Prince Harry dressed up for return to limelight
Alex Logan appeared poised to broach the topic of the royal’s embarrassing pictures when the two met at an awards ceremony celebrating seriously ill youngsters and the doctors and nurses who care for them.
When the six-year-old was interviewed by ITV News at lunchtime he was asked what he would say to the royal and replied: “I’m glad you’ve got your clothes on Prince Harry.”
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Hide AdBut the Prince left the little boy in no doubt the incident was off limits, crouching down to his level and telling him not to talk about it as he shook his finger at him and smiled.
Debbie Logan, 39, the youngster’s mother, said: “Harry said to Alex ‘You keep looking up at your mum, looks like you’re dying to say something but you know she’ll tell you off. I heard you were on ITV earlier, you said something cheeky, let’s not talk about that here’.”
Harry’s appearance at the WellChild awards ceremony, staged at the InterContinental Park Lane hotel in central London, was his first since the images first appeared on the web.
But he looked relaxed, joking and laughing with the seriously ill award-winning youngsters including Alex, in remission from acute leukaemia, who at one point put his soft-toy penguin on the Prince’s forehead.
Harry is patron of WellChild, a UK-based charity dedicated to the needs of sick children and their families, whose children’s nurses provide them with specialist medical care and direct support in the home.
Harry proved a big draw with one of the award winners, Hope Hillis, from Lisburn, Northern Ireland, who gave the Prince a “cow lick” as a sign of her affection. The youngster has had more than 50 operations for various conditions since being born three months prematurely.
The five-year-old licked the prince’s cheek which made him laugh and he joked: “We’ve only just met.” Sarah Hillis, 32, Hope’s mother, said: “That’s a great compliment from Hope, a lick on the side of the face, that’s better then a kiss.”