Riddle me this...The Prince and the Hat?

[Jim]

There was once a beautiful princess. Three princes of the land all wanted to marry her, so the princess's father (the king) came up with an idea. The king had 5 identical hats made, the only difference being the color: 3 white hats and 2 black hats. The three princes were blindfolded and placed in a room. Three servants came in and place a hat on each prince's head. The blindfolds were removed and the servants left the room leaving only the princes. Each prince can now see the other two princes and their hats, but not his own. The first prince to correctly identify the color of his hat gets the princess. There's a catch, if you guess wrong, you die; one guess. Now imagine you are one of the princes, your blindfold is removed to reveal two princes, one with a black hat and one with a white hat, what color is your hat?

 

[Yesterdays!Dinner!]

White! Two black hats would have made it too easy for the person with the white hat! ooh the suspense....

 

[gimlihamster_ii]

white because if it was black, the other prince could immediately guess what colour hat he had