ABOVE: One fan gets a little “up close and personal” with a laughing Prince Harry
Hundreds of cheering Australians crowded around Sydney’s Opera House on Thursday to bid adieu to Britain’s Prince Harry as he wrapped up a month-long embedment with the Australian army.
The prince, whose decade-long military career will end next month, took part in a military exercise on Sydney Harbour before chatting with dozens of giggling primary school students on the Opera House’s steps.
He later signed autographs, snapped photos and shook hands with hordes of royal enthusiasts, several of whom held up signs blaring “Marry Me Harry” and “His Royal Hotness!”
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One crown-wearing woman, Victoria McRae, was among those pleading for a proposal who managed to land a kiss on the laughing prince’s cheek – then, in her words, decided to go “in for it”.
“I just said ‘this is the third time I propose, you know, put a girl out of her misery,'” McRae told reporters. “And then he said that could he think about it, and I said ‘oh well, I’d be happy with just a kiss,’ and so he let me kiss him on the cheek.”
“But then I went in for it, and the rest is history.”
Captain Harry Wales, as he is known in the British Army, spent four weeks embedded with a number of Australian army units and regiments in Darwin, Perth and Sydney.
He took part in flight simulation training, learned wilderness survival techniques, visited an Aboriginal community and played a game of wheelchair Aussie-rules football with wounded soldiers.
The prince will next head to New Zealand for a week-long visit before returning to Britain.
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