By
Rebecca Evans and Rebecca English
Last updated at 1:54 AM on 31st December 2011
Bad weather may have temporarily put his skiing holiday on ice, but that wasn’t going to stop Prince Harry having fun.
He decided to amuse himself instead by throwing snowballs from a balcony at unsuspecting passers-by in the Swiss resort where he is staying.
The 27-year-old prince, who is third in line to the throne, ducked quickly to avoid detection after hurling each snowball on to the busy street below.
Fire! The prince lets fly as his friend, Tom Inskip, right, looks on at their hotel in Klosters where Harry will celebrate New Year with his friends
A snowball-wielding Harry prepares to launch at a target, left before readying to strike, right, whilst Inskip amused by the prince’s antics
With a cigarette in one hand and a
snowball in the other, the Army Air Corps helicopter pilot, who wore a
grey hooded top, was beside himself with laughter as he and best friend
Tom ‘Skippy’ Inskip, 25, enjoyed their childish prank on the restaurant
terrace of a boutique hotel.
An
onlooker said: ‘They seemed to be having the time of their lives,
giggling like schoolboys. I saw at least one snowball hit someone, but
whenever people would look up to see where the missile had come from,
they would hit the deck.’
Harry flew to Geneva on an easyJet flight on Thursday with a group of male friends for a New Year break, his first ski holiday since a family trip to Klosters in 2005.
But he was unable to hit the slopes yesterday after heavy snow, high winds and avalanche warnings shut the ski lifts.
On Thursday night he was spotted in one of the resort’s nightclubs, dancing energetically to house music and sharing a magnum of vodka and a magnum of champagne with his friends.
One reveller said: ‘There were girls flocking round his table throughout the night, and he didn’t seem to mind.’
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Keep flying the flag for us – Good shot old boy!!
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thats the fun prince lol
good to see him having fun 🙂
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For someone who is supposed to be in the army he certainly has an awful lot of time off? Where’s his regiment?
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Why do the male friends of the younger Royals always look like they have got a bad smell under their noses? Don’t these people know any proper ordinary people?
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Nasty pair of posh oiks…
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I know what, let’s ban playing in the snow all together. And sledging. And making snowmen. it’s all soooooooooo dangerous! Accidents happen. Let’s not make out that a snowball fight is as bad as being shot
– Jenny, Manchester, 31/12/2011 3:10
It’s only a snowball fight if both people are playing and the person you are throwing the snow at is throwing it back at you. He is throwing snow and hiding. At least that’s according to the article – as I look closer I have to agree with the people who say these pictures look photoshopped. It looks like the ones of Harry were taken at a different time and superimposed in. Look at the line around him.
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-Luke,Nottingham : ” he’s certainly got the looks unlike his brother “………..I agree, infact I have rarely seen two brothers look so unalike.
– Jyoti, SW1, 31/12/2011 3:13
i have four lovely daughters and they are as like as chalk and cheese, you can always be sure of your mum but dad???.
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Wow, what is wrong with all you people writing such miserable and down right ridiculous comments. It’s a snow ball, nothing more than a little light hearted fun. I can guarantee the majority of you who have written negative things have done far worse in your lifetime that have caused others more emotional or physical hurt than a simple snowball. As for those who are commenting because of his age and the fact you think he is immature, take the humour of an awful lot of successful comedians, much older but get paid to be far worse.
Lighten up…you’re a really long time dead!
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But if someone threw a snowball at Harry from their balcony they would be arrested for assaulting a royal with a frozen object! TREASON! Orf with their heads!
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He’s in Verbier, not Klosters. Sort it out DM. He was in Public- Guy Pelly’s new club last night with his cousins
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