Elizabeth Hurley shuts down theory she took Prince Harry’s virginity

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Elizabeth Hurley is dismissing rumours that she was the older woman Prince Harry claimed took his virginity in last year’s revealing memoir, Spare.

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Harry wrote about his first sexual experience when he was a teenager calling the encounter an “inglorious episode” in his book saying that the brief tryst “only lasted five minutes.”

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“She liked horses, quite a lot, and treated me not unlike a young stallion,” Harry recalled of his unnamed partner. “Quick ride, after which she’d smacked my rump and sent me off to graze. Among the many things about it that were wrong: It happened in a grassy field behind a busy pub.”

Royal watchers speculated that the woman was Hurley but the British actress, 58, dismissed the rumours in an interview with Andy Cohen last week during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live.

“That was ludicrous!” Hurley said (per PEOPLE). “He said, ‘She was English. She was older than me. It was in Gloucestershire.’ And they were like, ‘Ah, it’s Elizabeth.’”

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Although she has met Harry’s dad, King Charles, and his estranged brother Prince William, Hurley said that she’s never crossed paths with Harry, adding to Cohen, “It was absurd. It was ridiculous. It was like saying, ‘He’s great-looking. He’s American.’ Oh, it’s Andy Cohen.”

Shortly after Harry’s book was released, Sasha Walpole, a 40-year-old mother-of-two, claimed in an interview with The U.K. Sun that she was the woman who took Harry’s virginity.

“I don’t understand why he went into such detail. He could have said that he lost his virginity and left it at that,” Walpole told the outlet.

Walpole, who worked for then-Prince Charles as a royal groomer, added in an interview with the Daily Mail that sex with Harry “wasn’t premeditated.”

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“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 told the publication. “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.”

But Walpole said she didn’t mind Harry’s depiction of their romp, including his characterization of the act as “a quick ride” and him describing how she smacked his butt when it was over.

“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,” she said. “The slap happened in a horsey context, the book is a funny interpretation of that … Afterwards I did grab his bum and give him a slap. I gave him a little squeeze as well. He had a peachy bum.”

Hurley has previously addressed the rumour during an interview with the Saturday Times magazine.

When asked if she was the woman in Harry’s book, the mother of one replied: “Not me. Not guilty,” before going on to add, “No. Not me. Absolutely not.”

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