Zulu Dance Ends Harry’s Trip Young Prince Returns To England After S. Africa School Visit With Charles

Britain’s 13-year-old prince watched shyly Monday as adolescent girls per formed a Zulu dance during a visit with his father to a rural high school in South Africa.

Prince Harry’s trip to Africa marked his first public activity since the funeral of his mother, Princess Diana, who died in a car crash in Paris on Aug. 31.

The journey also fulfilled one of Diana’s wishes, for her sons to see Africa. Diana’s brother, Earl Spencer, lives in Cape Town, but officials did not say if Harry visited his uncle.

At Ubuhlebemvelo High School in KwaZulu-Natal province, Charles and Harry watched the bare-breasted girls, wearing black and white string skirts, perform the traditional dance.

Harry talked quietly to his father during the performance. When a teacher spoke to Harry, he only smiled. He walked shyly with his left thumb in his pocket, scratching the soil with his foot.

Charles arrived in southern Africa on Wednesday to begin a three-nation tour. While Charles visited Swaziland and Lesotho, Harry went on safari in Botswana with a school friend and his former nanny, Tiggy Legge-Bourke.

Prince William, Harry’s older brother, remained behind in Britain because of school.

Most of Harry’s six-day visit was without media coverage, a controversial issue after his mother died while speeding away from photographers.

On Saturday, the two princes reunited for a public meeting with Britain’s top female music group, the Spice Girls, at a concert in Johannesburg.

Harry left South Africa later Monday to return to school in England, while Charles attended a banquet in Durban.

In a dinner speech, Charles referred to an often violent struggle for political supremacy between South Africa’s ruling African National Congress and the local Zulu nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party that has rocked the province in recent years.

“The rich ethnic and political mix in KwaZulu-Natal should surely be a cause of strengthened pride, not division and death,” Charles said.