The older woman who took Harry’s virginity is now a stud vet, says pub manager
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The older woman who took Harry’s virginity in a field when she was 17 is believed to be a vet at a horse stud, The Mail on Sunday has revealed.
In his memoir, Spare, the prince revealed that his mistress “treated me like a young stud” behind a busy pub, believed to be the 17th-century Rattlebone Inn in Wiltshire.
Franck Ortet, a former manager of the pub, told the MoS last night that he believes the mystery woman was an attractive member of the local polo team who enjoyed rowdy nights in the pub with Harry and Prince William when she was in her middle.
20 years
The woman started going to Rattlebone, in the pretty town of Sherston, with the two princes and a group of players from the nearby Beaufort Polo Club in April 2000.
In his memoir, Spare, the prince revealed that his mistress “treated me like a young stud” behind a busy pub, believed to be the 17th-century Rattlebone Inn in Wiltshire.
Some ten years older than Harry, she is now an equine vet at a successful stud, caring for, perhaps appropriately, several studs.
Ortet, 48, described the woman as “very confident” and “leader” of a group of friends Harry socialized with as a teenager in the pubs near his father’s estate in Highgrove, Gloucestershire. .
“She was almost always there when Harry and William were there,” he said. ‘Very often she was sitting between the two of them, or next to Harry. She would scold him saying “Oh shut up Harry” when he was saying something that she didn’t make sense to.
They had a good laugh, very often, which made me think that she was the person. She was quite flirtatious too.
“She was lovely and was always very close to them. Every time she was in the pub, she followed them. In my personal opinion, she would be the perfect candidate.
She’s not super famous but she’s not a commoner either.
“Everyone was looking for his approval, he was the kind of person you want to make laugh. All the boys liked it.
The MoS approached the woman’s home yesterday but a man who answered the door, believed to be her husband, said he would not comment.
Leaked copies of Spare in Spain drew attention last week with Harry’s apparently foul language. “I quickly mounted her, after which he slapped my behind and sent me away,” says a translated copy of the book.
But the MoS is the first to see an English version of the book in which it is clear that the prince was using a light-hearted metaphor. Likening the encounter to being treated “like a young stallion”, he added: “Fast ride, after which she bumped my rump and sent me out to pasture.”
The MoS first revealed in 2002 how William and Harry enjoyed raucous ‘lockdowns’ at Rattlebone with their friends.
The group would hold their drinking session in the pub’s so-called ‘magic room’, a back bar away from the front windows.
During one particularly boozy night, Mr Ortet, originally from Biarritz in France but now living in Shropshire, lined up an extraordinary 36 pints of snakebite ale and cider for the princes and their friends to sip on after hours.
“We were doing this game where we had to drink three or four pints in under a minute… When you’re 20, you do nonsense like that,” Ortet said.
The party, however, turned sour one night in the spring of 2001 when a drunken Harry repeatedly hurled racial slurs at Mr Ortet, who barred him from the pub and has not seen him since.
He said he believed a field behind Rattlebone, which is surrounded by a stone wall, would have been the “perfect spot” for Harry’s brief relationship. But others are not so sure.
After Harry was banned, he and his friends began drinking at The Vine Tree in nearby Norton. But the popular pub has a large window in the middle overlooking a field, meaning revelers could have seen someone fornicating outside.
Another contender named by locals is The Cat and Custard Pot in Shipton Moyne, which also has a large field behind its car park.
Some of those who met Harry through polo are appalled by his recent behaviour.
“He lost his brain, he slid about three feet,” said Beryl Clampton, 82, who lives in Sherston. She will one day come to her senses.