Harry: "Playboy Prince" No Longer?

(CBS)  Prince Harry wraps up his whirlwind, 36-hour first official visit to the United States Saturday with a visit to a community group in New York City's Harlem, and a charity polo match.

A stop at the World Trade Center site was among the highlights after he arrived Friday.

Observers say image-polishing is high on Harry's list of priorities during the visit.

Buckingham Palace "is determined that the royal wild side won't surface on this trip," says CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer.

One of Harry's polo teammates on Saturday, Emma Tomlinson, told CBS News, "It's very important to Prince Harry that money is raised for this wonderful charity, Sentebale."

Sentebale, founded by Harry in the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho, helps finance homes and education for AIDS orphans, a cause first embraced Harry's mother, the late Princess Diana.

Royals watcher and entertainment journalist Katie Nicholl of the British newspaper the Mail on Sunday said that, as of when she spoke on The Early Show Saturday Edition, the trip had been "a huge success" for Harry.

She told co-anchor Chris Wragge, "I was looking at all of the official engagements (Friday), and he really suited the part. I mean, he has very much the same actions as his mother. At one point, he crouched down to greet a little girl whose family had been lost in 9/11. And you just thought, 'Harry really has this personal touch.' And I think it's something that's going to endear the world over to him and the royal family. I think it's very important."

Harry was "completely engaging" on Friday, Nicholl continued. "I spoke to him afterwards and he said how amazing it was for him to meet these people. I really think it's important that he's come over here. ... I think it's gone very well for him."

Nicholl said she doubts reminders of Harry's well-known checkered past will surface during Harry's brief New York stay: "I just don't think it would happen on this trip. The queen has paid for it. ... This is a very, very serious trip. This is not a playboy prince. And I think Harry, more than anyone else, wants to prove that point.

"I think Harry has matured massively over the last few years. Yes, there have been mistakes, there have been errors along the way. But the most important thing is that he's learned from them. And, what he said last night is this that this all about Sentebale for him. ... That, actually, is hugely important for him."

[stn_sage]

Listen! It takes MORE THAN just being on your " best behavior " for 36 hours to PROVE you've matured and moved beyond your persona as a spoiled, undisciplined, self-centered, irresponsible, selfish elitest young male from an in-bred but outmoded European ruling class family!

When he can act accordingly day after day, month to month, THAN we'll know he's changed, and the public will grant him the respect that he's EARNED, and not that which he routinely thinks is OWED to him!

When that day comes, he'll be on this way to being a true leader.

[honestindividual]

Please take me off your "list" of commentators; I don't appreciate your leftist position. Thank you.

[armyoftwelve]

I never knew that Prince Harry posed in Playboy.

[cmp271]

Harry is such a nice guy..I hope he does get rid of all that partying, and carousing. He is still a young guy and single. Thank goodness he dropped that bimbo Chelsea. How dare she treat him the way she did, and what was wrong with him for allowing it, and publicly!! It just shows how dysfunctional the family is. I hope he has gotten co-dependency counseling, the whole family needs it!

I hope Harry is very successful with this charity of his. He truly is his Mothers son. He is the better looking of the two...and that lovely red hair of his-from the milkman I am sure!

Harry has had a lot to deal with in his young life and deserves understanding and forgiving for his wild ways. How many of us have a Mother who was adored by the whole world, only to be bumped off by the "machine" because she was in someones way? what did happen to that white fiat-we never hear about it anymore being in the tunnel too???? Harry knows this and it would bother him. The drink is just a way to escape it all, and it is time to grow up and realize the best way to beat those who harmed his Mother is to be a success at what he does, and represent what she also was, in his own way. Harry will succeed at whatever he chooses to do. May Goddess keep both he and his brother safe. )O(

William will marry Kate next year!!! It will be announced soon!!!

Harry will marry someone who is going to be splendid, and exactly who he needs. Thankfully Koo Stark is too old for him now, she was his Uncle Andrew's treat!!!

[kerry4ever]

"Playboy Prince no longer" until the next spliff!

[valh1]

He is adorable.