Prince Harry’s former lover Sasha Walpole revealed the Duke of Sussex is ‘not the boy she remembers’ and joked that he has ‘traded down’ by marrying Meghan Markle.
The digger driver – who has come forward as the woman who took Prince Harry’s virginity – appears on the latest episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored, which airs tonight at 8pm on TalkTV.
During the interview, Sarah, 40, was quizzed by the host about her feelings towards Meghan Markle.
Joking that the two women have ‘a lot in common’, Piers said: ‘He’s gone from a digger to a gold digger!’
Laughing along, Sasha then pointed out that both her and Meghan refer to Harry as ‘H’.
Sasha Walpole was quizzed about her feelings towards Meghan Markle during her Piers Morgan Uncensored interview, which airs tonight
Piers then went on to ask if Prince Harry – who now lives in Montecito, California after quitting royal life in 2020 – seemed ‘happy’ to her.
She replied: ‘He’s not the boy I remember, that’s for sure.
‘But again I’m not in his shoes, I have no idea what’s going on in his head, I haven’t seen him for 21 years.’
Piers added: ‘Do you think he’s traded up from you or down?’
Sasha replied with a laugh: ‘Definitely down!’
Elsewhere in the interview with Piers Morgan, Sasha said she decided to come forward and reveal her identity because the speculation over Prince Harry’s mystery lover was ‘never going to stop’.
In his biography, Harry wrote how a horse-loving ‘older woman’ treated him ‘not unlike a young stallion’ and ‘smacked my rump and sent me off to graze’ after a ‘quick ride’.
Sasha said: ‘People are asking, family and friends. We know who it is, and then suddenly it’s just a reality of ‘This isn’t going to go away’.
Sasha Walpole and Harry and friends lark about at the Beaufort Polo Club near Tetbury in Gloucestershire back in 2001
Spare became the fastest-selling non-fiction book in the UK since records began in 1998, and sold 3.2 million copies worldwide in the first week of publication
Sasha Walpole (pictured with her horse) revealed to the Mail on Sunday how Harry made the first move
Sasha joked that Harry had ‘traded down’ by marrying the former Suits actress. The couple pictured at the Salute To Freedom Gala in November 2021
‘Forever this is going to flare up. Until they know who it is, they’re going to be questioning people.
‘And yes I could not have said anything but then it’s never going to stop.’
She added: ‘He could have given me the heads up that you know, ‘I’m going to put it in the book’.’
In an exclusive interview with the Mail on Sunday, Sasha revealed that she never spoke to Prince Harry again after they slept together in a field behind the The Vine Tree pub pub in Wiltshire.
Saha explained told how she and the young prince had become friends while she was a groom at the future King Charles’s Gloucestershire estate, Highgrove. Mrs Walpole had invited the then 16-year-old to her 19th birthday party at The Vine Tree pub in the Wiltshire village of Norton in July 2001.
With Sasha feeling down in the dumps over an ex, Harry cheered her up by buying them ten shots. But when they sneaked out of the pub for a crafty Marlboro Light cigarette, they ended up clambering over a fence to make love in a field.
‘He started to kiss me,’ she told The Mail on Sunday. ‘It was passionate, intense. We both knew. It went from a kiss on to the floor pretty quickly.
‘It was instant, fiery, wham bam, between two friends. It was sparky because we shouldn’t have been doing it. He wasn’t ‘Prince Harry’ to me, this was Harry, my friend, and the situation had got a little bit out of control. It felt naughty, I suppose, in the sense that it shouldn’t be happening.
The Vine Tree Pub, Norton, Wiltshire where Prince Harry had sex with Sasha Walpole in a field, which the Duke sensationally revealed in his bombshell memoir Spare
Aerial pictures of the Vine tree pub showing the surrounding fields where Sasha says the pair had sex
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry pictured at the Ripple of Hope Awards in December 2022
‘We didn’t set out to do it – it wasn’t premeditated and I didn’t know he was a virgin. There were no virgin vibes – he seemed to know what he was doing. It was quick, wild, exciting. We were both drunk. It wouldn’t have happened if we weren’t.’
