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Welcome to the Prince Harry Fan Club and Fanlisting! We are the TFL-approved fanlisting for Prince Henry of Wales. Please have a look around, join, and enjoy this site about the Prince! |
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Sentebale was founded by Prince Seeiso from the Lesotho Royal family and Prince Harry from the British Royal family in response to the plight of the neediest of Lesotho's people - its orphans and vulnerable children. The Princes have a continuing role as active patrons but Sentebale's main operations are now based in Lesotho headed by a Country Director.
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Site Name: Prince Harry Fan Club and Fanlisting
Webmiss: Stephanie
Since: July 1, 2008
Approved by: TFL
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This is only a fan site. I do not have any connection with Prince Harry nor his representatives. I am not Prince Harry. This is a nonprofit site and is only for fun.
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Prince Harry was born on 15 September 1984 as Henry Charles Albert David at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, in central London, England, and was christened on 21 December of the same year at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Robert Runcie. His godparents were his uncle, The Duke of York; Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones; Lady Vestey; Mrs. William Bartholomew; the portrait painter, Mr. Bryan Organ; and Mr. Gerald Ward.
Harry attended Mrs. Jane Mynors's nursery school in West London, as did William. He later followed his brother to the Wetherby School, and later to Ludgrove School in Berkshire. He then attended Eton College located in Berkshire in 1998. In June 2003, he completed his education at Eton with two A-levels obtaining a B in Art and a D in Geography. At school, he developed his love of sport, particularly polo and rugby union. The Prince has shown a keen interest in abseiling. He has also participated in the Eton Wall Game.
After finishing Eton, Harry undertook a gap year, visiting Australia and Africa. In Australia, he, like his father before him, worked on a cattle station, and watched the 2003 Rugby World Cup being held in the country. In Africa, he worked in an orphanage in Lesotho. Later in the year, he travelled to Argentina on holiday.
On 8 May 2005, the Prince entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. There, he was known as Officer Cadet Wales instead of using his royal title, and was part of Alamein Company.
As a serving soldier, Prince Harry currently has no official Royal Engagements. However, at the age of 23, and as third in line to the throne, he became eligible to serve as a Counsellor of State (first filling this role in 2005 when the Queen was on a state visit to Malta).
In April 2006, Prince Harry launched a charity with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho to aid children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. The charity is named Sentebale: The Princes' Fund for Lesotho; the name, Sentebale being a Sesotho word meaning forget-me-not, is meant to honour both princes' mothers: the Princess of Wales, who died in 1997; and Queen 'MaMohato of Lesotho, who died in 2003. Prince Harry was in Lesotho to launch the charity and to make a return visit to Mants'ase Children's Home near Mohale's Hoek, which he visited in 2004 during his gap year.
Along with his elder brother, Harry spearheaded the Concert for Diana at Wembley Stadium, on 1 July 2007. Attended by 63,000 people, and broadcast in 140 countries, the concert raised funds for charities such as the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, Centrepoint and Harry's own Sentebale.
As with any member of the Royal Family, Prince Harry is expected to take up honorary positions as patron, president or chancellor of charitable or academic institutions throughout the Commonwealth Realms. Prince Harry is currently patron of:
WellChild
Sentebale
Dolen Cymru
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Officer Cadet Wales (standing to attention next to the horse) on parade at Sandhurst, 21 June 2005.Upon leaving the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in April 2006, Prince Harry was commissioned into the The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons), a regiment of the Household Cavalry in the British Army, as a Second Lieutenant (known in the regiment as "Cornet"). Upon reaching two years' seniority in April 2008, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant.
In 2006, Prince Harry was also appointed as one of nine new Commodores-in-Chief of the Royal Navy, alongside other members of his family, being appointed as Commodore-in-Chief, Small Ships and Diving.
