Oops! Prince Harry falls from his pony TWICE during annual fundraising polo match

Prince Harry took not one but TWO right royal tumbles today as he fell off his polo pony twice in one match. The prince was thrown head-first off his pony about 20 minutes into the match for his charity Sentebale in Cape Town.

He fell off a second time right at the end of the match as his team Sebtebale lost 8-7 to the opposing team named after sponsors Royal Salute.

It was such an unusual occurrence that the captain of the opposing team and Harry's friend Argentinian polo player Nacho Figueras took the mickey out of Harry by pretending to fall himself.

The royal was taking part in the sixth annual Sentebale polo match - an annual fixture that raises thousands every year for AIDS charity he set up in memory of his late mother - when he fell.

This year's game is being held in South Africa for the first time at Val de Vie Estate, a stunning polo estate in the heart of the scenic Paarl-Franschhoek Valley in the Western Cape.

Riding out in the number 2 shirt for his team Sentebale, Harry looked at home on his polo horse in the searing 30C heat.

The game comes just two days after Harry, 31, opened the new £2 million Mamohato children's centre which will now be Sentebale's base in Lesotho where they help the child victims of the country's AIDS epidemic.

The tiny landlocked Kingdom in the centre of South Africa has the second-highest HIV infection rate in the world with 23% of the population carrying the virus and as a result one in three children are orphans.