Sydney, Oct 26: Thousands of English adolescents hope to follow Britain's Prince Harry and work as jackaroos and jillaroos on Australian cattle stations, news reports today said. The 19-year-old son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana is on a three-month working holiday in Australia.
He clocked on a month ago at the remote 16,000-hectare Tooloombilla cattle station in Queensland, where he earns regular wages as what Australians call a jackaroo or jillaroo and Americans call a cowboy or cowgirl.
David Stitt, Managing Director of the specialist London-based working holiday firm work and travel company, said inquiries from youngsters keen for the cattle station experience has jumped by a third.
Stitt told Sydney's Sun-Herald that the surge was down to Harry.
About 10,000 school-leavers around Harry's age head to Australia each year in what has become a rite of passage for rich kids enjoying a ''gap year'' before going to college.
Bureau Report