"In Tahiti, we still call you Prince Harry. But at Surf Ranch, it's my brother. It was an honour to have you surf with me and Kelly Slater."
In the early Californian autumn of 2024, the former Tahitian bodyboarder turned surf coach to the world’s rich and beautiful Raimana Van Bastolaerposted a short clip of exiled royal Prince Harry deftly hunting tubes at the Kelly Slater wave pool in Lemoore.
The coach, Raimana Van Bastolaer, whose rags to riches story has been detailed several thousand times on these pages, shared the moment with the forty-year-old red-headed prodigal son who is sometimes called the Prince of Wails and who first started surfing five years ago after a gift of surfing lessons from his wife, the actress Meghan Markle.
Harry showed remarkable poise, deftly lowering his lower ballast to the deck to maintain a terrific stability in the man-made tubes, something that eludes many for an entire lifetime.
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Now, it can be revealed, or only partly revealed since the photo has been deleted, that Harry took his five-year-old kid Archie, currently eighth in line to the British throne and one slot ahead of disgraced Prince Andrew, to the Slater Ranch to experience the special joys of being coaxed, and coached, into barrels by Raimana.
In the deleted photo, we see Harry and Archie or, to use the lil man’s correct title, Prince Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, sitting on Raimana’s jetski, waiting for the train to roll down its track and create the famous perfect wave.
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Raimana wrote, “In Tahiti, we still call you Prince Harry. But at Surf Ranch, it’s my brother. It was an honour to have you surf with me and Kelly Slater.
“Just as Pa instructed, I ran to the water’s edge, sang to them. Serenaded them. Arooo. No answer. Meg joined me, and sang to them, and now of course they sang back. She really is magic, I thought. Even the seals know it.”
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So great to see one of the Brit welfare babies showing their commoners how a life on the Dole has endless possibilities
Didn’t Slater make a comment a couple years back about Harry not being Charles real son?
FREE RAIMANA!!!
there was nobody drunk here last night and this 20k miles from my house. cease&desist orders issued. need windows?
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I sell windows, what ya need?
washers~
copper…minus pyrtridiums…more drilling mud~
I’ve got some pennies
remember the juke box v the slot machine/
juke box…
perfort back to the the slot machine & the music machines
makes 0.02 to me…
Gorilla, some desert magic to kick off your 2025:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTdweOQET6A
got Aaron Rodgers on the phone calling collect from Puerto Costa…sweat room. take it?
Looks like Raimana has gone heavy on the crumpets and light on the tea.
they’re searching. still!
Supporting indigenous populations, while remaining nostalgic to colonialism could make many rejoice. Smiles everywhere.
Whilst employing local help, to support them and their families, huzzah!
Always apropos time for the colonialist to get that photo op or group Shaka😃🤙🏽 https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
So much to take in with this picture.
If I had known that surfing would be overrun by degenerate rich cunts I would have taken up Polo instead!
must start at the bottom…fuck. Guinness and hash to go…”We’re short on both~”
ah water polo???
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has any normal person – no hook ups, not connected, surfed surf ranch?
Me and Chas!
Unless you have a photo with Raimana, were you really there?
Disinvited is better than uninvited
where’s your Capt’s log?
Banned is better than Canned
I thought you n Chasssy got it on a freebie media surf day.
Or did you actually pay cash monies from you own pockets to surf it ?
Cos if ya didn’t pay, it’s still a ‘connected hookup’, regardless of how it came about…
True. I stand corrected.
He said “normal”…
In California we still call you a transplant.
donar’s. and to settle all loose ends, here’s Tori Amos. no quarters.
Harry should give Lowers a shot