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In early 2012, while drunk, Prince Harry accidentally made an emergency call, which put the guards on duty on alert.
London – For tourists, the changing of the guard between Buckingham Palace and St. James's Palace is a must.
But in one of the guardhouses, an incident apparently occurred that had absolutely nothing to do with the traditional ceremony.
Prince Harry (38) is said to have triggered a panic alarm in one of the houses when he was 27 years old.
Ex-guard on Prince Harry: 'He pushed us away and got very abusive'
During his time as Prince of Wales, today's King Charles III.
(74) with his family from 2002 at Clarence House, part of the royal St. James's Palace.
As of January 2012, Prince Harry was in the army and lives in an apartment on the site.
In an interview with
The Sun
, a former soldier from the Guards Division now reports that an emergency call was not made at all.
"It was around midnight.
An alarm went off in the guard room, but we had never heard it before,” the ex-soldier recalls.
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In early 2012, Prince Harry is said to have triggered the drunk panic alarm in one of the famous sentry boxes in front of St. James's Palace (right).
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Three soldiers and two armed police officers then made their way to one of the guard houses where the alarm was triggered.
"Instead of an intruder or a terrorist, we found Prince Harry,"
the security guard said.
He was lying on the floor and drooling.
When we tried to get him up he started screaming, 'Leave me alone, I don't need any help.'
He pushed us away and became very abusive.
A former soldier told The Sun
Nevertheless, the guards would have carried the “babbled” Prince Harry to his apartment with their combined strength.
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Prince Harry's apartment was in a bad state, the ex-soldier reveals, according to
The
Sun.
"The double bed was unmade, there were clothes and socks, beer cans, dirty coffee cups and cigarette packs lying around on the floor." The guards would have put Prince Harry in his bed and let his intoxication sleep off.
The panic alarm was not noted at the time because a commanding officer called the station the next day and insisted that the incident remain secret.
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But why is the former security guard unpacking eleven years after the incident about Prince Harry's antics?
"Harry stoked the flames, all for the benefit of his book, that makes me angry," the ex-soldier explains his motives.
Not only did he talk about the killing of 25 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in his biography “Reserve” (“Spare”) – “you never talk about that as a soldier” – but he also put down the British royal family.
"I'm so sorry for King Charles and especially for Prince William, he needs such broad shoulders to deal with all this." That's why Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (41) at the coronation of King Charles III.
there is also a ban on balconies.
Sources used:
thesun.co.uk
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