Prince Harry asks pardon for 'Paki' and 'Raghead' slur

Britain's Prince Harry has issued a public apology for using racist and offensive language to describe members of his army platoon.

Prince Harry has apologized after leaked video footage from 2006 showed him making a racial slur against an army colleague from Pakistan.

Harry made the racial comments in 2006 while filming other cadets sleeping in the departure lounge of an airport terminal waiting to go to Cyprus for training.

The army lieutenant in the Household Cavalry's Blues and Royals labeled one colleague as "our little Paki friend".

Then spotting a cadet wearing a headscarf, Harry said, "you look like a raghead".

St. James's Palace — the office of Harry and his elder brother Prince William — said on Saturday that Harry was sorry for any offense caused by his use of the word "Paki".

"Prince Harry fully understands how offensive this term can be, and is extremely sorry for any offense his words might cause," spokesman Patrick Harrison said in a statement.

Prince Harry is third in line to the British throne and is the younger son of late princess Diana.

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