Prince Harry Remembers Relationship With Caroline Flack in ‘Spare,’ Reveals His Reaction to Her Death: ‘She’d Been So Light and Funny’

06.01.2023 - 05:31 / usmagazine.com

Remembering her. Prince Harry recalled his relationship with Caroline Flack in his upcoming memoir, Spare.

The Duke of Sussex, 38, was briefly taken with the late TV presenter after meeting her at a restaurant during a night out with mutual friends in 2009.

“Flack, they called her,” Harry wrote in the book, which will be released on Tuesday, January 10, noting that they were introduced “months after [ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy] and I had gone our separate ways.”

Though the former Love Island U.K. host was a well-known TV personality in England, Harry liked that “she wasn’t taken aback that I didn’t recognize her.” The prince described her as “funny,” “sweet” and “cool,” adding that “she didn’t have a big ego.”

The twosome went out for “dinner and games” a few days after their initial meet-cute. After they began spending more time with each other, Harry and Flack were photographed together — a moment that ultimately ended their brief romance.

“Very soon after they papped me and Flack, those photos set off a frenzy. Within hours a mob was camped outside Flack’s parents’ house, and all her friends’ houses, and her grandparents’ house,” Harry recalled in Spare. “She was described in one paper as my ‘bit of rough,’ because she once worked in a factory or something. Jesus, I thought, are we really such a country of insufferable snobs?”

The Archewell cofounder noted that while he “continued to see Flack on and off,” neither one of them felt “free.”

“We kept on, I think, because we genuinely enjoyed each other’s company, and because we didn’t want to admit defeat at the hands of these arseholes,” he penned. “But the relationship was tainted, irredeemably, and in time we realized it just wasn’t worth the grief and harassment. Especially