Thief steals Prince Harry's phone in Lesotho

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

MASERU (AFP) — Britain's Prince Harry, briefly dumped by his girlfriend last year over compromising text messages, was breathing a sigh of relief on Friday after being reunited with a cell phone stolen in Lesotho.

Sources in the Lesotho Defence Force, who have been providing Harry with security during his ongoing visit to the landlocked African kingdom, have revealed the phone was stolen while he was at a nightclub last week but was later recovered from the thief.

"Harry was at a nightclub in Butha Buthe when the thug stole his phone and ran away with it," said one source on condition of anonymity.

"When we eventually found the culprit it took quite some time to explain to him that he had stolen from the prince. To him Prince Harry was just one of those...