Robyn Curnow: There will be no princely party, instead, Harry, who is third in line to the British throne, says he will be spending his 21st birthday on training exercises at the Sandhurst Military Academy.

Prince Harry: I will be in a ditch or somewhere and I have 29 other guys to celebrate my birthday with probably silence say Happy Birthday or something like that.

Robyn Curnow: Not that he minds, Prince Harry says he loves his new army life.

Prince Harry:There's something about me. I do enjoy running down the ditch full of mud, firing bullets, it's the way I am. I love it.

Robyn Curnow: The youngest son of Prince Charles and the late Diana, Princess of Wales, says even as a child, he wants to be a soldier. Now he is in the army, he doesn't want special treatment because he is a prince.

Prince Harry: The last thing I want to do is to help my soldiers sent away to Iraq or wherever's that, and for me to be held back at home turning my thumbs.

Robyn Curnow: As he prepares for a career on the front line, Prince Harry is already battling another kind of war with a tabloid media that paints him as a partying wild child.

Prince Harry: I'd love to do with the common newspaper. you know, out school, right. This is what happened last night. No, this is what happened .

Robyn Curnow: He jokes about setting the record straight. But Harry says he does find it is hard being in the spotlight.

Prince Harry: I don't think it's really a case of dealing with it. Uhm, then if you can't deal with it, you just get along with it.

Robyn Curnow: Growing into his royal role with the support of his older brother Prince William.

Prince Harry: It's amazing how close we've become. You know, I mean ever since our mother died, we are seriously close. Uh, but he is the one person, on this earth, through, I can natually really, you know, we can talk about anything.

Robyn Curnow: He and his brother recently got a new step-mother, Camilla Parker Bowles, now the Duchess of Cornwall, a second marriage that not all in Britain support.

Prince Harry: Camilla is Camilla. My father is my father. Happier.

Robyn Curnow: But despite some public opposition to the marriage, the new Duchess has the young princes' support.

Prince Harry: She has made our father very, very happy, which is the most important thing. William and I love it bits.