he's soo cute as conrade
thx for the pix alexandria!
article from the timesonline:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-...-707781,00.html
June 09, 2003
Prince Harry as Conrade in Eton College's production of Much Ado About Nothing
Much ado about the creative Prince Harry
By Alan Hamilton
“I AM a gentleman, sir, and my name is Conrade.” It’s that knockabout scene in Much Ado About Nothing where Dogberry is exposed as the idiot interrogator.
Conrade is not a major character in the Shakespearean canon, although it is unquestionably a step up from Prince Harry’s previous dramatic roles, which included Ginger Spice and one of Snow White’s dwarfs. But he is still far from emulating the thespian triumph of his father — an acclaimed Macbeth in the 1965 Gordonstoun production of the Scottish play.
Photographs of Prince Harry, released today to mark his impending departure from Eton, show that the 18-year-old younger son of the Prince of Wales has been allowed to develop the artistic side of his nature at school, on stage and on canvas.
Harry, clearly more outgoing than his elder brother, is said to have loved the limelight of the Eton production of Much Ado in March this year, even if it lacked the sparkle of Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson in the film version.
Masked and in flamboyant costume, he is said to have played the role of a gentleman follower of Don John, evil brother of Don Pedro, Prince of Arragon, with panache — particularly in dance scenes with girls from a local school.
His previous dramatic triumphs were enacted while he was still at Ludgrove, his Berkshire preparatory school. He played the dwarf before he grew to his present height of 6ft 2in, and played Ginger Spice in a Union Jack miniskirt and wig.
Other pictures released over the weekend show Harry as a keen artist, with two untitled paintings, drawing heavily on Aboriginal influences, currently on show at the college. Although he will end his school career when he sits his art A level this week, his talent is likely to surprise many.
His work involves a mixture of painting and printing techniques, and suggests a preference for modern art as well as earthy tones and colours. He often draws his inspiration from animals, and his work presently exhibited is based on a study of lizards.
Art facilities at Eton are excellent: Harry works in the new Drawing School, opened last autumn, whose glass walls overlooking the playing fields allow natural light to flood into the studio. “Harry is a fantastic painter,” his brother said of him in a recent interview.
The latest photographs also allow a glimpse into the private world of Harry’s study bedroom in Manor House, suitably cluttered as a teenager’s room should be — even though he did a bit of tidying up for the photo session.
In pride of place is a framed black-and-white photograph of his mother. Mario Testino’s study of Diana, Princess of Wales, taken for Vanity Fair, was the last formal portrait taken before her death in 1997.
Pinned to the noticeboard by his bed is another picture of him with his mother, taken at the VJ-Day anniversary celebrations in 1995, alongside a picture of his father. Equally prominent — and not the only bikini-clad pin-up in the room — is a picture of the model Caprice, who said yesterday that she was “chuffed to bits” to be favoured by royalty.
Other decorations include a famous poster of New York steel erectors on their lunch break on the skeleton of the Rockefeller Centre in 1932, and a poster of Whistler ski resort in the Canadian Rockies bearing a handwritten message: “Great skiing with you.”
On Harry’s bedside table is a photograph of his great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, who died last year. But there is no mistaking that this is a teenager’s room, with clothes “put away” on the floor.
What the photographs do not show, however, is what Prince Harry plans to do next. St James’s Palace has given no indication of his future direction, although it is expected he will take a gap year before contemplating a career in the Armed Forces and possibly applying for Sandhurst.
The photographs were released as part of an unwritten agreement between St James’s Palace and the media that they will leave the young princes alone while they complete their education, provided they are given occasional arranged photo opportunities in return.
The deal is showing signs of strain, with tabloid editors dissatisfied at the amount of access they have been given to Prince William at St Andrews University. The Palace hopes the editors will be appeased when the Prince undertakes a day of engagements with his father in Wales on June 19, two days before his 21st birthday.