Harry chats with public on Australia army trip
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BRITAIN’S Prince Harry joked and chatted with an enthusiastic crowd yesterday at his only scheduled public appearance during a monthlong embedment with Australia’s army, declaring pride in his ginger hair and telling a self-obsessed younger generation that “selfies are bad.”
The British army captain reported for duty in Australia’s capital, Canberra, to begin a four-week attachment to the Australian army that will take him to the east, west and north coasts of the vast nation.
But before he got down to military business, Harry ignored light rain and cool weather to shake hands and chat with hundreds of cheering well-wishers who gathered at cordons to welcome him outside the Australian War Memorial.
Perhaps because of his own history of embarrassing candid photos, he was less generous with teenagers who wanted to photograph themselves with him. He drew laughs when he urged one teen admirer to break the habit of taking “selfies.”
“No, I hate selfies. Seriously, you need to get out of it,” Ten Network television recorded him telling the admirer.
Harry, fourth in line to the British throne — he’ll move to fifth when brother Prince William’s second child is born — also shook hands and gave a high-five to ginger-haired 12-year-old Ethan Toscan, who brought a banner that read “Red Heads RULE!”
Like in Britain, redheads are often teased in Australia, where they are known as “rangas” — short for orangutans.
Harry arrived at Sydney International Airport early yesterday dressed in army fatigues, and changed into a dress uniform for the official functions at the memorial.
The 30-year-old veteran of two tours in Afghanistan later reported for duty to Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin, Australia’s Defense Force chief, at the nearby Australian military officers’ college. Captain Wales, as he is known in the British army, will be embedded with a number of Australian army units and regiments in the cities of Darwin, Sydney and Perth.
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