"It's sick": Prince Harry disturbed with macabre card game about Queen
Created: 01/01/2023 16:51
By: Jonas Erbas
Does Prince Harry own a deck of cards the Queen is teasing?
Attentive viewers of the "Harry & Meghan" documentary want to have made a corresponding discovery – much to the annoyance of a Royals expert!
Montecito/London – Does Prince Harry (38) like to laugh privately at the expense of Queen Elizabeth II († 96), Princess Kate (40) and other relatives?
It seems so, at least according to some observant viewers of the controversial Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan.
Does Prince Harry Own Politically Incorrect Party Game?
- "Harry & Meghan" viewers make discovery
Anyone who has a penchant for black humor is well served with the board game "Cards Against Humanity": Thanks to its - depending on your feelings - politically incorrect answer cards, with which questions or gaps in texts are completed , the game from the USA quickly became a successful party hit.
This has apparently even gotten through to Prince Harry.
In a scene from the Netflix documentary "Harry & Meghan", viewers in the prince's room claim to have discovered the card game "Cards Against Humanity".
Because the Queen is also made fun of in it, a Royals expert publicly criticized the 38-year-old in a column (photomontage) © Screenshot/Netflix/Harry & Meghan & ZUMA Wire/Imago
Because the "Harry & Meghan" documentary not only provides a lot of criticism, but also interesting insights: In a scene in which Prince Harry shows himself in uniform, viewers with a particularly keen eye want the distinctive, pitch-black packaging of the macabre card game in the background have discovered.
As reported
by nau.ch
,
"Cards Against Humanity" also includes playing cards that talk about "Queen Elizabeth's flawless A***" or "Kate Middleton's colonoscopy"
.
"Cards Against Humanity" - from the student idea to the game hit:
As early as 2008, eight high school students in the US state of Illinois came up with the basic idea behind "Card Against Humanity", which was then called "Cardenfreude".
A crowdfunding campaign in 2010 raised enough money to print the game;
In 2011, a separate company was founded for the production and marketing, Cards Against Humanity LLC.
In the USA and other countries, the game was repeatedly criticized for its controversial content (Holocaust, sexism...), but it still became a bestseller.
Because of Queen jokes in controversial card game – Royals expert fires against Prince Harry
But while Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle (41), especially after their break with the British royal family, are likely to take such statements with humor, they are met with indignant incomprehension from their old homeland:
“This game is sick.
It's ridiculous and absolutely tasteless whether you're a monarchist or not
," complains Royals expert Ingrid Seward (74) in her
The Sun
column.
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The "unfunny" card game should never have been seen in the Netflix documentary, according to her unequivocal verdict.
But the intimate look behind the scenes also has other consequences: After the documentary was released, Meghan Markle's first handbag as Royal literally went through the roof.
Sources used:
nau.ch, thesun.co.uk, "Harry & Meghan" (documentary series; Netflix)