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BOOZE-LOVING PRINCE HARRY HAS BEEN CAST AS A DRUNK IN HIS SCHOOL'S SHAKESPEARE PLAY
The Sun Newspaper Online - UK
Monday, February 17, 2003
The royal tearaway, 18 "” whose rowdy antics got him barred from his local "” has been given the apt role in Much Ado About Nothing.
Pals who have seen him during rehearsals at Eton College are already describing his performance as "awesome".
In one scene, which the Queen and dad Charles will see next month, former underage drinker Harry staggers around slurring his words as he plays posh drunken dope Conrade.
One fellow sixth-former at the £20,000-a-year Berkshire school grinned yesterday: "Harry is obviously drawing on past experience.
"He plays a drunk extremely well. It's what Hollywood would call method acting." The pupil added optimistically: "The Queen and Prince Charles will be in fits when they watch Harry perform."
The play "” a romantic romp "” is being staged by the school's Manor House, where Harry is a boarder.
A spokesman for the Royal Shakespeare Company said of Harry being given the role: "It does seem rather ironic."
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