Prince Harry has claimed that he refused an invite during a trip to Scotland that could have caused a 'huge scandal', according his brand new memoir 'Spare'.
The Duke of Sussex was visiting pal Henry van Straubenzee, nicknamed Henners, in Edinburgh where the pair spoke at length about the future and what it could hold, writes Edinburgh Live.
In the book, Harry penned "The future. We wondered aloud about what it held. I worried about it, but not Henners. He didn't take the future seriously, didn't take anything seriously. Life as it comes, Haz. That was Henners, always and forever. I envied his tranquility."
Harry then said that his pal was heading to a casino in Edinburgh, and asked him to go along too.
Harry wrote: "For now, however, he was heading to one of Edinburgh's casinos. He asked if I wanted to come along.
"Ah, can't, I said. I couldn't possibly be seen in a casino. It would cause a huge scandal. Too bad, he said. Cheers, we both said, promising to talk again soon."
Later in the book, Harry revealed that Henry sadly did died in a car crash just before Christmas 2002 - when Harry was just 18 years old.
Harry wrote: "I only dimly recall holding the phone, hearing the words. Henners and another boy, leaving a party near Ludgrove, drove into a tree... They didn't bother with seatbelts... Just like Mummy.
"And yet, unlike Mummy, there was no way to spin this as a disappearance. This was death, no two ways about it. Also, unlike Mummy, Henners wasn't going that fast. Because he wasn't being chased. Twenty miles an hour, tops, everyone said.
"And yet the car went straight into an old tree. Old ones, someone explained, are much harder than young ones."
Prince Harry's book was released on Tuesday.
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