The “fast life”? It’s also the high life… On October 22, far, far from the royal socialities and protocol obligations that have punctuated (rotted, some say) his life for years, Prince Harry attended the Grand Formula 1 prize organized on the Circuit of the Americas. On this occasion, he notably visited the stands of the reigning world champion team, Red Bull, and spoke with his boss, the Briton Christian Horner, here on the right.
That day, Prince Harry wore a navy polo shirt and put on raw-colored jeans, giving shape to a monochrome silhouette sorely lacking in relief and interest, but allowing us at least one observation of a historical nature: these have become years the default color of all men’s wardrobes, navy is a color whose use is recent. Before the middle of the 20th century, apart from sailor clothing, it was rarely worn, the gray overwhelming everything in its path.
His Highness also wore a series of fancy bracelets on his right wrist. The first was made of wooden beads, the second of metal, the third of leather decorated with a pistachio green wool thread. Gri-gri? Lucky charm ? Pure coquetry? No, midlife crisis. At 39, and like more and more men, Prince Harry actually weighs down his wrist with trinkets to demonstrate his cool and thus slow down the disappearance of his youth… Spoiler: it doesn’t work.
Did the man named Christian Horner, 49, also have a series of bracelets on his right wrist? We would happily bet that yes, but in the absence of proof, we will content ourselves with noting that the boss of the Red Bull team is dressed in another item frequently requisitioned by forty-somethings in search of reassurance: skinny-cut jeans, weighted with elastane and adorned with a particularly marked artificial patina. Both are obviously to be avoided.
Finally, how can we not return, at the sight of all these plastic accreditations, with their gleaming cords but sharp corners, to this magnificent story almost twenty years old that older football fans perhaps remember? In 2004, a few hours before the start of the Euro, French team player Steve Marlet inadvertently caught his accreditation in the eye. Victim of a torn cornea, he was unable to compete in the competition, the only major tournament for which he was summoned with the Blues. Formula 1 drivers wear helmets.