The making of a 'PARTY PRINCE'

Were Harry’s wild years youthful rebellion, or a cry for help?

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A few weeks after his mother's death, Harry became a teenager. With that came the usual trials and tribulations associated with growing up - and, of course, everything he did was in full view of the public and press.

During his time at Eton, he began being seen as the more rebellious brother, making headlines in 2001, aged 16, for underaged drinking and marijuana use. Prince Harry later claimed this was a direct consequence of bottling up the grief he felt at the loss of his mother. In his 2021 Apple TV+ series The Me You Can't See,. he said, 'I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling.'

Charles tried to 'shock' his youngest son with a trip to a rehab clinic in London. In 2002, Bill Puddicombe, chief executive of the Featherstone Lodge Centre, confirmed that Harry 'came for a couple of hours on a day in late summer and talked to several people in recovery - heroin and cocaine addicts mostly. As we understood, it was an opportunity for the Prince of Wales to teach Prince Harry about our work and the consequences of taking drugs.'

Yet the headlines followed him, and in 2005 he was splashed across