Harry Takes Polo Match Tumble

Prince looks stunned then awkward
By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff
Posted Jun 28, 2010 3:13 AM CDT

A feisty polo pony put the "bucking" in Buckingham Palace yesterday as he dumped Prince Harry on his royal bum in the middle of a match on Governor's Island in New York City. The prince looked stunned, then extremely awkward, then quickly remounted and continued on in front of an applauding celebrity-packed crowd. "He looked quite heroic," a fan told the New York Daily News. Harry was playing to raise money for children with AIDS in Africa. His team was defeated by an Argentina squad.
(More polo match stories.)

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