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Harry is set to line up on the starting blocks next to the world’s fastest man next month.
Apache pilot Harry will be in Kingston, Jamaica, on a Diamond Jubilee tour of the Caribbean and plans to meet Usain Bolt in training.
Luckily for Harry, Bolt — who will defend his Olympic 100-metre title in London this summer — will not race him. Instead he will hand out some tips on how to get the best start in a sprint.
The second-in-line to the throne is said to be “bouncing” in anticipation of his first solo overseas tour on behalf of the Queen. He will tour the sovereign’s realms of Belize, the Bahamas and Jamaica — where she is head of state — from 2-8 March.
While in Jamaica Harry will meet the country’s new prime minister Portia Simpson Miller, who last month vowed to abandon the Queen as head of state and adopt a republican form of government.
The Prince will begin his tour in Belize moving on to Jamaica and the Bahamas before undertaking a trade mission to Brazil. By the time he arrives in Rio de Janeiro on 9 March his brother the Duke of Cambridge will be in the Falkland Islands flying his RAF Search and Rescue helicopter on a six-week tour of duty.
Prince Harry, 27, will then return to training with his Apache helicopter squadron ahead of an expected deployment to Afghanistan at the end of the year.
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