Prince Harry Turns 21, Quietly

Britain's Prince Harry marks a milestone Thursday, his 21st birthday. But the royal with a reputation for being a bit on the wild side planned to keep the celebration relatively tame, reports CBS News Correspondent Richard Roth.

Interviewed by a British press pool during a break in his army officer training, Harry said there'd be no party. Sandhurst Military Academy's no party school.

"I'll be in a ditch somewhere," Harry said, "and I'll have 29 other guys to celebrate my birthday with. There'll probably be silence."
There's probably relief at Buckingham Palace, Roth points out.

It was a front-page embarrassment for the royal family this year when Harry showed up at a costume party dressed as a Nazi.
Roth describes that as "a stupid thing to do," and Harry now says he regrets it.

At 21, Harry says he's grown up. But asked if he's now more a "caring prince" or a "party prince," he says he's both: unapologetic about enjoying beer and cigarettes, misunderstood by the public, he says, and determined to keep his private life private.

His says his closest confidant is his brother, Prince William: "It's amazing how close we've become since my mother (Princess Diana) died. Obviously, we were close, but he is the one person on this earth I can actually talk to about anything and we understand each other and we give each other support and everything is fine."

And that includes his relationship with Camilla, wife of Harry's father, Prince Charles.

She's not, Harry says, a "wicked stepmother."

"Camilla is Camilla," Harry observes. "My father is my father. (He's) happier. She's a wonderful woman, and she's made our father very, very happy, which is the most important thing. William and I love her to bits."

But it's his mother's legacy he'd like to fulfill, he says, by returning to Africa to work in an orphanage.

Roth quotes Harry as saying, "I can't wait for the day when I can forget about everything else and concentrate on that," adding, "Well, not forget about everything else."