He's so full of energy. I'll bet he could use a good rubdown after playing the field ... perhaps it's time I became a masseuse.
Here's an article from the UK Daily Mirror that appeared some months ago about Harry's prowess on the field, in reference to the match he played where he gets down and dirty (see pic of him in my previous post in soiled uniform). It really got my juices flowing!
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ORDER OF THE BATH, HARRY
By Jane Kerr
PRINCE Harry gave dad a filthy look yesterday - and got a playful tweak on the nose in return. It was all part of the fun as Charles turned out to see his very own Dirty Harry cover himself in mud and glory in the centuries-old Eton Wall Game. His victorious team made history by scoring twice in the game - a cross between rugby, soccer and brutality which baffles everyone but the players.
Charles, though, was understandably proud of his 18-year-old son. He watched the game with Harry's tutors and other dads. As soon as it was over he squelched through the mire to congratulate Harry - and rib him over his appearance. The closeness between father and son was clear as they stood alone chatting and joking. Charles reached out to hold Harry's shoulder then quickly withdrew his hand in mock disgust at the sight of his younger boy caked in mud from head to toe.
The fond exchanges were captured by the Daily Mirror after we were invited to watch Harry play in the annual match on Saturday. We were the only newspaper to record Charles's private visit to the elite Berkshire school for the game - said to have inspired Harry Potter's Quidditch. Afterwards one royal aide, referring to our Paul Burrell scoop, joked: "It looks like the Mirror's done it again." Harry, in his final year at Eton, brought a cheer from the 300-strong crowd by scaling down a brick wall with the other players to start the game.
The prince had daubed his face with blue and yellow warpaint - in keeping with a game which has been described as "brutal, pointless and extremely dangerous". And, leaving no doubt about the determination of his Oppidans side to win, Harry was photographed with his nine team-mates in a special edition of the school magazine, The Chronicle, dressed in the style of an Al Capone gangster. His menacing look was completed with a wide-brimmed trilby hat, white suit, waistcoat and cane.Harry's opponents included a friend who called himself "The Duchess of Dork". But the young royal signed on in the magazine simply as "Harry Wales Esq". Torrential rain had swamped the field. And within minutes Harry's blue and red striped shirt and white trousers were covered in mud along with his face, hair, hands and legs, making it virtually impossible to tell him apart from the other players. At one point, he looked like being crushed under a mass of bodies as both sides tried to win control of the ball along the 118-yard wall against which the game is played.But during a break in play he acted the clown by lying down flat in the mud, hands clasped behind his head.And any pain he might have felt soon melted when his side scored a try. Such are the complicated rules of the game that scoring is rare. The last time anyone can remember it happening was nearly a decade ago.
Jubilant Harry celebrated by hugging his team-mates and performing a short victory dance. Then, minutes before the end, his side scored their unique second try. It was a sweet moment for the prince, who appears to have put the furore over his pot smoking and underage drinking long behind him.The teenage daredevil, who has tried his hand at most adventure sports including abseiling, scuba diving, skiing and polo, is no stranger to physical scrapes either. Last June he damaged his ankle in an inter-house sporting encounter and had to limp around on dad's walking stick for weeks. He needed surgery after he chipped a bone in his left thumb playing football. In 1996 he was so badly bruised while playing rugby at Eton he had to be taken to hospital. And he still carries a scar on his foot after he accidentally put it through a plate glass window. But he comes up smiling.
A family friend said: "Harry likes to let his hair down. He's full of fun and gets away with much more than his brother.