Remember him. Prince Harry recalls his relationship with Caroline Flack in his forthcoming memoir, spare.
The Duke of Sussex, 38, was briefly taken with the late TV presenter after meeting her in a restaurant on a night out with friends in 2009.
“Flack, she called him,” Harry wrote in the book, which will be released on Tuesday, January 10, noting that he was introduced “a month after [ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy] and I have separated.”
Although the former Love Island UK host is a well-known TV personality in England, Harry likes that “he’s not surprised that I don’t know him.” The prince described her as “funny”, “sweet” and “cool”, adding that “she doesn’t have a big ego.”
The two went out for “dinner and games” a few days after their initial meet-cute. After they started spending more time with each other, Harry and Flack were photographed together – the moment that finally ended their brief romance.
“It wasn’t long after he papped me and Flack that the photos went viral. Within hours, a crowd was camped outside Flack’s parents’ house, and all his friends’ houses, and his grandparents’ house,” Harry recalled. spare. “He was described in one of the papers as ‘rough’, because he used to work in a factory or something. Jesus, I thought, are we really an incurable country?”
Archewell’s founder notes that while he “keeps looking at Flack and killing it,” no one feels “free.”
“We continue, I think, because we really like the rest of the company, and because we don’t want to admit defeat at the hands of these arseholes,” he said. “But the relationship is impure, irreparable, and at that moment we know that there is no point in suffering and disruption. Especially for his family. Goodbye, we say. Goodbye.”
Years later, as Harry and Meghan, 41, dealt with the aftermath of the royal announcement, Harry received the “horrific news” in February 2020 that Flack had died of suicide. “He couldn’t take it anymore, apparently,” he wrote. “Relentless abuse at the hands of the press, year after year, eventually destroyed him.”
The former military pilot continued: “I feel very bad for his family. I remember how they all suffered because of the great sin of him going out with me. He was very light and funny when we met at night. The definition of carefree.”
Harry described losing his old flame as an “important reminder”, especially after Meghan expressed suicidal thoughts to him during her first pregnancy. (The couple share son Archie, 3, and daughter Lilibet, 19 months.)
“I’m not overdramatic, I don’t warn about things that won’t happen,” he said. Suit alum’s long feud with UK tabloids. “What I want to do with Meg is really a matter of life and death. And time is running out.”
Before her death at the age of 40, Flack recalled her brief romance with – and subsequent split from – Harry in her own memoir, 2014. Storm in the C Cup.
“I’m not Caroline Flack, the TV presenter, I’m Caroline Flack, the rude Prince Harry,” she wrote, referring to the nickname given to her by the British press. “If the story comes out, that’s it. We need to stop looking at each other.
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