Prince Harry provides perfect pick-me-up for upset lad at charity event
The Royal was chatting to kids at Fit and Fed - which lays on sports and a slap up lunch for kids at risk of going undernourished when not in school
PRINCE Harry made a crying boy's day as he swung him around during a park handball match.
Things got a little bit much for adorable Kavya Patel, six, when he could not get the ball and his side let in a goal.
But the prince was on hand to give him an affectionate rub on the head before a teacher led him off the pitch to compose himself.
When the lad ran back on he seemed to have fallen in love with the 32-year-old royal, hugging him several times.
After Harry picked him up and swung him round, Kavya kept coming back for another go.
The youngster said: "Prince Harry loves to play. It was exciting. I was flying around and swinging around and I felt dizzy.";
Describing the moment he got upset, he said: "It was because I tried to reach up and then someone just got the ball. Then it just fell in.
"Then he made me swing."
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Prince Harry chatted to kids at Fit and Fed - which lays on sports and a slap up lunch for kids at risk of going undernourished when not in school.
And he took a turn behind the plates of sandwiches and salads, even getting fingers into the couscous, at Central Park, in Newham.
He told one youngster: "So much to choose from, just take it all.
"If you like the look of it but you don't want to eat it, you can always give it to someone else."
Caring Harry even broke royal protocol by holding the hand of an elderly woman with Myeloma cancer.
Urmila Trivei, 76, who struggles to see and hear, said: "He said 'how are you?' and he asked me about the children.
"I said I was just out enjoying the park and saw him helping the children."
But Harry caught the acid tongue of mischievous Shaima Agbogbodo, ten, who joked: "It's Ed Sheeran."
Shaima, from Newham, confessed she did know who the Prince was, but added: "He looks like Ed Sheeran - I only like his songs, I don't like the way he looks.
"Prince Harry is like Ed Sheeran but 100 times better.
"Ed Sheeran is not very handsome."
Harry had a more serious message for the volunteers who gave up their time to make the event happen, including a group of lads from local boxing and martial arts gym Fight for Peace.
He told them: "It's a mentoring roll, that's really important.
"You've got to tell these kids to keep active.
"They don't want to hear it from me. They want to hear it from you.
"No pressure guys but the responsibility is on your shoulders.
"Well done you. Brilliant. You could be doing so many other things but you've given up your time for the community." The prince bonded with them over a shared love of boxing - joking: "I fight with my brother a lot."
Harry made the comment playfully but has previously confessed he did use boxing to get out his frustration as he was coming to terms with the death of his mother.
The prince said: "Is it specifically boxing at your gym? Kickboxing as well? "The best thing about that is letting out your aggression and getting fit as well." Student Rinchen Griffiths-Golha, 20, who trains at Fight for Peace, said: "He asked us how we got involved, so we said our boxing coach told us this was happening.
"He said he fights with his brother a lot." Leonas Greicius, 25, a youth worker at nearby Fight for Peace, among the group said:
"He was telling us to be good influences on the children here.
"Some kids may have older siblings who are not the best influence on them and they may get drawn into carrying knives.
"He said it's on our shoulders and it's on his shoulders too."