Prince Harry Current Events 5: January-May 2005

[susan alicia]

warren, you do not have to be perfect and you gave elspeth a chance to show her dry sense of humor and make us laugh, thank you for that

I have gone bright red, and will quickly go and correct my post!
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[Echo7]

New photos of Lesotho

Here are the recent photos of Harry in Lesotho.​

 

[Ava Elizabeth]

Very nice pics, thanks for posting! he seems very good with children..When were these pics taken?

 

[HMQueenElizabethII]

Thanks lots for the photos,Echo7.

 

[Echo7]

They are from April when he visited Lesotho again before he and Chelsy later went on a week or so safari.

 

[GrandDuchess]

SANDHURST, ENGLAND - MAY 8: HRH Prince Harry aged 20, shakes hands with army officers at Sandhurst Royal Military Academy as he is accompanied by his father HRH The Prince of Wales, before he begins his officer training, on May 8, 2005 in Sandhurst, Surrey. Prince Harry begins his military career with a 44-week commissioning course. For the first five weeks, he must stay on site all the time. His entry is delayed from January due to a knee injury. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

 

[GrandDuchess]

SANDHURST, ENGLAND - MAY 8: HRH Prince Harry aged 20, shakes hands with army officers at Sandhurst Royal Military Academy as he is accompanied by his father HRH The Prince of Wales, before he begins his officer training, on May 8, 2005 in Sandhurst, Surrey. Prince Harry begins his military career with a 44-week commissioning course. For the first five weeks, he must stay on site all the time. His entry is delayed from January due to a knee injury. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

 

[GrandDuchess]

From BBC News:

Short video available here

Harry begins Sandhurst training

Prince Harry has arrived at the Sandhurst Military Academy in Surrey to begin his career in the Army.

The prince will become the most senior member of the royal family in recent memory to be trained at Sandhurst.

The elite academy insists the 20-year-old will not be treated differently to any other recruit.

The prince had to pass a four-day assessment featuring an obstacle course, fitness tasks and a military planning exercise, to win his place.

Prince Charles accompanied Harry to Sandhurst, giving him a playful punch on the arm before leaving him to start his career.

BBC correspondent Peter Hunt said the prince would have to take along his own shoe polish and ironing board.

As well as learning how to handle explosives and going on expeditions, Harry would have plenty of time to master the art of ironing perfect creases into his combat shirt, our correspondent said.

Cadets are initially only allowed one photograph of their family although there are numerous pictures around the college of his grandmother - the Queen.

Harry's accommodation would be basic, our correspondent added.

Senior officers are understood to be planning to call him Mr Wales or Officer Cadet Wales while his fellow soldiers will just use his surname.

The prince's entry into Sandhurst was delayed from earlier in the year to allow a knee injury to recover.

He had been due to enrol at the prestigious royal military academy in January.

The prince injured his knee while training with the army ahead of his test for Sandhurst during the summer.

He aggravated the injury in October while coaching children for the Rugby Football Union.

 

[Elspeth]

I hope he sticks to it and that it does him some good.

 

[gaggleofcrazypeople]

Maybe he will finally grow up after Sandhurst.

 

[Ephram]

I wish Prince Harry all the best

 

[Ephram]

Pictures of Prince Harry in Lesotho. Prince of the peoples' heart

Source: Getty Images

 

[Nichola]

I wish Prince Harry all the best

I agree. Good Luck Harry!

 

[hillary_nugent]

Maybe he will finally grow up after Sandhurst.

hahaha i bet everyone is praying on this...all that training better knock some sense into him

 

[susan alicia]

Harry considered a "weak" student

this is now on the bbc evening news (and on their website):

Ms Forsyth lost her job in the summer of 2003

Prince Harry was regarded as a "weak" student at Eton and needed to be helped, his former art teacher has claimed at an employment tribunal.

