- Prince Harry was accused of cheating on his exams to graduate from Eton in 2003.
- The Duke of Sussex describes the horrifying blame in his memoir “Spare”.
- Harry was later cleared by the exam board, but the damage was done.
Prince Harry is thinking back to the day he was charged with exam fraud.
The Duke of Sussex discusses how he was suspected of cheating on his exams to graduate from Eton in 2003 after receiving specialized tutoring.
The Duke of Sussex describes the horrifying blame in his memoir “Spare,” saying: “I was accused of cheating. An art teacher came forward with evidence of cheating, which turned out not to be evidence of cheating. It turned out to be nothing at all, and I was later cleared by the exam board. But the damage was done”
Harry adds: “The accusation stuck. Brokenhearted, I wanted to release a statement, hold a press conference, tell the world: I did the work! I didn’t cheat! The Palace wouldn’t let me. In this, as in most things, the Palace stuck fast to the family motto: Never complain, never explain. Especially if the complainer was an eighteen-year-old boy. Thus I was forced to sit by and say nothing while the papers called me a cheat and a dummy every day.”
This occurs when sales of the Duke of Sussex’s autobiography set new highs. Now available in stores is “Spare.”
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