‘I went on TV and told everyone Prince Harry was going bald – he got his revenge’

Royal photographer Arthur Edwards has recalled how Prince Harry reacted after Edwards repeated a comment about the prince going bald during a television appearance. During a 2015 visit to a youth centre near Auckland, Harry pressed a paint-covered hand onto Edwards’s bald head, leaving a purple handprint as children laughed.

Harry said he had made the baldness remark privately to a woman who told him he looked like his father, but had not intended it for a wider audience. Edwards said Harry explained the prank was payback and later joked that he would not be far behind him in losing his hair. The anecdote appears in Edwards’s book about five decades photographing the Royal Family; the article also notes Harry’s recent speech on protecting children online.