Prince Harry dressing up as a Nazi has been condemned as "highly insulting" by a Southend rabbi.

Harry was last night forced to apologise after it was revealed he attended a friend's birthday party wearing a swastika and the desert uniform of the German Afrika Korps.

Rabbi Mendel Lew, of Southend, was shocked by the news, especially as it is only a few weeks before Holocaust remembrance day on January 27.

He said: "This is very sad and very insulting, not only to our community but to anyone who remembers the Holocaust.

"I think he means it as a joke, but the reality is very different."

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