See you on the Flip Side, Harry
The Stables Bar one night and Flip Side burgers the next.
Prince Harry is seeing an array of Perth eateries while in WA and based at the SAS barracks in Swanbourne.
The fourth in line to the throne was in North Fremantle last night, enjoying the food at the local burger joint.
And what did he order?
The Queen Victoria Burger, naturally.
Flip Side, for the record, is in Queen Victoria Street.
As it was for The Stables the night before, it was a low-key and casually dressed Harry and group that arrived.
Prince Charles believes Harry is having a ball in Australia, partly because he's a red-haired “ranga”, and he says the 30-year-old could even be about to start wearing budgie smugglers.
Prince Harry at The Stables
Prince Harry is nearing the end of a month-long posting with the Australian army.
The Prince of Wales said Harry had essentially gone “walkabout“ alongside indigenous soldiers in the Northern Territory and the Kimberley.
“I suspect my old Harry is pretty well acclimatised by now and will probably be eating lamingtons, Vegemite sandwiches, Iced VoVos and Violet Crumble bars - and may even be threatening to buy a pair of budgie smugglers,” Prince Charles said at the British Museum after touring the Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation exhibition.
“Whatever the case, I am sure he'll be happy Down Under because of the Aussies' fondness for rangas.”
On a more serious note, Prince Charles said his younger son may, like him, have been struck by the deep spiritual relationship that indigenous Australians have with the land “which is part of their being in every sense”.
The British Museum exhibition, which opened last week and runs until August, is the first major show in the UK to present a history of indigenous Australia through objects.
The artefacts on display include a shield believed to have been collected at Botany Bay in 1770 by Captain Cook or one of his men.
Prince Charles said the exhibition explored the “immense impact” of European settlement, and dealt with difficult and painful episodes in Australian history, including dispossession, social dislocation and the stolen generations.
