AceShowbiz - Prince Harry and Sasha Walpole drank alcohol before romping behind a pub. Revealing herself as the "older woman" who took the Duke of Sussex's virginity behind the Vine Tree Inn pub in Wiltshire 2001, the 40-year-old digger driver says that the five-minute sexual encounter - which the royal disclosed in his memoir "Spare" - was fuelled by alcohol and heartache as she had recently spilt from her first boyfriend, who had turned up at the venue with his new lover.

"Harry was a friend and knew I was gutted and upset. So when the girlfriend rocked up, he knew how I was feeling. He didn't give me a hug - instead he brought me shots. He brought me some shots to kind of say, 'Come on, let's lift the mood,' " Sasha told The Sun on Sunday newspaper.

"I didn't see him go to the bar but he came up to me and said, 'Happy birthday - let's do some drinks' not long after this girl got there. There were about five each - a tequila, a Baileys, sambuca, a mixture - on a black bar tray. And we downed them between us. Shot by shot."

Walpole and the prince knew each other after she had worked as a stable girl at Highgrove, the country retreat of King Charles, but had no contact after their liaison at the party to celebrate her 19th birthday. She recalled, "Harry and I never texted or rang each other after that. I didn't mind. I wasn't embarrassed. Was I disappointed he didn't ring? No. It was circumstances, we weren't going out, we didn't need to ring each other."