Since marrying Meghan Markle, Prince Harry
has continually been in the spotlight.
But fans of the royal family have always been
fascinated by Prince William's younger brother,
who's often been seen as a bad boy.
Keep watching for Prince Harry's many highs
and lows over the years.
Despite Prince Harry's strong resemblance
to Prince Charles, rumors that Charles isn't
Harry's real father continue to swirl.
In fact, some conspiracy theorists believe
that Princess Diana's former lover, James
Hewitt, is actually the real baby daddy.
The so-called smoking gun?
Harry has red hair just like Hewitt.
According to the Daily Mail, however, Princess
Diana's bodyguard claimed in a memoir that
it's impossible for James Hewitt to be Prince
Harry's father as Prince Henry of Wales was
born on September 15th, 1984.
Meanwhile, Princess Diana didn't begin her
infamous fling with Hewitt until the summer
of 1986.
Per the report,
"The red hair that gossips so love to cite
as 'proof' is, of course, a Spencer trait,
as anyone who has ever seen a photograph of
Diana's sister, Jane, for example, as a young
woman will be able to testify."
Prince William finally married his longtime
girlfriend, Kate Middleton, now known as Catherine,
Duchess of Cambridge, on April 29th, 2011.
After Prince Harry and Kate's sister, Pippa,
interacted at the wedding, there were claims
that they were secretly dating and that the
younger Middleton sister was preparing to
snatch a royal for herself.
If you had previously hoped that the Harry
and Pippa rumors would turn into a fairytale
romance, you're probably sorely disappointed.
According to The Telegraph, Prince Harry himself
filed a formal complaint against the Daily
Star to the Independent Press Standards Organization
in 2015.
The paper eventually admitted that their story
about the alleged romance was, quote, "significantly misleading."
Apparently Harry's formal complaint was considered
"highly unusual" though.
As The Telegraph reported,
"The Royal Household's traditional stance
has been to ignore inaccurate reports rather
than draw attention to them by complaining."
Guess that one really got under his skin.
"Please."
"Boom."
Pippa Middleton is not the only woman to whom
Prince Harry was linked before meeting Meghan Markle.
In fact, the redheaded royal has a long list
of rumored former flames.
He's said to have dated pop stars, TV presenters,
actresses, and models in his time, though
few of these supposed relationships have been
officially confirmed.
In fact, Prince Harry appears to have had
just two serious girlfriends before Markle.
From 2012 to 2014, Prince Harry dated Cressida
Bonas, who was allegedly introduced to him
by Princess Eugenie.
However, the actress reportedly couldn't stand
the constant attention from the press, so
it didn't work out.
"If you find the right person and everything
feels right then, it takes time, especially
for myself and my brother."
The duke's thing with Bonas started not long
after his long relationship with businesswoman
Chelsy Davy ended.
He'd met Davy during his gap year in South
Africa, and she became his on-and-off girlfriend
from 2004 to 2011.
The Zimbabwean beauty even attended the Duke
of Sussex's wedding to Meghan Markle in 2018.
The press has probably exaggerated the facts
at times, but Prince Harry's reputation as
a hard-partying prince is definitely a well-earned
one.
In 2011, video footage of the apparently drunk
royal losing his balance and falling into
a pool made headlines.
A royal source told Sky News,
"This was little more than a man in his 20s
letting off steam."
The Palace was able to brush the whole thing
under the rug, but that tactic wasn't possible
when Prince Harry visited Las Vegas the following
year, and was pictured partying naked.
TMZ broke the story, releasing two images
of a seemingly completely nude Prince Harry.
He was allegedly seen clinging to an equally
naked young woman after losing a game of strip
pool in his VIP suite.
The Palace was forced to respond, and unsurprisingly
sided with Prince Harry.
A spokesperson told CNN,
"We remain of the opinion that a hotel room
is a private space where its occupants would
have a reasonable expectation of privacy."
The British press was asked not to publish
the embarrassing pictures, and for the most
part it complied.
The remorseful prince told ABC News in 2013,
"I probably let myself down, let my family
down, I let other people down.
But at the end of the day, I was in a private
area, and there should've been a certain amount
of privacy that one should expect."
Sources close to the Palace claimed that Prince
Charles once found out Prince Harry had been
smoking marijuana regularly in 2002, and apparently
decided that a day trip to a detox center
was in order.
According to The Guardian, Harry, who was
16 at the time, was confronted by his father
after an aide smelled cannabis in the halls
of Highgrove.
Prince Charles reportedly asked his son to
spend the day at Featherstone Lodge so he
could get a real insight into the dangers
of drug use.
The young royal wasn't going for treatment;
he was sent to the clinic for a good shock.
Prince Charles reportedly told his aides,
according to a News of the World insider,
"There is no point in hiding the truth.
These are the facts, let people make their
own judgement."
While Prince Harry allegedly copped to experimenting
with marijuana, royal sources claimed he was
careful about where he smoked it.
An aide apparently told News of the World,
"Although his friends smoked at parties at
Highgrove, Harry was mindful only to smoke
in private with close friends in the local
area."
The Palace refused to make any further comment,
stating,
"This is a serious matter which was resolved
within the family and is now closed."
