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Post by Admin on Mar 17, 2016 19:21:21 GMT
 Star-struck students at Yale University are in a tizzy over the rumor that Prince Harry is coming to New Haven, Conn., to matriculate at Yale Law School. “Everyone was talking about it around the campus. Big buzz!” one alumnus told me. “I doubt it,” royal-watcher Richard Mineards said. “Harry’s not the brightest bulb in the palace chandelier. His entry exam for Eton [boarding school] was delayed because he wasn’t considered up to taking it.“ Another Brit recalled the allegations that “Harry famously got his teacher to do the written element of his A1 Level exam at Eton.” Harry, who excelled at polo and rugby, graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst before becoming a helicopter pilot and serving two tours of duty in Afghanistan. But my source said, “That’s not an academic degree. That just means you can march neatly, follow orders and polish your boots.” |
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Post by Admin on Mar 19, 2016 19:27:32 GMT
Canada, eh? The third Invictus Games will be held in Toronto in September 2017. Prince Harry announced the exciting news in a three-minute video posted by Kensington Palace’s official Twitter account on Wednesday, March 16.  The sports competition, which celebrates the athleticism of injured and sick soldiers and veterans internationally, will include "more than 600 military competitors from 16 nations competing in 12 sports,” Invictus Toronto stated. |
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Post by Admin on Mar 21, 2016 19:22:46 GMT
 Britain's Prince Harry on Sunday visited with families living at a camp in Nepal for people made homeless by last April's devastating earthquake as he continued a trip that many hope will draw attention to Nepal's struggle to recover from the disaster. Harry talked to families living in the camp at Bhaktapur, just east of the capital, Kathmandu, inquiring about the living conditions. He also spent part of the second day of his five-day official visit to the Himalayan nation at palace and temple areas damaged in the quake. Authorities have been slow to push ahead with quake rebuilding efforts. A government reconstruction agency was finally appointed in December, but has yet to provide promised aid money to displaced families and guidelines to build new houses and structures.  |
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2016 19:25:12 GMT
The Prince's engagement was the most formal of his tour of Nepal so far, and he changed into his No.1 uniform for a wreath-laying ceremony at Gurkha headquarters. After a commemoration ceremony Prince Harry planted a tree in the grounds of the camp. It was an echo of his mother, Princess Diana, who planted a tree at the British Gurkha Camp, Kathmandu in 1993.  During the event he also learned more about the work of the Gurkha Welfare Scheme and the famously gruelling Gurkha recruitment process. Each year 240 Nepali young men are selected to join the British Army, following a highly competitive and rigorous series of physical and mental tests.  He then presented an MBE to Captain (rtd) Bhaktabahadur Rai for the work he'd done in bringing safe running water to 39 districts of Nepal. The Captain was in charge of a rural water scheme that brought potable water and understanding of hygiene and sanitation to thousands. Harry presented him the medal and said: 'So many years of service and finally you receive this. This is very special.'  |
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Post by Admin on Mar 25, 2016 19:18:22 GMT
 Prince Harry was today reunited with a Gurkha fighter he first met 26 years ago on a visit to Salisbury Plain in Wilthisre with his father Prince Charles, as he attended an engagement at the Gurkha headquarters in Pokhara as part of his official five day visit to Nepal.  Retired Major Bishnukumar Pun, 57, was famously pictured with the then six-year-old Harry during the visit and shared the photo with the Prince today, joking that they both looked somewhat different now. He told the prince: 'That's the photo. That was me, young and handsome. You were clean shaven then!' Major Pun, who lives in the UK and works for the Gurkha Welfare Trust, said: 'I met Prince Harry 26 years ago when the Prince of Wales was Colonel-in-Chief of our regiment, 2nd Gurkhas. 'We were stationed out in the UK on Salisbury Plain and on the last day of the training exercise he paid us a visit.  |
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