Nottingham will play host to royalty today when Prince Harry arrives for a whistle-stop tour of the city.
The much-loved prince will visit the city centre, Old Basford and St Ann's, during a trip intended to inspire young people. It will be his first visit to Nottingham.
The rebellious 28-year-old has rarely been out of the spotlight – naked photos of him partying in Las Vegas surfaced online last year and his relationship with Cressida Bonas has been closely followed.
He has established himself as the cheeky chappie of the royal family. At 17 he admitted smoking cannabis and drinking alcohol aged 16, and was consequently sent by his father to a drugs rehabilitation clinic for a day.
And at the age of 20 Harry was snapped wearing a swastika armband to a friend's fancy dress party, two weeks before the Queen led Holocaust memorial ceremonies. The year previous he got into a scuffle with a photographer outside a London nightclub.
And in 2009 he was forced to apologise for using offensive language to describe an Asian member of his army platoon. The row over his comments was triggered by a video obtained and made public by the News of the World.
Later that year he almost felt the "wrath" of rapper Dizzee Rascal, who at a backstage meeting joked he would have punched Harry if he wasn't a royal.
Harry's earliest notable outing came at the funeral of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, who died in a car crash in Paris in 1997. He walked fists clenched behind the funeral cortège, accompanied by his brother and father.
The following year the prince enrolled at Eton College, where he took his GCSEs and A-levels . He left with a grade B in his art A-level and a D in geography.
He had dropped his third A-level subject, history of art, after taking the AS-level exam.
Prince Harry then took a gap year during which he visited Australia, Argentina and Africa.
The redhead, christened Prince Henry Charles Albert David, joined the Army aged 21. He entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in May 2005 and was commissioned in April the following year as a Second Lieutenant in the Household Cavalry (Blues and Royals).
Within weeks of his arrival at Sandhurst a Sun journalist carrying a fake bomb managed to gain access to the academy, prompting a security review.
Prince Harry was promoted from Second Lieutenant to Lieutenant in April 2008 and fought on the frontline in Afghanistan before training as an Apache helicopter pilot.
The prince, who spent 10 weeks serving in Helmand Province, was withdrawn amid concerns for his safety after news of his unpublicised deployment leaked.
His deployment made him the first royal in more than 25 years to serve in a war zone.
In an interview recorded in Afghanistan prior to his withdrawal, the prince said he had enjoyed being away from the press and England. "I don't want to sit around Windsor, because I generally don't like England that much and it's nice to be away from all the press and the papers," he said.
The prince has also been heavily involved in charity work. He publicly supports Help For Heroes and ABF The Soldiers' Charity, and is a patron of Walking With The Wounded.
He co-founded the charity Sentebale with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho in memory of their mothers to support orphans and vulnerable children in Lesotho.
He has close ties to the Princes' Charities Forum, and following the Asian tsunami of 2004 he and Prince William helped raise money for survivors by playing in a charity polo match.
The brothers were also shown working as volunteers at a Red Cross centre, packing aid packages for those affected.
Harry received the Atlantic Council's 2012 award for distinguished humanitarian leadership, in recognition of his charitable work supporting service personnel.
The soon-to-be uncle, who is third in line to the British throne, has a net worth of £28 million according to the May 2011 Sunday Times' UK Young Millionaires list.
