Sydney, Nov 25: Prince Harry today moved off the touchline and onto the playing field in Sydney. While thousands of rugby fans nursed hangovers on Sunday (November 23) after England's historic Rugby World Cup victory in Sydney, Prince Harry found the strength to climb aboard a horse and play in the Young England vs Young Australia Polo test match.
The match ended 6-4 for the English team and was played in heavy weather conditions. The conditions were not unlike those of the evening before, when England's team defeated Australia's Wallabies before a capacity crowd. Harry, third in line to the British throne, was one of the 83,000 fans at Telstra Stadium, shown on television waving his arms and cheering his team to the first championship victory of a northern hemisphere team in the World Cup's 16-year history. The 19-year-old prince arrived Down Under in late September and has been working on a sheep station in outback Australia as part of his gap year.


Harry has gained a reputation as "the prince of fun" during his Australian visit, the Daily Telegraph reported on Sunday. The tabloid ran a photograph of him wearing his "sunnies," or sunglasses, and sporting a wide grin after he completed a climb of the Harbour Bridge and took in the Sydney Harbour view.


Bureau Report