Visit to Lesotho charity and even gets an 'official' chalk portrait.
On
a three-day visit to Lesotho, a tiny kingdom in the heart of South Africa, Touring
projects that are being supported by his charity, Sentebale(‘forget me
not’). And also set
the charity up in 2006 with a member of Lesotho’s own royal family.
But Prince Harry was delighted with the sketch on a South African classroom chalk board.
As a royal you have to take everything in your stride and his morning's work included a lesson in sign language, cooking up a batch of doughnuts - and proving something of a storm on the dance floor.
The third in line to the throne was a natural with the children he met today at the Kananelo Centre for the Deaf in Lesotho, which is supported by his charity, Sentebale (‘forget me not’).
After a brief introduction
to the school and its work, it was back to the classroom for Harry who was
never a natural scholar and was definitely in 'mufty' for the day, wearing
low-slung jeans, scuffed desert boots and a white cotton shirt.
'I can tell you I'm going to remember none of this.'
The prince joined an English class, who has written warm words of welcome on their blackboard - including 'we love you Prince Harry'.
He was taught a series of phrases in sign language by 14-year-old Nandos Chabalalan including the words for family, father, mother, brother, sister and baby.
The prince also managed to sign 'my name is Harry' and wiped his brow theatrically as he managed to pull it off.
The pair proved to be quite the comedy act as Harry quickly retorted; 'What about the word for bald!'
Still the 28-year-old was nothing less than game as he played along with the giggling children, showing his genuine affinity with the youngsters as he helped to pluck sobbing Limpho Nekoana, whose named means gift, out of the class when he became distressed and giving him a comforting cuddle.
As one young pupil walked around eating a sweet and smiling, the prince joked about his own schooldays at Eton; 'At my school you couldn't just walk around like that.'
Before leaving Harry was even persuaded to
take part in a dance with some of the children, falling to his knees with mock
embarrassment and shaking his shoulders.
The Prince demonstrated he had a remarkably
good sense of rhythm - much more so than his father - as he shimmied in time to
the traditional whoops and wails of the youngsters.
The 28-year-old has always said that Africa
is one of the few places in the world he can ‘truly be himself’.
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