More settled Harry returns to pet project

HE has often been regarded as the “spare” among the royal heirs, a man without much of a purpose, and sometimes – as even he admits – resentful of his fate.

But a new documentary to be broadcast in Britain this week appears to show that Prince Harry, nearly two decades after being traumatised by the death of his mother, has found his place in the world.

In Prince Harry in Africa, he returns to Lesotho, where he spent part of his gap year a decade ago, to see what progress has been made on the many projects set up by his charity Sentebale.

In it, he says he used to bury his head in the sand but now views life very differently.

“I was fighting the system going, ‘I don’t want to be this person – my mother died when I was very, very young and I don’t want to be in this position’.

“But now I’m just so fired up and energised to be lucky enough to be in a position to make a difference.”

In one touching scene in the documentary, he is reunited with Mutsu, a oncetraumatised orphan who took a shine to him when they first met in 2006.

Together, they revisit the pear tree they planted 10 years ago and Mutsu, now 15, shows the prince how the Sentebale Centre where he lives has thrived since the prince’s last visit.

Ten years on, the work of Sentebale – meaning “forget me not” – includes HIV clinics, education centres for goatherds and schools for the blind.