‘Harry was
ally good with
the children.
e was really
pproachable’
e is known for his natural rapportwith
children and is now a doting dadtobaby
hie, so when the Duke of Sussexvisited
ngsters at Sheffield Children’s Hospitallast
k, he was in his element.
oah Nicholson, who turns two thisweek
tivated by Prince Harry’s beard andglee
ched out to give it a tug. The little boy
has spent most of his life in hospital after
being born prematurely at 27 weeks and
seemed delighted to meet the royal visitor.
“Have you never seen a beard before?”
joked Harry before telling Noah’s mother
Tracy: “He is being well behaved.”
The excited toddler promptly tookoff
his shoe and threw it away before hitting
Harry with his toy giraffe. But the smiling
Duke didn’t mind and playfully retaliated
by putting the giraffe on Noah’s head.
Speaking afterwards, Tracy, from
Grimsby, Lincolnshire, said: “Noahhas
been in hospital virtually all his life, sohe
has not seen a lot of different things.”
She said of Harry’s visit: “It was lovely,
wasn’t it? He was really good withthe
children. He was really approachable.”
MEMORY LANE
The Duke, who was at the hospital to open
new £40m wing, was following in the footstep
of his mother the Princess of Wales.Sh
visited the hospital nearly 30 years ago,i
November 1989.
Harry also met Julie Austin, a former
nurse at the hospital for 34 years who
The Duke hugs hospital mascot Theo (right).
Inside was former nurse Julie Austin, who had
met Harry’s mother on her visit in 1989. Julie
said of the Prince: “He was absolutely like his
mum.” Harry (below) is given a teddy with a
sash reading “HRH Theo” for his son Archie63