england's handsome prince harry turns 21 today (september 15) and says he will definitely not give up his "party prince" image because "i am who i am."
"does everyone expect me to be just the caring person and not to have a cigarette, not to have a beer?" he asked.
now attending army officer training at sandhurst military academy, harry plans to keep his "child streak" but also says he will not be a social butterfly who leads a meaningless life, or a royal who "just finds a lame excuse to go abroad and do all sorts of sunny holidays."
the prince told a reporter that he has caught the "infantry bug" and is determined to be a real soldier. "i do enjoy running down a ditch full of mud, firing bullets. it's the way i am. i love it," he said. "there's no way i'm going to put myself through sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country."
In the interview, Harry also spoke fondly of his new stepmother, Camilla Parker Bowles, who married his father, Prince Charles, last spring: "She's not the wicked stepmother. She's a wonderful woman and she's made our father very, very happy," and he and his brother, Prince William, "love her to bits."