It's easy to take Prince Harry's side when
he gets shaded for having a few too many drinks,
because it's nice to see a royal acting so
normal.
What isn't normal, however, is wearing a swastika
armband to a costume party, especially when
you're a member of the British royal family.
But that's what Prince Harry did in 2005.
Needless to say, many people weren't happy
about it.
After The Sun printed the shocking image across
its front page, Clarence House released a
statement, which said,
"Prince Harry has apologized for any offence
or embarrassment he has caused.
He realizes it was a poor choice of costume."
To make matters worse, this all took place
in the run-up to Holocaust Memorial Day.
What on Earth was the prince thinking?
Prince Harry began training for a career in
the British Army in 2005 and would go on to
take two tours of Afghanistan before retiring
ten years later.
According to sources cited by The Sun, the
so-called "Captain Wales" helped repel a Taliban
attack while stationed there.
Clarence House said in a statement,
"Prince Harry is very proud to serve his country
on operations alongside his fellow soldiers
and to do the job he has been trained for."
"Take a life to save a life.
That's sort of what we revolve around, I suppose."
In 2019, royal expert Duncan Larcombe revealed
that Prince Harry was "absolutely furious"
when he was forced to fly home from Afghanistan
because the media had discovered details about
his secret deployment, putting him and his
regiment at risk.
Larcombe revealed on the Yahoo video series,
The Royal Box,
"One of the other real lows in Harry’s life
was when he was dragged out of Afghanistan
because his secret deployment had hit the
papers which meant he had to come home."
The red hair is a Spencer trait, but Prince
Harry seems to have inherited more than that
from his late mother.
The prince has been doing his mother proud
in recent years, dedicating his time to many
causes that she championed, like ending the
stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS.
The People's Princess, as she was affectionately
known, would reportedly sneak out of the palace
and make visits to HIV hospices at a time
when those with the disease were largely shunned.
"I hope that a lot of my mother's talents
are shown in a lot of the work that I do."
Just months before her death, the Princess
of Wales walked through an active minefield
in Angola, and her youngest son made that
same walk in 2013.
Prince Harry said in 2019 speech via CNN,
"I was told just the other day of the positive
transformation in Huambo since my mother walked
that minefield all those years ago."
According to one royal source, Prince Harry
was allegedly barred from his local drinking
establishment when he was just a teen.
An insider claimed to the News of the World
in 2002,
"Since Princess Diana died, there has been
a family rule that when Prince Harry is home
from school, his father is at home at Highgrove.
But last summer was different.
Prince Harry was getting older, Prince Charles
was often away on business in London and Prince
William was on his gap year."
"Prince Harry fell in with a bad lot at the
Rattlebone Inn.
There are so many fights at the Rattlebone
Inn.
In fact, earlier last year Prince Harry was
involved in an incident after a fight broke
out over out-of-hours drinking and was barred
from the inn for a while."
"You know, as I said, and as I always say,
you know: work hard, play hard."
Prince Harry appears to have calmed down significantly
since then, especially now that he's married.
Prince Harry once drank champagne from a prosthetic
leg, but it wasn't in the middle of some booze-fuelled party.
In 2014, the redheaded royal teamed up with
British charity Walking With The Wounded,
joining a fundraiser trek to the South Pole.
Prince Harry was part of the Commonwealth
team, as was The Wire star, Dominic West.
The actor got to know the British royal pretty
well during the three-week journey.
West revealed at a press conference,
"[Prince Harry is a] fantastically nice chap."
According to the media outlet, West went on
to spill the beans on the wild celebrations
that took place when the team finally hit
the South Pole.
Per West,
"Two of the Aussie guys stripped naked and
ran round the pole but most of us, Harry included,
just went on a two-day bender with the Icelandic
truck drivers who had brought some lethal
home brew with them."
The prince and the actor also spent time with
Duncan Slater, a double amputee injured in
Afghanistan, during the trek, as West revealed,
"We all drank champagne out of Duncan's favourite
prosthetic legs."
Prince Harry's relationship with the paparazzi
is often described as complicated.
In truth, that's something of an understatement.
The prince, whose mother died while fleeing
from the paparazzi in Paris, has made his
opinion on them known.
In a BBC documentary in 2017, Harry said,
"I think one of the hardest things to come
to terms with is the fact that the people
that chased her through into the tunnel were
the same people that were taking photographs
of her, while she was still dying on the back
seat of the car."
In 2004, a 20-year-old Prince Harry was involved
in an alleged altercation with the paparazzi
outside of a London night club, which left
one of the paps with a bloody lip.
After a camera allegedly hit Harry in the
face as he got out of his car, the prince
apparently hit back.
A Clarence House spokesman released a statement
saying,
"In pushing the camera away, it's understood
that a photographer's lip was cut."
But according to the owner of that lip, that's
not how it went down.
Chris Uncle claimed that Prince Harry was
already safely in his car when he suddenly
lost his temper.
Uncle told The Guardian,
"Then suddenly he burst out the car and lunged
towards me as I was still taking pictures.
He lashed out and then deliberately pushed
my camera into my face.
The base of the camera struck me and cut my
bottom lip.
At the same time he was repeatedly saying,
'Why are you doing this?
Why don't you just leave me alone?'"
Prince Harry definitely doesn't like having
his photo taken.
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