Brit rapper Dizzee Rascal, real name Dylan Kwabena Mills, has revealed that he threatened to punch Prince Harry in the face after his performance at Hyde Park’s Wireless Festival.

Rascal, 23, said that the incident took place after the Prince and his three friends made their entrance while performing boxing moves, and giving “street handshakes” on their way to meet the performer.

“I never saw that one coming,” the Telegraph quoted Rascal as saying.

“Then Prince Harry came in and was joking around and being a bit cheeky, so I told him, ‘If you weren’t royalty I would’ve punched you in the face by now,’ and he seemed to like that,” he added.

According to the singer, Prince Harry fit in well backstage because he is a “naughty boy”, and he thinks the Prince and his friends are “probably a bit wilder” than his own crowd.

Rascal will release his new single ‘Holiday’ on August 31.

Twenty years and four months after his mother had New Yorkers in ruptures during a royal visit, Prince Harry, too captured the fancy of the city’s residents.

His visit mainly focused on charity and a commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks. It was described as a somber visit, clearly designed to modify the prince’s tabloid reputation as a party hopper with a penchant for blunders.

Prince Harry laid a wreath at the site of the World Trade Center within hours of his arrival from London on Friday. He also spoke to firefighters and relatives of 9/11 victims and looked over blueprints for the site’s reconstruction.

A memorial to the 67 British people killed at the WTC was dedicated in the British Garden at Hanover Square, where he planted magnolia and attended a private meeting with victims’ families.

In the afternoon, he was accompanied by a British soldier, Joe Townsend, who lost both of his legs in Afghanistan, to the Veterans Affairs Hospital on East 23rd Street.

He visited the prosthetics section and met wounded veterans.

On Saturday, Harry is scheduled to visit the Harlem Children’s Zone with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, who is his co-patron in a charity called Sentebale. In the afternoon, the prince, an accomplished polo player, is to take part in a match on Governors Island, the proceeds of which will go to the American Friends of Sentebale.

Harry is scheduled to leave for home right after the match. The program has left little time for personal amusement.

Peter Brown, a British publicist in New York who once ran the Beatles’ management company and advised the Consulate on Princess Diana’s visit in February 1989, said it all sounded familiar.

When he was helping to plan Harry’s mother’s trip, the directive was clear: “She must at no time look like she was enjoying herself.”

However, Diana did manage to enthrall, wowing an audience at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and attending a banquet at the World Financial Center. But she also toured the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side and cuddled children with AIDS — pointedly without donning gloves — in the pediatric unit at Harlem Hospital Center.

Prince Harry is set to make his first official visit to the US next month.

The 24-year-old royal will fly off to New York for participating in a charity polo match and will also take part in a series of official engagements.

The Prince will raise funds for Sentebale, the charity supporting African Aids orphans he set up in memory of his late mother.

The news of Harry’s visit comes in line with the revelation last month that Sentebale had seen public donations slump by 84 per cent to 250,000 pounds.

The company’’s accounts show that by the end of August last year the charity came close to going broke with only 53,000 pounds left in the bank.

The charity exhibition match will take place at the Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic on New York’’s historic Governors Island on May 30th.

The event is the first of a series of events on Governors Island, in commemoration with the 400th anniversary of New York, reports The Telegraph.

Meanwhile, Clarence House declined to comment on the issue.