Prince Harry won’t be sweating over trying to find a new job

LONDON: Prince Harry is looking for work – but don’t expect him to be sending out invitations to connect on LinkedIn.

No one is likely to keep the fourth in line for the British throne waiting for a job interview or to grill him about his background – although he’s been caught smoking pot and photographed playing “strip billiards” in Las Vegas.

And if it takes him a while to find the right position, the family fortune should tide him over.

Royal officials said yesterday the 30-year-old prince would leave the armed forces in June. Kensington Palace said he would volunteer with a programme for wounded service members “while actively considering other longer-term employment opportunities”.

In the meantime, his final army duties will include a four-week assignment over the next two months with the Australian Defence Force. He will spend time in Darwin, Perth and Sydney, and attend centenary commemorations of the World War I Gallipoli campaign in Turkey.

Harry said leaving the army after a decade of service, which included two tours of duty in Afghanistan, was “a really tough decision”, but that he was excited about the future.

“The experiences over the last 10 years will stay with me for the rest of my life. For that I will always be hugely grateful.”

Harry has often seemed more comfortable as a soldier than in his royal duties, and he has been visibly energised by his work with charities for wounded veterans.

“It’s very easy to forget about who I am when I am in the army,” Harry said after returning from Afghanistan in 2013. “Everyone’s wearing the same uniform and doing the same kind of thing.”