Rupert Everett Claims to Know the Real Story of How Prince Harry Lost His Virginity, Contradicting ‘Spare’ Account
03.02.2023 - 22:15
/ usmagazine.com
Spilling the tea? British actor Rupert Everett has weighed in on Prince Harry’s Spare claims about losing his virginity.
“By the way, I know who the woman he lost his virginity to is,” Everett, 63, quipped to the U.K.’s Telegraph in an interview published on Thursday, February 2. “And it wasn’t behind a pub. And it wasn’t in this country.”
The My Policeman star did not reveal the mystery lady’s identity, but noted: “I’m just putting it out there that I know.”
The Duke of Sussex, 38, for his part, has not publicly addressed Everett’s claims after previously detailing his past romantic trysts in Spare, which was published last month. In one passage, Harry referred to the night he lost his virginity as an “inglorious episode with an older woman.”
“She liked horses, quite a lot, and treated me unlike a young stallion. Quick ride, after which she’d smacked my rump and sent me to grace,” the Archewell cofounder — who married Meghan Markle, with whom he shares two children, in 2018 — wrote in his debut memoir. “Among the many things about it that were wrong. It happened in a grassy field behind a busy pub.”
At the time of Spare’s publication, Harry declined to name the mystery horse enthusiast.
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Everett, for his part, did not further specify how he knew the truth behind the military veteran’s first time or their relationship status. The My Best Friend’s Wedding actor, however, did have one particularly memorable “night out” with another royal: Princess Margaret, who was the younger sister of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
“I went to the theatre with her once in about 1986 and her lady-in-waiting as well,” Everett confessed during a May 2015 appearance on the Graham Norton Show. “I