Why Does Harry Drink so Much? ; All Young Men Like to Party- but Prince Harry's Friends Are Now

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WHAT with being interviewed by police investigating the illegal shooting of protected birds at his grandmother's country estate, and trying his hand at underwater engineering with the British navy, it's been an unusual week for Prince Harry.

And yet the image that lingers - naggingly - is neither of these. It's of a binge-drinking prince, glugging from a vodka bottle tipped into his mouth. It's of a young man of 23, third in line to the British throne, casually running up a Pounds 2,350 bar bill in a nightclub 'without any concept of what these large sums of money mean to ordinary people', according to one of his mother's friends. It's the Queen's grandson getting into a drunken row with another clubber who says something Harry doesn't like about his girlfriend, Chelsy Davy.

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Why Does Harry Drink so Much? ; All Young Men Like to Party- but Prince Harry's Friends Are Now

You will recall the vodka bottle picture, which went round the world. It was among those taken at the party following the Rugby World Cup final in Paris. Booze-ups like this after a big game are a rugby tradition. Apart from massive hangovers, no harm usually comes of them.

But that picture of the Prince was only part of the story. His drinking marathon lasted 23 hours. When William finally emerged from the nightclub...

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