Prince Harry wants to make Diana proud

LONDON – Britain’s Prince Harry, the youngest son of the late Princess Diana, says he wants to continue his mother’s charity work to make her proud.

Pictures of the prince cradling a baby infected with HIV in the tiny southern African kingdom of Lesotho were splashed across most of the British newspapers on Friday. “I don’t want to take over from her because I never will.I don’t think anyone can, but I want to try and carry on to make her proud,” he says in a television interview which was to be screened in Britain last night.”I believe I’ve got a lot of my mother in me, basically, and I just think she’d want us to do this — me and my brother.”In excerpts taken from the interview, papers also quoted Harry as saying the negative stories since her death in a car accident seven years ago threaten to taint the memories of her work.”The stuff that has come out has been bad … It’s just a shame, it’s a shame that, after all the good she’s done, even this far on, people can’t bring out the good in her.”All they want to bring out is the bad stuff.I mean, bad news sells.”Diana, killed in a Paris car crash in August 1997, was credited with helping to dispel many of the myths about AIDS in the 1980s and her visit to AIDS patients used to make the front pages.Harry said his involvement in AIDS work was a tribute to his mother.”I always wanted to go to an AIDS country to carry on my mother’s legacy as much as I can.”Called ‘The Forgotten Kingdom — Prince Harry in Lesotho’, the documentary was to show Harry, who turned 20 last week, working earlier this year with some of Africa’s youngest AIDS victims.The documentary shows him playing with AIDS orphans and making friends with a four-year-old boy, Mutsu Potsane, at the Mants’ase Children’s Home in Mohale’s Hoek.”He was just a really special kid … No father, no mother, really sweet, a little devil sometimes, but really, really good fun,” said Harry.Although he has not been tested, Mutsu is believed to have either the HIV virus or full-blown AIDS and is unlikely to live past the age of 10.Both Mutsu’s parents died of the illness.Harry was also filmed cradling a 10-month-old girl named Liketso, in a scene reminiscent of Diana’s humanitarian mission to another African nation, Angola, shortly before her death.The baby had been raped by her mother’s boyfriend, and Harry is seen visibly shocked as he discusses her ordeal when he visits a shelter for traumatised children near Lesotho’s capital Maseru.Harry, who is hoping to attend Britain’s Sandhurst military college, spent eight weeks in the southern African country earlier this year during his gap year.- Nampa-AFP-Reuters”I don’t want to take over from her because I never will.I don’t think anyone can, but I want to try and carry on to make her proud,” he says in a television interview which was to be screened in Britain last night.”I believe I’ve got a lot of my mother in me, basically, and I just think she’d want us to do this — me and my brother.”In excerpts taken from the interview, papers also quoted Harry as saying the negative stories since her death in a car accident seven years ago threaten to taint the memories of her work.”The stuff that has come out has been bad … It’s just a shame, it’s a shame that, after all the good she’s done, even this far on, people can’t bring out the good in her.”All they want to bring out is the bad stuff.I mean, bad news sells.”Diana, killed in a Paris car crash in August 1997, was credited with helping to dispel many of the myths about AIDS in the 1980s and her visit to AIDS patients used to make the front pages.Harry said his involvement in AIDS work was a tribute to his mother.”I always wanted to go to an AIDS country to carry on my mother’s legacy as much as I can.”Called ‘The Forgotten Kingdom — Prince Harry in Lesotho’, the documentary was to show Harry, who turned 20 last week, working earlier this year with some of Africa’s youngest AIDS victims.The documentary shows him playing with AIDS orphans and making friends with a four-year-old boy, Mutsu Potsane, at the Mants’ase Children’s Home in Mohale’s Hoek.”He was just a really special kid … No father, no mother, really sweet, a little devil sometimes, but really, really good fun,” said Harry.Although he has not been tested, Mutsu is believed to have either the HIV virus or full-blown AIDS and is unlikely to live past the age of 10.Both Mutsu’s parents died of the illness.Harry was also filmed cradling a 10-month-old girl named Liketso, in a scene reminiscent of Diana’s humanitarian mission to another African nation, Angola, shortly before her death.The baby had been raped by her mother’s boyfriend, and Harry is seen visibly shocked as he discusses her ordeal when he visits a shelter for traumatised children near Lesotho’s capital Maseru.Harry, who is hoping to attend Britain’s Sandhurst military college, spent eight weeks in the southern African country earlier this year during his gap year.- Nampa-AFP-Reuters