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The older woman who took Harry’s virginity in a field when he was 17 is believed to be a vet at a horse stud, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
In his memoir Spare, the prince revealed that his lover ‘treated me not unlike a young stallion’ behind a busy pub – thought to be the 17th Century Rattlebone Inn in Wiltshire, according to locals.
Franck Ortet, a former manager at the pub, last night told the MoS that he believes the mystery woman was an attractive member of the local polo set who enjoyed rowdy nights at the pub with both Harry and Prince William when she was in her mid-20s.
The woman started going to the Rattlebone, in the pretty village 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 lover ‘treated me not unlike a young stallion’ behind a busy pub – thought to be the 17th Century Rattlebone Inn in Wiltshire
About ten years older than Harry, she is now an equine vet at a successful stud and looks after – perhaps fittingly – several stallions.
Mr Ortet, 48, described the woman as ‘very confident’ and the ‘leader’ of a group of friends who Harry socialised with in his late teens in the pubs near his father’s Highgrove estate in Gloucestershire.
‘She was nearly always there when Harry and William were there,’ he said. ‘Quite often she was sitting in between the two of them, or next to Harry. She would tell him off by saying “Oh shut up, Harry” when he was saying something that was nonsense. They had a good giggle, quite often, which made me think that she was the person. She was quite flirtatious as well.
‘She was lovely and she was always very close to them. Whenever she was at the pub she was shadowing them. In my personal opinion, she would be the perfect candidate. She is not super famous but she is not a commoner either.
‘Everybody was kind of seeking her approval – she was the kind of person you want to make laugh. All the guys fancied her.’
The MoS yesterday approached the woman’s home but a man who answered the door, believed to be her husband, said she would not comment.
Leaked copies of Spare in Spain raised eyebrows last week with Harry’s apparently crass language. ‘I mounted her quickly, after which she spanked my ass and sent me away,’ a translated copy of the book said.
But the MoS is the first to see an English version of the book in which it is clear the prince was using a light-hearted metaphor. Comparing the encounter to being treated ‘not unlike a young stallion’, he added: ‘Quick ride, after which she’d smacked my rump and sent me off to graze.’
The backdoor of the pub is just two footsteps away from the ‘grassy field’ where Harry had his first sexual encounter with an older woman.
The backdoor of the pub is just two footsteps away from the ‘grassy field’ where Harry had his first sexual encounter with an older woman
The small paddock – now known as Baker Thompson’s Field – has been taken over by the Village Hall and is now used for weddings and other public events.
But residents of the village of Sherston recall it being used as a regular haunt for couples having a quickie behind the pub.
The MoS first revealed in 2002 how William and Harry enjoyed raucous ‘lock-ins’ at the 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 drunken night, Mr Ortet, originally from Biarritz in France but now living in Shropshire, lined up an extraordinary 36 pints of snakebite lager and cider for the princes and their friends to drink after hours.
‘We were doing this game where we had to drink three or four pints in under a minute… When you are in your 20s, you do silly things like that,’ Mr Ortet said.
Current landlord of Jason Read, 54, who took over the pub 17 years ago, said: ‘I know Prince Harry drank here but this is the first I’ve heard of him losing his virginity in the field at the back
The partying, however, turned sour one night in the spring of 2001 when a drunken Harry repeatedly hurled racial slights at Mr Ortet, who barred Harry from the pub and has not seen him since.
He said he believed a field behind the Rattlebone, which is surrounded by a stone wall, would have been the ‘perfect spot’ for Harry’s brief liaison. But others are not so sure.
After Harry was barred, 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 revellers could have spotted any fornicating outside.
In his memoir Spare, Harry revealed that he lost his virginity to a horse-obsessed older woman in the field behind the pub
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 knew Harry through polo are dismayed at his recent behaviour.
‘He has lost his brain – it has slipped about three feet,’ said Beryl Clampton, 82, who lives in Sherston. ‘He will come to his senses one day.’
Meanwhile, one woman pensioner, who has lived in the village for 47 years, told MailOnline: ‘No one living here at the time is surprised that Harry got up to mischief in the field.
‘He and William used the pub as their local – Harry was a young man doing what young men do.’
The woman, 72, who didn’t want to be named claimed to know the identity of the older woman who treated the teenage prince ‘not unlike a young stallion’ according to his memoir Spare.
She said: ‘There were rumours in the village at the time, she wasn’t from the village itself but worked at stables not far away. As far as I know she doesn’t live here any more.
‘The pub was very different in those days and there were also rumours that he smoked drugs while he was here.’
The woman said the Cotswolds village was not particularly proud of its association to the errant prince and they won’t be putting up a blue plaque to mark Harry’s first sexual encounter.
The backdoor of the Rattlebone Inn is opposite the ivy-clad entrance to the field which these days is blocked by a black wrought-iron gate.
But when Harry and Prince William used the pub while staying with their father at Highgrove House seven miles away there was no gate.
Villagers said Harry wouldn’t be the only drinker to slip out of the pub’s back door with one of the local girls.
Current landlord Jason Read, 54, who took over the pub 17 years ago, said: ‘I know Prince Harry drank here but this is the first I’ve heard of him losing his virginity in the field at the back.
‘There is popular mythology about the brothers coming here but it’s before my time. It might be good for business though.’
The field runs alongside Sherston village hall where a yoga class was in full swing today. The grassy area now belongs to the village and is named after local charities that funded its purchase 12 years ago.
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