‘Drunk’ Prince Harry ‘accidentally triggered panic alarm at St James’s Palace’, ex soldier reveals
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Prince Harry once accidentally set off a panic alarm at St James’s Palace when he returned worse after a night out and fell into a guard’s box, it has been claimed.
A former soldier recounted how the prince fell into the sentry box and accidentally set off the alarm, prompting an armed response from palace guards and armed police.
The Duke of Sussex, who was 27 at the time of the alleged incident in 2012, was described as a “blind drunk” by the soldier, who served in the army for more than a decade before being injured by shrapnel from an explosive device. makeshift in Afghanistan.
Prince Harry was also in the military at the time of the incident, but is believed to have been off duty and partying with civilian friends, the Sun reports.
Prince Harry, who was 27 at the time of the alleged incident in 2012, was described by the soldier as a “blind drunk”.
Sentry boxes, seen at most royal residences including Buckingham Palace, are manned by guards during the day but kept empty at night (Pictured: Guard at Buckingham Palace, image archive)
The veteran told the newspaper how the alarm went off around midnight, prompting three members of the palace QRF (Quick Response Force) and two armed Metropolitan Police officers to rush to the scene.
There they found a ‘drunk blind’ Prince Harry, who had collapsed inside the box.
The ex-soldier said: ‘I was slurring my words, it didn’t make any sense.
“When we tried to pick him up, he started yelling, ‘Get off me, I don’t need help.'”
“He was pushing us and being very abusive.”
The group helped the prince back to his apartment before letting him sleep.
A commander then called the guard room the next morning and insisted that the incident be kept secret, the former soldier says.
Sentry boxes, seen at most royal residences including Buckingham Palace, are manned by guards during the day but kept empty at night.
Prince Harry’s former party lifestyle has been well documented and includes an infamous trip to Las Vegas in which he was seen wearing nothing more than a necklace after a game of pool.
But in Spare, she hinted that this lifestyle was a reaction to her troubled upbringing, describing how she took cocaine as a teenager to try to feel something. He wrote: ‘That was my main goal. To feel.’
In the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s recent Netflix docuseries, Prince Harry described how he didn’t cry for years after the death of his mother, Princess Diana.
Prince Harry pictured on a night out at London’s Cuckoo Club with his brother, Prince William, in 2006.
Prince Harry on patrol in the deserted town of Garmsir, southern Afghanistan, in 2008
Harry reportedly detailed the startling revelation in his memoir, Spare, which leaked days before it was published.
The source also referred to Harry’s revelations in Spare’s controversial memoir that he killed 25 Taliban members in combat.
He said death counts were something “never talked about” and accused the prince of fanning the flames of political uncertainty in Afghanistan.
The Duke of Sussex, known as “Captain Wales” in the army, wrote that he did not think of those killed “as people” but as “chess pieces” he had removed from the board.
The prince was first posted to Helmand province as a forward air controller in 2007, but his first tour of duty was cut short when an Australian magazine mistakenly broke a media embargo.
However, he returned in 2012 with the Ministry of Defense publicizing his second deployment on the understanding that the media would allow him to continue the job at hand.
After learning to fly Apache helicopters, Harry was posted to Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan in 2012, where he stayed for 20 weeks.
Representatives for Prince Harry have been contacted for comment.