Whatever next for Prince Harry who’s now a right royal asset?

Prince Harry has turned into a fine young man.

At one point it looked as though he was going completely off the rails with those bawdy parties in LA and all the accompanying lurid headlines.

No one wanted another Prince Andrew, so it was welcome news when he turned his back on the party scene and knuckled down to being a soldier fighting for Queen and country, (or granny and country in his case).

This week, he joined Afghanistan war heroes to pay tribute to British soldiers who lost their lives in the conflict, when the Bastion War Memorial was unveiled.

It was dismantled from its original site in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, and made into a permanent structure and focal point at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.

It bears the names of all of the 453 UK members of the armed forces who lost their lives in Afghanistan.

Prince Harry said: “The names of the fallen shine in gold, as they do in our memories”.

He laid a wreath of poppies with the message: “The fathers, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters on this memorial will be forever in our thoughts and prayers, as are those who miss them so dearly”.

He spoke with genuine emotion and feeling and there was no doubt these words came from the heart.

This month, Harry leaves the army after serving for 10 years and seeing action twice in Afghanistan, where he was an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner.

He now begins a new chapter in his life.

He has already shown a flair for organising worthwhile events such as the hugely successful Invictus Games last year, and he already plans to devote much of his time to helping military charities and making life better for those wounded in mind and body.

Harry is 30 years old now and has hinted he wants to settle down, just like his older brother.

He obviously sees how happy and contended William has become since his marriage to Kate and the births of Prince George and baby Charlotte.

Harry has had some high-profile relationships in the past and some of the young women concerned have done very well out of their association with royalty, forging their own careers off the back of all the attention.

It must be very difficult for him to find a girl who wants to be with him for the right reasons and not because she is dazzled by the prospect of global fame and riches.

He’s come a long way from the bereft little boy who lost his mum Princess Diana, to the naughty playboy Prince, and now he has become a real asset to the royal family.