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Jennifer Newton

Inside Prince Harry's teen parties - rum, vodka, snogging and personal nightclub

In his younger years, Prince Harry appeared to earn himself a reputation as a party prince.

He was often pictured outside some of London's hottest nightclubs and seemed to like nothing more than a night on the town.

And it appears even in his teenage years, he enjoyed partying with nights revolving around his dad King Charles' Highgrove home.

Harry's teenage years have been thrust back into the spotlight after a digger driver has come forward claiming to be the "older woman" who took Harry's virginity.

Sasha Walpole, a former stable worker at Highgrove, said she and Harry had sex in a field after celebrating her 19th birthday at a pub in Wiltshire in 2001.

Prince Harry pictured in July 2001 (Getty Images)
Harry has opened up about partying in his teenage years (Getty Images)

It's after Harry opened up on how he lost his virginity in his memoir, Spare, revealing he had a brief encounter in a field behind a pub aged 17.

She claimed the pair had sex in a field after sneaking out of a nearby pub together to smoke cigarettes unseen.

She also told how the pair started the night by downing countless shots of tequila, Baileys and sambuca at the Vine Tree Inn in Norton, Wiltshire.

Prince Harry with pals near Highgrove as a teenager (UK Press via Getty Images)

Harry has previously spoken out about his typical weekends at Highgrove at that time, saying he and Prince William would often go to a pub with mates and drink pints of Snakebite, made from cider and lager.

But their nights invariably ended up back at Club H - their very own private nightclub at Highgrove in what was once a bomb shelter.

In Spare, Harry describes how he and William kitted out the space with pieces from royal residences, including Persian rugs, red Moroccan sofas and an electric dartboard.

King Charles' Highgrove estate in Gloucestershire (UK Press via Getty Images)

And also what went down inside, he explains: "There was plenty of innocent snogging, which went hand in hand with the not-so-innocent drinking. Rum and Coke, or vodka, usually in tumblers, with liberal splashes of Red Bull."

He continues: "When I wanted peace, Club H provided. When I wanted mischief, Club H was the safest place to act out. When I wanted solitude, what better than a bomb shelter in the middle of the British countryside?"

But despite it being a party venue, Harry claims it was also a place where William wanted to open up to him about the death of their late mother Princess Diana - as it was a place they felt secure.

Harry last year with wife Meghan Markle (Getty Images)

However he explains there was one problem - he wasn't willing to listen to his brother on the subject.

He writes: "Whenever he went there … I changed the subject. He’d get frustrated. And I wouldn’t acknowledge his frustration. More likely, I couldn’t even recognize it. Being so obtuse, so emotionally unavailable, wasn’t a choice I made. I simply wasn’t capable."

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