{"id":2028066,"date":"2025-09-17T04:28:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2028066"},"modified":"2025-09-17T04:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:28:18","slug":"how-prince-harrys-party-boy-image-started-according-to-royal-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-prince-harrys-party-boy-image-started-according-to-royal-author\/","title":{"rendered":"How Prince Harry\u2019s Party Boy Image Started, According to Royal Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"2b6b2952-b7f3-49f3-9d7d-cc6180cb247b\">Before he was known for devoting his time to his growing family and philanthropic work, <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/a36642482\/prince-harry-left-to-suffer-by-prince-charles-after-princess-diana-death\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/a36642482\/prince-harry-left-to-suffer-by-prince-charles-after-princess-diana-death\/\">Prince Harry had a very different reputation<\/a>, as something of a notorious party boy.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/a26052318\/prince-harry-security-alert-gps-error\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/a26052318\/prince-harry-security-alert-gps-error\/\">Prince Harry&#8217;s party boy persona<\/a> began when he was still attending Eton, where, as the <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/royals\/article-14935745\/Royal-author-young-Harry-party-boy-image.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/royals\/article-14935745\/Royal-author-young-Harry-party-boy-image.html\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/a> reports, he was spotted partying at a rooftop bar in London just a few months before he was due to sit for his A Levels.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-seasonal\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-base\"\/>\n<p id=\"2b6b2952-b7f3-49f3-9d7d-cc6180cb247b-2\">In the early days of <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/a32723533\/prince-harry-secret-facebook-account-fake-name\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/a32723533\/prince-harry-secret-facebook-account-fake-name\/\">Harry&#8217;s Party Boy Era<\/a>, the young royal had his &#8220;wrists slapped&#8221; as those around him tried to push him away from partying and toward studying harder for his exams, according to royal expert and author <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/katie_nicholl\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/katie_nicholl\/?hl=en\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">Katie Nicholl<\/a>, who met Harry at the Kensington Roof Gardens when he was just 18 years old.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-b border-solid border-[#333]\">\n<span class=\"&#10;after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t-[#333] after:border-t after:border-solid&#10;before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t-[#333] before:border-t before:border-solid&#10;font-article-heading pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333] flex\"><br \/>\nYou may like<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;I witnessed Harry&#8217;s partying first hand that spring. I was a young show business reporter at the time for the <em>Mail on Sunday<\/em> and happened to be covering an event at the Kensington Roof Gardens,&#8221; Nicholl wrote of the encounter in her royal biography <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=141596&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2FMaking-Royal-Romance-Harry-expanded%2Fdp%2F1602861536%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dmarieclaireus-us-2290305066191238472-20\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Making-Royal-Romance-Harry-expanded\/dp\/1602861536\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"hawklinks\" data-placeholder-url=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=141596&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2FMaking-Royal-Romance-Harry-expanded%2Fdp%2F1602861536%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dhawk-custom-tracking-20\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-merchant-name=\"Amazon US\" data-merchant-id=\"1471\" data-merchant-network=\"Amazonus\" data-merchant-url=\"amazon.com\"><em>The Making of a Royal Romance<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>(per the <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/royals\/article-14935745\/Royal-author-young-Harry-party-boy-image.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/royals\/article-14935745\/Royal-author-young-Harry-party-boy-image.html\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>). &#8220;I had gone outside onto the terrace for a breath of fresh air when Harry suddenly emerged from the VIP room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/royals\/article-14935745\/Royal-author-young-Harry-party-boy-image.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/royals\/article-14935745\/Royal-author-young-Harry-party-boy-image.html\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"><em>Daily Mail<\/em>&#8216;<\/a>s recounting of the story, Harry then signaled for Nicholl to join him as he &#8220;tried to light a cigarette in the wind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His protection officers were seated at a coffee table at the far end of the room while Harry sat on the floor surrounded by eight pretty girls all clinging to his every word,&#8221; Nicholl explains in the book. &#8220;One of his friends fetched me a glass of champagne while Harry held court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nicholl went on to say that Harry&#8217;s laidback attitude toward toward his studies\u2014which she says he &#8220;only mentioned in passing&#8221;\u2014 was increasingly obvious (and scrutinized in the press) in the weeks leading up to his exams.<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-kpBhybQFUSsAKpKwmDJmK5\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-kpBhybQFUSsAKpKwmDJmK5 slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Get exclusive access to fashion and beauty trends, hot-off-the-press celebrity news, and more.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It seemed that no matter how many times he had his wrists slapped, Harry would not learn,&#8221; Nicholl wrote of the time when Harry was cultivating his &#8220;party boy&#8221; rep.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/a37158155\/prince-harry-friends-asking-him-not-to-write-about-them-in-memoir\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/a37158155\/prince-harry-friends-asking-him-not-to-write-about-them-in-memoir\/\">Harry also touched on his partying during his school days<\/a> in his <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=141596&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2FSpare-Prince-Harry-Duke-Sussex%2Fdp%2F0593593804%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dmarieclaireus-us-1417098106928163818-20\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spare-Prince-Harry-Duke-Sussex\/dp\/0593593804\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"hawklinks\" data-placeholder-url=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=141596&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2FSpare-Prince-Harry-Duke-Sussex%2Fdp%2F0593593804%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dhawk-custom-tracking-20\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-merchant-name=\"Amazon US\" data-merchant-id=\"1471\" data-merchant-network=\"Amazonus\" data-merchant-url=\"amazon.com\">memoir<em> Spare<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I took every cig offered me, and in the same automatic, unthinking way, I soon graduated to weed,&#8221; he candidly explained.<\/p>\n<p>The royal even went so far as to describe the way he and his friends pulled off their rule-breaking smoke breaks, writing: &#8220;Smoker straddled the loo beside the window, second boy leaned against the basin, third and fourth boys sat in the empty bath, legs dangling over, waiting their turns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.marieclaire.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before he was known for devoting his time to his growing family and philanthropic work, Prince Harry had a very different reputation, as something of a notorious party boy. 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