Who is Sasha Walpole, who took Prince Harry’s virginity, married to?

The identity of the mysterious ‘older woman’ who took Prince Harry’s virginity was sensationally revealed last night as 40-year-old Sasha Walpole. spoke after the Duke of Sussex’s reference to the one-night stand in his recent memoir Replacement.

More than two decades after the royal romp, Sasha’s husband Ian is said to be “relaxed” about the situation, having found out about it early on in their relationship.

“To be exposed in a book is surreal,” he said. “I’m here at home in Wiltshire with my husband Ian and my children and 21 years later this.”

Sasha had known Harry from his days as a groom at King Charles’s future estate in Gloucestershire, Highgrove.

At just over two years older than the Prince, she is much younger than most of the women whose names were suggested in the frenzy of speculation about her.dentition

He told his mother Lyn, now 65, and his older sister Jodie Mayhead, 42, an accountant, that he had had sex with Harry at the time.

Ian, 44, also knew that she had slept with Royal because she had confided in him when their relationship became serious.

However, the global guessing game over the name of Harry’s mystery lover meant that Sasha now had to share details of her teenage sex life with her 71-year-old father Tony.

“Dad wouldn’t have cared if I slept with a prince or a frog as long as I was safe and happy,” he says, “but as a father, he really didn’t want to know.”

It’s not the kind of thing you want to talk about, even when you’re as close as we are. Fortunately, he took it as well as my husband, who is very calm about it.

But who is Ian and how long have they been together?

Here, FEMAIL takes a look at everything we know about the couple.

Who is Ian Walpole?

According to his social media, Ian lives in Warminster, Wiltshire, and often posts about car drifting, a high-performance cornering technique, which is seen as a bond between him and Sasha.

speaking to SunThe mother-of-two revealed that she first mentioned her experience with Harry to Ian while they were having a drink, and the infamous polo photos were just emerging.

When did Ian and Sasha get married?

Ian and Sasha’s wedding day photos, released in 2016, show a colorful array of the groom’s party in neon yellow and the bride’s in deep purple.

Commenting on a tagged Instagram post of the day, Ian gushed about the gorgeous nuptials.

“What a perfect day in every way,” she wrote. “We couldn’t have done so well without the help of all the help from our friends and family.”

How did they meet?

After foot-and-mouth disease ended his hopes of working with horses, Sasha began mingling with a different group of friends whose interest lay in motorsports, not horses. It was then that she met and fell in love with her husband, Ian.

Ian is a professional drift racer and, having started dating in 2001, the couple married in 2016, eschewing the traditional white and opting instead for a bright green and purple color scheme.

They settled in Wiltshire’s Wylye Valley and have two daughters, aged five and three.

Who is Sasha Walpole?

Born into a working-class family, Sasha, 40, left school at 15 to find work in the equestrian industry.

His parents scrimped to buy him a mischievous taupe named Beano and made him a horse trailer out of an old British Telecom Luton van.

At 17, she was hired as a groom’s helper in Highgrove, a 15-minute drive from her home in the Gloucestershire village of Acton Turville.

Her overnight escapade with Prince Harry in July 2001 occurred the day before her 19th birthday, when the royal was 16.

She worked for the royal family from September 1999 until April 2001, when she left the stables to take a temporary job at the local Stretchline factory, making elastic for bras and underwear.

He was preparing to leave home, having applied for a job as a stable boy at the Sultan of Brunei’s stables in the home counties, but an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease put an end to that dream.

Sasha was born to mother Lyn and father Tony. Her mother, now 65, was a hotel cleaner, while her father, 71, did legwork.

He has an older sister, Jodie Mayhead, 42, who works as an accountant. Both Jodie and Lyn were aware of what happened between Harry and Sasha, and together they had kept it a secret for 21 years.

Outside of her job at Highgrove, Sasha met William at a comedy night starring the late Cornish comedian Jethro at Beaufort Hunt Kennels.

She subsequently befriended Harry at one of her favorite pubs, The Rattlebone Inn, in the nearby Wiltshire village of Sherston.

They bonded over stories of their escapades on the Beano horse.

‘He was like a Thelwell pony [the caricatures drawn by cartoonist Normal Thelwell for Punch magazine]. He was so naughty that he ate everything, even his own trailer light once,” she laughs.

What happened the night Harry lost his virginity?

Sasha, now a mother of two who drives diggers for a living, had invited Harry, then a 16-year-old Eton student, not 17 as Spare suggests, to the pub to celebrate his 19th birthday.

The two were such close friends that Harry had brought her a stuffed Miss Piggy and a funny birthday card with a farting whale joke on the front. He added to that with a tray of ten drinks, five each, which he saw the very drunk couple at closing time.

When the last orders were given, the young prince asked him: ‘Should we go and smoke?’ and they slipped into an adjacent field to smoke a cigarette out of sight of their security detail.

“He started kissing me,” she recalls. “It was passionate, intense. We both knew it. He went from kissing to the ground pretty quickly.

‘It was instant, hot, wham bam, between two friends. It was sparkling because we shouldn’t have. He wasn’t ‘Prince Harry’ to me, he was Harry, my friend, and the situation had gotten a bit out of hand. He felt naughty, I guess, in the sense that it shouldn’t be happening.

“We didn’t set out to do it, it wasn’t premeditated and I didn’t know I was a virgin. There were no virgin vibes, he seemed to know what she was doing. It was fast, wild, exciting. We were both drunk. It wouldn’t have happened if we weren’t.

Unfortunately, the encounter marked the end of Sasha’s friendship with Harry. From being regular drinking partners, the pair never texted, spoke or saw each other again.

Sasha added that what surprised her most about Spare’s inclusion of the anecdote was how accurate it was.

Where is she now?

Sasha is now a bulldozer driver, digging foundations for patios and driveways, following in her father’s footsteps.

It was her husband Ian who bought her her first excavator as a birthday present.

She said: ‘Now I drive a one tonne truck that goes through the gates and also a three tonne. Also, I have two dumpers.

Of Harry’s revelations, she says: “To be exposed in a book is surreal. I’m here at home in Wiltshire with my husband Ian and my children and 21 years later, this.

“I don’t think people are surprised that Harry and I have sex in a field,” he says bluntly, “but they’re usually surprised that a woman drives a bulldozer.”

It says a lot about the happily married mother of two, all good, that she’s kept her secret for so many years.

And it says a lot about teenage Harry, too, well, who started a two and a half year friendship with a girl outside the so-called Glosse Posse of rich, blue-blooded young men who made up his social circle. in rural Gloucestershire.