monarch is the Head of State and gives the Royal Assent to all new legislation.
As Prince Harry is third in line to the throne (after Prince Charles and Prince William), he is an important member of the Royal Family.
Ask students:
Students could devise their own rules for the Royal Family. For example:
Extension activity
Imagine a member of the Royal Family has broken one of your rules. What punishment, if any, should they receive? Students write down their thoughts.
They could write their thoughts in the style of a news report, like the one read out in class. They might want to imagine that a new post, that of "Royal Conduct Judge" has been created. If such a post existed, what would they say?
Plenary
Recap on the main teaching points and allow students to present the views they most and least agree with and their codes of conduct.
Turn this into an assembly
Ask volunteers to present arguments for and against a code of conduct for the Royal Family.
Ask for comments in response to the introductory questions.
Teachers' Background
PRINCE HARRY
Prince Harry helps with the packing of aid to the Maldives following the Asian tsunami select this link for our Prince Harry quiz select this link for our guide to Prince Harry
Harry is third in line to the throne after his dad, Prince Charles, and his brother Prince William.
Below is a list of members of the Royal Family and the order in which they would become King or Queen if our current Queen, Elizabeth II, died or stepped down. It is called the line of royal succession.
He was born on 15 September, 1984.
He lives at Highgrove in Doughton, Gloucestershire.
His brother William is two years older than him.
His dad is Prince Charles.
His mum, Princess Diana, died in a car crash in Paris in 1997.
Prince Charles and Diana married in 1981 and divorced in 1996.
Harry's grandmother is the Queen, Elizabeth II.
Harry's good works
Following in the footsteps of his mum, Princess Diana, Harry has visited hospital patients, Aids victims, homeless people, orphans, young offenders and worked on schemes to improve people's health in poorer countries.
On his 18th birthday, he asked for the money made from the sale of his birthday photos to go to charity.
The charity called Merlin is not well-known, but they help save millions of people affected by wars and disease in countries like Africa and Afghanistan.
Other Royal blunders
Tom Parker-Bowles, son of Prince Charles's friend Camilla, and Lord Frederick Windsor, son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, have both admitted using cocaine - as did Queen Victoria, though her usage was purely for medicinal purposes.
Prince Charles once ordered a cherry brandy during an illicit visit to a pub after temporarily escaping from his public school, Gordonstoun, in the Scottish highlands, at the age of 14.
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