Sarah Forsyth, whose contract ended in 2003, said parts of a painting featured in newspapers as the Prince's A-Level work were completed by another teacher.

And Ms Forsyth, 30, said help she gave Harry for AS-Level work was "unethical and probably constituted cheating".

She denies her job loss was due to her teaching and claims unfair dismissal.

Secretly recorded

In cross-examination at the Reading hearing, Ms Forsyth said she believed "reasons other than the teaching" including the "Prince Harry mess" lay behind her dismissal.

In a statement, Ms Forsyth also alleged she secretly recorded Harry thanking her for the help when it became clear she would not get her job back.

"I have recently seen for the first time extracts of the written material which was submitted on Prince Harry's behalf and can confirm that it was nearly all written by me," she added.

The prince's former teacher said she assumed she had been asked to help him because he was "a weak student" and went on to claim that a colleague who marked Harry's entrance exam had been "desperate" to award marks to help him pass.

Miss Forsyth has also alleged that Ian Burke, her former head of department, would occasionally paint for the boys while he talked to them about betting or football.

'Friendly atmosphere'

Pupils encouraged this behaviour, she said, by keeping the teacher on his "pet subjects".

In her statement she said Mr Burke worked on the boys' paintings in their absence, including Prince Harry's work which later featured in newspapers.

Mr Burke said, in a supplementary statement to the tribunal, that his former colleague's claims were "a misinterpretation of a friendly atmosphere" and said claims that he had finished pupils' work were "completely untrue".

Prince Harry is beginning officer training at Sandhurst Military Academy in Surrey this week.

Denial

The Royal Family has denied any cheating by Harry took place.

Ms Forsyth worked at Eton until the summer of 2003, when her contract was not renewed.

The school maintains that she did not sit alone at a computer and write out the text to the AS project, as she has claimed. It has said that three separate teachers saw her sitting with Harry working on his coursework journal. Eton has previously said Ms Forsyth's tape is inaudible in parts and, in any event, the whole issue is irrelevant to the dismissal.

 

[gaggleofcrazypeople]

I don't believe this at all.

 

[sara1981]

this is now on the bbc evening news (and on their website):



Ms Forsyth lost her job in the summer of 2003

Prince Harry was regarded as a "weak" student at Eton and needed to be helped, his former art teacher has claimed at an employment tribunal.

Sarah Forsyth, whose contract ended in 2003, said parts of a painting featured in newspapers as the Prince's A-Level work were completed by another teacher.

And Ms Forsyth, 30, said help she gave Harry for AS-Level work was "unethical and probably constituted cheating".

She denies her job loss was due to her teaching and claims unfair dismissal.

Secretly recorded

In cross-examination at the Reading hearing, Ms Forsyth said she believed "reasons other than the teaching" including the "Prince Harry mess" lay behind her dismissal.

In a statement, Ms Forsyth also alleged she secretly recorded Harry thanking her for the help when it became clear she would not get her job back.

"I have recently seen for the first time extracts of the written material which was submitted on Prince Harry's behalf and can confirm that it was nearly all written by me," she added.

The prince's former teacher said she assumed she had been asked to help him because he was "a weak student" and went on to claim that a colleague who marked Harry's entrance exam had been "desperate" to award marks to help him pass.

Miss Forsyth has also alleged that Ian Burke, her former head of department, would occasionally paint for the boys while he talked to them about betting or football.

'Friendly atmosphere'

Pupils encouraged this behaviour, she said, by keeping the teacher on his "pet subjects".

In her statement she said Mr Burke worked on the boys' paintings in their absence, including Prince Harry's work which later featured in newspapers.

Mr Burke said, in a supplementary statement to the tribunal, that his former colleague's claims were "a misinterpretation of a friendly atmosphere" and said claims that he had finished pupils' work were "completely untrue".

Prince Harry is beginning officer training at Sandhurst Military Academy in Surrey this week.

Denial

The Royal Family has denied any cheating by Harry took place.

