Prince Harry’s very controversial nickname at Eton revealed – sparked by spare time activity

Prince Harry has made no secret of his past drug use – and it’s claimed earned him an unfortunate nickname during his time at Eton College.

Harry attended the prestigious all-boys boarding school in Berkshire from 1998 until 2003, leaving with two A-Levels, achieving a grade B in art and D in geography. And during his time at Eton, he was given a telling moniker. In his 2020 book Brothers of Brothers, acclaimed royal historian Robert Lacey revealed that the Prince was “known as ‘Hash Harry’ at Eton, on account of the smoky aroma that often emanated from his room”.

Harry himself opened up about his drug use in his tell-all memoir, Spare, and spoke about his introduction to marijuana at Eton. “I don’t remember how we got the stuff. One of my mates, I expect,” he said. “Or maybe several. Whenever we found ourselves in possession, we’d commandeer a tiny upstairs bathroom, wherein we’d implement a surprisingly thoughtful, orderly assembly line. Smoker straddled the loo beside the window, second boy leaned against the basin, third and fourth boys sat in the empty bath, legs dangling over, waiting their turns.

“You’d take a hit or two, blow the smoke out of the window, then move on to the next station, in rotation, until the spliff was gone. Then we’d all head to one of our rooms and giggle ourselves sick over an episode or two of a new show. Family Guy. I felt an inexplicable bond with Stewie, prophet without honour.” He also revealed he later turned to cocaine to deal with mental and emotional anguish still impacting him from the death of his mother.

“Of course…I had been doing cocaine around this time. At someone’s country house, during a shooting weekend, I’d been offered a line, and I’d done a few more since. It wasn’t much fun, and it didn’t make me particularly happy, as it seemed to make everyone around me, but it did make me feel different, and that was the main goal. Feel. Different. I was a deeply unhappy 17-year-old boy willing to try almost anything that would alter the status quo. That was what I told myself anyway.”