However, it is fictitious
Harry’s DJ Ötzi confession causes laughter
Prince Harry makes headlines in Austria with his biography. The problem: His alleged passion for DJ Ötzi’s music was just a joke on a meme site.
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Prince Harry is said to be a big DJ Ötzi fan – at least that’s what the Austrian media claim.
The memoirs of Prince Harry (38) have it all: on more than 500 pages he unpacks about the royal family and has been making headlines for two weeks without interruption. But not every one of these touted revelations is true — or even comes from the book. Austrian media reported that DJ Ötzi’s “Burger Dance” (52) gave Prince Harry strength.
The problem: DJ Ötzi and his music do not appear anywhere in the biography. Instead, media such as “Heute.at”, “Oe24” and the “Tiroler Tageszeitung” only relied on research based on a meme from the Instagram account “galerie.arschgeweih”.
«The ‘Burger Dance’ gave us the strength»
The meme page, which has half a million followers, posted a made-up quote in which the Duke of Sussex says: “My brother was so cruel to us. We felt hopeless. But the ‘Burger Dance’ gave us the strength to keep going and not to give up. The emotional choreography in particular encourages us to stand up once more and stand up to the British royal family.” Apparently, some editors found these words to be sufficiently credible that they did not have to be compared with the biography.
The meme makers themselves were surprised at the consequences of their satirical post. You write on Instagram: “From the category ‘Things we never thought we’d have to clarify’: We recently posted a meme in which we wrote that Prince Harry is a secret DJ Ötzi Ultra. Now it comes: This information was fictitious.” (bnr)