Ms Forsyth worked at Eton until the summer of 2003, when her contract was not renewed.

The school maintains that she did not sit alone at a computer and write out the text to the AS project, as she has claimed. It has said that three separate teachers saw her sitting with Harry working on his coursework journal. Eton has previously said Ms Forsyth's tape is inaudible in parts and, in any event, the whole issue is irrelevant to the dismissal.

i dont believe her! but Prince Harry done school at Eton but he cant got back to school ever! but i did read in Sky news articles about that how she dare that to Prince Harry!

Sara Boyce

 

[Elspeth]

Well, this sort of accusation is bound to happen when exam results depend on coursework as well as actual exams; whether it's true or not is another matter, but it must be very tempting for teachers in schools that have reputations for doing well at exams to encourage some of the weaker students by helping out with the coursework part of the exam result. I think that the A-level exams should go back to being assessed the way they were 20 years ago - just on the basis of examinations that are taken by the student under supervision and with no help from anybody. Otherwise it's very easy to have something like this happen, especially when the teacher can point to a high-profile student in the hope that the school might be intimidated into backing down.

 

[BeccaLynn07]

Official Palace Pics Show Harry Smoking

Prince Harry has been pictured holding a cigarette next to a young
orphan while carrying out charity work in South Africa.

Harry, whose wayward behaviour has never kept him far from the
headlines, was snapped crouched on the ground with the cigarette
hidden by a shadow.

Ironically, the officials pictures were issued by Clarence House as
part of a campaign to boost the Prince's image after a series of
negative tabloid stories.

A spokesman for Prince Harry said Clarence House was unaware the
cigarette was in the picture.

He added that "far too much" was being made of the issue.

The Prince has spent his gap year in Lesotho helping Aids orphans.

The girl he is pictured next to is thought to be four-year-old Mutsu
Potsane, who is believed to be HIV positive.

Harry has been involved in a series of high-profile incidents which
have seen him apologise for dressing as a Nazi at a fancy dress
party, smoking cannabis and fighting with a paparazzi photographer.

The cigarette was spotted on the day that Harry's former Eton
teacher Sarah Forsyth claimed in an employment tribunal that parts
of one of the Prince's A-Level art work had been completed by
another teacher

Harry is now at Sandhurst, knuckling down on what is the first full
day of his new military career.

He joined the elite academy on Sunday and now faces 44 weeks of its
gruelling regime of early starts and punishing physical training.



Has anyone seen these pictures??

 

[lashinka2002]

News article from yahoo on Harry

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050509/wl_uk_afp/britainroyalharry_050509134726

 

[BeccaLynn07]

AOL News article on his entry to Sandhurst (I don't think this has been post yet...)

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050508131909990004&ncid=NWS00010000000001
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?=20050508131909990004&ncid=NWS00010000000001

 

[marezdote]

Has anyone seen these pictures??

Here is one where you can see it clearly. Pic from Reuters via Yahoo.

 

[La la]

I found this picture on aftonbladet.se

 

[BeccaLynn07]

Thanks...wow I'd seen that picture yet hadn't noticed the cigarate in his hand.

 

[gaggleofcrazypeople]

Yes, when I saw that pic for the first time, his hand was too shaded to see the cigarette.

 

[Echo7]

Badminton Horse Trials

Some photos from Harry at the Badminton Horse Trials on the 7th of May. Zara Phillips and Lady Gabriella Windsor attended as well. I guess Zara would have been competing

 

[Echo7]

I was just wondering does anyone know which one of Harry's friends this is? In all the photos with him? they seem to be pretty close...I've seen him in photos of when Harry was in Australia and stuff as well...

 

[gaggleofcrazypeople]

Are you sure this is the same person?

 

[Warren]

Guess

At a guess, photo no 2 looks like Guy Pelly.

 

[gaggleofcrazypeople]

And photo number 2 doesn't look like photo number 1.