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Prince Harry has sensationally admitted to using cocaine “a few” times during his wildest partying years.
Writing in his memoir Bomb Spare, which has been published in Spain ahead of its UK publication next week, the Duke of Sussex describes how he was dragged into the office of an anonymous member of the Royal Household staff during the Jubilee. of Gold from his grandmother, the Queen, in 2002 after a journalist questioned the Palace about his drug-taking habits.
Earlier in his autobiography, Harry describes smoking cannabis and drinking, but has revealed for the first time how he was offered a line of cocaine during a hunting weekend.
Admitting that he lied to the Royal Household staff during his interrogation, Harry says that taking cocaine “wasn’t very fun” and that he did it partly to be different and because he was a “seventeen-year-old willing to try almost anything that bothers me.” “. the established order.
Based on translations obtained by MailOnline and also reported by Sky News, he writes: “It wasn’t very funny and it didn’t make me feel particularly happy the way others seemed to feel, but it made me feel different and that was my main goal. To feel . To be different.’
Prince Harry has sensationally admitted to using cocaine multiple times. Pictured in 2002
Harry and William with their grandmother the Queen during the 2002 Golden Jubilee
Harry also describes smoking cigarettes and cannabis, and drinking on the Windsor Castle golf course, while studying at Eton.
Stories of the duke’s exploits as “party prince” have been widely reported over the years. Speaking on Dax Shepard’s podcast in 2021, Harry laughed as he recalled his infamous party trip to Las Vegas, where nude photos of him were leaked to the press.
Undated photograph issued by Penguin Random House of the cover of the Duke of Sussex’s memoir
In 2012, Harry enjoyed a wild weekend in Las Vegas, where he was photographed wearing just a necklace while a naked girl hid behind him after a game of pool in his VIP suite.
During Dax’s ‘Armchair Expert’ show, the royal was discussing how people are more likely to run away and riot after being told ‘you need help’ when the presenter brought up the notorious trip, joking: ‘[Or] take your clothes off in Las Vegas’.
It comes after the Duke of Sussex claimed that he and his brother begged their father not to marry the now queen consort and that he wondered if she would one day be his ‘evil stepmother’.
Harry’s autobiography Spare reveals that Camilla was known to the royal siblings as the “other woman”.
Kensington Palace and Buckingham Palace have refused to comment on the leaked claims from Harry’s book that emerged five days before the explosive and revealing memoir is released in the UK.
The book includes details of when he was first introduced to Camilla.
The duke reportedly claims that he and his brother had separate meetings with her before she married the now king in 2005.
He said that seeing her for the first time was like avoiding pain while injecting himself, writing: ‘This is nothing. Close your eyes and you won’t even feel it. Harry also alleges that Camilla seemed “bored” during the meeting and wondered if she would be his “evil stepmother” in the future.
Harry attending the after party at the China White club on International Cartier Day in 2004
Also in the book, the duke claims that he and his brother were willing to forgive her if she could make Charles happy, adding, “We saw that, like us, he was not.”
“We were able to recognize the vacant stares, the empty sighs, the frustration always visible on his face.”
Harry also claims that he and William told Charles they would welcome Camilla into the family on the condition that he not marry her and “begged” him not to.
He alleges that his father did not respond to his pleas.
The siblings feared that Camilla would be unfairly compared to their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, Harry also claims.
Other revelations in the book include the duke’s claims that a campaign was launched for Charles to marry Camilla and that her stepmother leaked details of her conversation with William to the press.
The Guardian, which said it was able to obtain a copy of Spare despite tight pre-release security, reported that Harry claims William physically attacked him and knocked him to the ground during a furious confrontation over the Duchess of Sussex.
Harry writes: ‘(William) called me by another name, then came to me. It all happened so fast. Very fast. He grabbed me by the neck, ripped my collar and threw me to the ground.
‘I landed in the dog bowl, which broke under my back, the pieces cut me. I stood there for a moment, stunned, then stood up and told her to come out.
Other reported revelations include how the brothers call each other ‘Willy’ and ‘Harold’ and that Charles begged his sons during a tense meeting after the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral: ‘Please, boys. Don’t make my later years a misery.
The book comes just weeks after Harry and Meghan’s bombshell Netflix documentary, in which Harry said he was terrified when William yelled and yelled at him at a tense Sandringham summit in 2020.