Off the wire
• Hong Kong stocks close higher by midday  • Backgrounder:Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence  • (Recast) Urgent: Xi urges rich countries to help developing world with no political strings attached  • Backgrounder: the Ten Principles of Bandung  • China speeds up purchase of sports assets worldwide  • Urgent: China to provide 100,000 training opportunities for Asian, African countries  • Urgent: Chinese president starts addressing Asian-African summit  • Urgent: Xi urges rich countries to help developing world with political string attached  • Urgent: Xi urges to build new type of international relations on Bandung Spirit  • New Zealand defence minister to discuss Afghanistan, Asia-Pacific security during foreign trip  
You are here: 　 Home

Prince Harry leaves Australia for Gallipoli commemorations in Turkey

Xinhua, April 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

Prince Harry is leaving Australia to attend special World War I commemorations in Turkey before returning to Australia to complete his month-long military exchange, Kensington Palace said in a statement on Wednesday.

Harry is traveling to Turkey with Australian Defense Force (ADF) personnel on a Royal Australian Air Force aircraft.

Harry's elder brother, Prince William, and his wife Kate are expecting their second child and Prince Harry will fly back to London after his duties in Turkey to welcome his new niece or nephew.

"Prince Harry will briefly return to the UK this weekend following the Gallipoli commemorations in Turkey to attend the London marathon as patron of the London Marathon Charitable Trust, " Kensington Palace said.

Prince Harry travel back to Australia next Monday to begin the second phase of his military attachment to the ADF. Endi