Liz Hurley slams “ridiculous” Prince Harry rumor

Liz Hurley has hit back at speculation that she took Prince Harry‘s virginity, which arose after the publication of his memoir, Spare, previous calendar year, describing the rumor as “preposterous.”

Appearing on Look at What Happens Stay With Andy Cohen on Wednesday, the 58-12 months old actress and design was questioned about Harry and the rumor.

In his recordbreaking memoir, the prince said that he had his to start with sexual come upon with an older woman in a field powering a pub in close proximity to King Charles III‘s state dwelling when he was a teenager. Quickly later on, speculation as to who the lady could be spread on the internet, with various social-media people questioning regardless of whether it was Hurley.

“What did you make of the speculation pursuing the publication of Prince Harry’s reserve Spare that you have been the stunning older female he shed his virginity to in the countryside?” Cohen requested.

“That was ludicrous,” she responded. “He said: ‘She was English, she was older than me, it was in Gloucestershire.’ They were like: ‘Oh, it is Elizabeth!’ It was absurd.”

“It was absurd,” Hurley additional. “It is like saying to you: ‘He’s terrific-seeking, he is American.’ And they say: ‘Oh, that is Andy Cohen.'”

Furthermore, she mentioned: “I’ve under no circumstances met him in my life. In my lifetime.”

Newsweek approached associates of Prince Harry through email for comment.

In his e book, Harry recounted his decline of virginity as an “inglorious episode” in his younger adulthood, with the semi-graphic account forming the foundation of late-night time jokes and on line mockery right after Spare‘s publication.

“Inglorious episode, with an more mature female,” Harry wrote. “She preferred horses, very a lot, and addressed me not as opposed to a young stallion. Fast trip, following which she’d smacked my rump and sent me off to graze. Amongst the quite a few factors about it that have been incorrect: It occurred in a grassy field guiding a hectic pub.”

In the aftermath of Spare‘s publication in January 2023, a previous member of King Charles’ staff members on the Highgrove estate in Gloucestershire, England, mentioned in a U.K. newspaper interview that she was the female referred to in Harry’s story.

Sasha Walpole instructed The Sunlight: “I am the girl who took Harry’s virginity. It was ­literally wham-bam among two good friends. The sex was passionate and sparky due to the fact we shouldn’t have been accomplishing it. Just one detail just speedily led to yet another.”

The visual appeal on Look at What Happens Dwell is not the initial time that Hurley has denied the rumor she was in simple fact the girl joined to Harry.

In an job interview with The Situations of London in December 2022, Hurley was questioned about it in relation to the prince’s then-impending memoir. “Not me. Not responsible. Ha!” she explained.

The actress has been linked to Harry in a further way in the latest months. Both of those are named as co-claimants, alongside with numerous other higher-profile general public figures, in an unlawful-information-accumulating lawsuit filed towards Affiliated Newspapers Constrained, the publishers of the Each day Mail and The Mail on Sunday in Britain. The publisher has denied the allegations.

In 2023, a decide ruled that the team could move forward to trial with their conditions.

James Crawford-Smith is Newsweek‘s royal reporter, centered in London. You can locate him on X (formerly Twitter) at @jrcrawfordsmith and study his tales on Newsweek‘s The Royals Facebook page.

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