The Toronto Sun reports:
His Royal Highness let 500 students at Regent Park/ Duke of York Public School in on a little secret yesterday.
"I remember when I was a small person, about your age, and I used to think that reading was really rather boring," Prince Andrew told the kids.
But that changed when he found author Rudyard Kipling's novels, like The Jungle Book.
The same thing happened when his daughters, Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice, discovered a hero of their own.
"Then Harry Potter came along," the Duke of York said, to giggles from the kids. "And Harry Potter has transformed their desire to read. I now can't stop them."
Prince Andrew, the first royal visitor ever to the school, arrived yesterday morning, toured the building and officially opened a kindergym for the little kids.
The kindergarten students were then allowed in and didn't even notice the famous visitor or all the press cameras. They went straight to the climbers.
Peter David Spragge and John Miles, two Grade 7 students from Greenwood College, a private school that raised more than $2,000 for the gym, answered the prince's questions about the gym.
"I really like his accent," Spragge, 12, said. "You have to have an accent if you're a prince."
The kindergarten to Grade 6 students at the school couldn't wait to meet Queen Elizabeth's third child, and all dreamt about what it might be like to be royalty.
"I think he has a crown," said Grade 3 student Shawna Luff, 8, before the royal entrance. "He gets money and rings and jewelry and race cars."
Andie Khalu, 8, said Andrew, who's on an unofficial Canadian tour, is cool and nice, but didn't seem like a prince.
"He wasn't really wearing his royalty stuff like a crown or a cape," the Grade 2 girl said. "But I still like him."
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