She then returned to the pub while Harry hid in a phone box where his security detail found him. She rang her sister, Jodie Mayhead, the next day and the two women giggled about it.
In Spare, Harry writes that it was ‘a quick ride, after which she’d smacked my rump and sent me off to graze’. Today his description of it being ‘inglorious’ makes Sasha laugh. ‘I don’t mind him saying that because it isn’t really very glorious, is it? We were drunk and having sex in a field.’
And she clearly remembers giving Harry a one-handed smack on the bottom as their five-minute sex session came to a hurried close.
‘It’s his sense of humour. [We were part of] a massive horse scene and the slap happened in a horsey context, the book is a funny interpretation of that.
‘His description is accurate – the real shock when I saw what he’d written was how true it was. That’s what took me back the most. I’m not offended.
Digger driver Sasha Walpole (pictured), 40, reveals she is the mystery horse-lover who had ‘passionate’ five-minute sex session with the duke in pub field
When they were young: Prince Harry and Sasha Walpole inside The Vine Tree Pub where they shared a kiss before getting more intimate in a nearby field
‘Afterwards I did grab his bum and give him a slap. I gave him a little squeeze as well. He had a peachy bum. I don’t know about the stallion thing; I think that was more to do with the fact that I worked with horses.
‘To tell the truth, he didn’t make sure I was happy. He was young. It’s not until you are older you understand that stuff. It really was just a moment of passion.’
The sound of their friends spilling out into the pub car park brought the pair swiftly back to reality and they panicked at the idea of being spotted together. They also realised that when Harry had failed to appear at closing time, his security detail would have gone in search of him. They separated to return to The Vine Tree in the hope of keeping their encounter secret.
Sasha says: ‘Afterwards there was the realisation, ‘S***! What are we doing? Where do we go from here?’ I don’t remember us kissing, it was just ‘Okaaaaayy!’
‘We got up, put our clothes back on and agreed we had to go in separate directions back to the pub which, in hindsight, probably made it more obvious. If we’d only gone for a cheeky cigarette, we would have returned together. We had only been gone about 15 minutes in total – but it was long enough for his security to start worrying.
A younger Sasha Walpole dressed up for a Polo ball
The Miss Piggy Toy Harry bought for Sasha for her birthday. The Duke bought it at Thorpe park and gave it to her at her party with a card
The birthday card Prince Harry wrote to his close friend Sasha Walpole back in 2001. It reads: ‘To Sasha, have a very happy birthday, and don’t get too pi***d! Luckily I’ll be there to keep an eye on you, loads of love, Baz … PS. Thanks for everything’
‘I went back over the fence into the beer garden. My friends saw me and started laughing. I didn’t have my belt on and it’s kind of obvious when you come back a bit dishevelled from a field.’
Spare became the fastest-selling non-fiction book in the UK since records began in 1998, and sold 3.2 million copies worldwide in the first week of publication.
Harry’s account sparked a flurry of speculation about who the mystery ‘older woman’ could be, with even actress Liz Hurley, now 57, feeling compelled to deny she’d been the one who took his virginity. But Sasha, of course, instantly knew it was her – as did her friends who sent her messages the day the book was published.
‘I realised, thinking about it the next day, that he had been a virgin,’ she says wryly. ‘I hadn’t known him to have slept with anyone and, obviously, I’d been hanging around with him for a few years. At the time, I just didn’t think it was a ‘thing’.’
Watch Piers Morgan Uncensored on TalkTV weekdays at 8pm on TalkTV. Available on Sky 522, Sky Glass 508, Virgin Media 606, Freeview 237 and Freesat 217 as well as on DAB, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Samsung TV Plus, YouTube, the Talk.TV website and TalkTV iOS and Android apps.
***
Read more at DailyMail.co.uk