On 22 February 2007, the Ministry of Defence and Clarence House made a joint statement that Prince Harry would be deployed with his regiment in Iraq, to serve as part of the 1st Mechanised Brigade of the 3rd (UK) Mechanised Division, although this decision was later rescinded. Prior to this, the last member of the Royal Family to have served in a war zone was Prince Harry's uncle, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, who flew helicopters during the Falklands War in 1982. At the time, Prince Andrew was second in line to the thrones of the Commonwealth Realms, although this changed to third on the 21 June 1982, the birthday of Prince William and the day after the British Government declared hostilities to be over. According to a BBC news article, Prince Harry had made it clear that he would leave the army if he was left in safety while his regiment was sent to a war zone.
The head of the British army, General Sir Richard Dannatt, first said on 30 April 2007 that he had personally decided that the Prince will serve with his unit in Iraq. The Ministry of Defence had been considering whether the Prince should be exposed to a combat situation; concerns included the Prince being a high-value target, as several threats by various groups have already been made against him, and the dangers the soldiers around him would face should any attempt be made on his life or capture. However, families of serving soldiers have expressed concern over any decision which would exempt Prince Harry from active service in Iraq. The Prince has been quoted as saying "There's no way I'm going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country." Although friends of the Prince have indicated that he would be "disappointed" if he were not allowed to go, they are also quoted as saying he would not resign from the army in protest.
Prince Harry was scheduled to leave for Iraq in May or June 2007, with the regiment becoming responsible for patrolling the Maysan province, trying to stop Iranian smugglers bringing hi-tech weapons across the border of desert and marshes. The province, known to Coalition forces as Iraq’s "Wild West", has been described as "a dangerous wilderness that is being used by Iraq's Shia extremist groups as a testing ground for their latest explosive devices." On 16 May 2007, Dannatt, contrary to his previous remarks, announced "I have decided today that Prince Harry will not be deployed to Iraq." Clarence House subsequently issued a statement that "Prince Harry is very disappointed that he will not be able to go to Iraq with his troop on this deployment, as he had hoped. He fully understands and accepts General Dannatt’s difficult decision, and remains committed to his Army career. Prince Harry’s thoughts are with his troop and the rest of the Battle Group in Iraq."
In May 2007 British soldiers in Iraq were reported to be wearing t-shirts bearing the statement "I'm Harry!": a reference to the scene in the movie Spartacus in which the survivors of Spartacus's army, defeated by Roman legions, are offered leniency by Crassus if they will identify their leader. Every survivor declares: "I'm Spartacus!"
By early June, it was being reported that Prince Harry, third in line to the Canadian Throne, had arrived in Canada to train, along with other soldiers of the Canadian and British Armies, at CFB Suffield, near Medicine Hat, for a tour of duty in Afghanistan.
On 28 February 2008 the Ministry of Defence stated that Prince Harry had secretly been deployed to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan, in Helmand Province as a Forward Air Controller. The Ministry of Defence had a deal with the media of the United Kingdom running to keep his whereabouts secret. The German newspaper Bild and the Australian magazine New Idea were the first to report rumours on 7 January 2008, followed by a story on the American website the Drudge Report on 28 February leading to the confirmation by the British Ministry of Defence.
According to reports, the Prince's combat tour in Afghanistan began on 14 December 2007. Reports have also revealed that by 29 February 2008 the prince had called in at least three U.S Air Force F-15E air strikes. Other details of Prince Harry's combat experience have revealed that he had fired a machine gun at insurgent positions during a battle. In that battle, he helped Gurkha troops repel an attack of sixteen to twenty Taliban insurgents. He has also performed patrol duty in hostile areas. On 29 February 2008 Prince Harry was withdrawn from Afghanistan, following the outbreak of news that could potentially jeopardise his safety and the safety of his fellow sub-ordinates, he returned to RAF Brize Norton with 169 other soldiers also returning. His tour came 735 years after his ancestor, Edward Prince of Wales, had also been on military duty in the middle East during the Ninth crusade. He was welcomed back to Britain by his brother and his father, who said he was "incredibly proud" of his son. The Queen's senior courtiers also exclaimed that she viewed that "[Harry] had performed a good job in a very difficult climate."
Source: Wikipedia
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