Prince Harry at a pool party surrounded by girls again... but this time he's fully dressed

 
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Ross Lydall @RossLydall6 September 2012

Prince Harry was today once more a star of the pool as he cheered on Britain’s Paralympic swimmers.

Harry, 27, saw Ellie Simmonds book herself a place in the 50m finals tonight and proved a massive hit with the Paralympic GB swimming squad.

They clambered over seats to shake hands and have their picture taken with the third in line to the throne.

At one stage Harry’s private secretary, ex-SAS officer Jamie Lowther Pinkerton, was even roped in as photographer to take snaps of Harry with the swimmers.

Nyree Kindred, one half of British swimming’s “golden couple”, chatted to Harry as her husband Sascha qualified for the 50m freestyle in second place, after having won a silver medal in the 200m yesterday.

Red-haired Jessica-Jane Applegate, 16, showed Harry her gold medal from Saturday’s 200m final and other swimmers who grabbed a word with the Prince included Hannah Russell, who has won silver and bronze, and Susie Rodgers, who has a bronze.

But Harry appeared determined to behave himself after the furore generated by him being pictured naked in Las Vegas two weeks ago and taking part in wild pool parties.

Even as the aquatics centre crowd cheered massively for Simmonds and as Britain claimed the first and second places in a 400m freestyle heat, Harry remained seated during the 40 minute visit and kept an eye on the scoreboard.

He saw foreign swimmers twice break Paralympic records and saw Stephanie Millward send the crowd wild as she dominated the 400m freestyle heat, with 14-year-old Amy Marren, who was born in Newham, coming second.

Harry’s morning at the Paralympics - he is a patron of Paralympics GB alongside his brother and sister-in-law the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - began with a half-hour visit to the goalball.

Wearing the Paralympics GB white and blue tracksuit and red trainers, he saw Britain’s women scored a resounding victory over Denmark.

Before the match he was shown the match ball – which is filled with bells to enable the partially sighted players to judge its movement.

The game is played in silence and Harry politely applauded and smiled as each of the goals was scored.

The atmosphere in the Copper Box was akin to Centre Court at Wimbledon, with tension building between every break in play. Those breaks were almost always greeted with chants of “GB, GB”.

When the match ended, Harry rose to give Britain’s women a standing ovation.

The team were helped to victory by Anna Sharkey’s hat-trick of goals, with spectators chanting “Sharkey, Sharkey” as she was substituted around a minute from the end.

Last night he joked he was “never one to be shy in coming forward” as he attended the WellChild Awards at a hotel in Park Lane.

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