Teen Prince Harry had head pushed inside carcass of stag he shot
Blood and guts for teenage Prince Harry when his head was pushed inside carcass of stag he shot
- Prince Harry details how he had his head shoved inside carcass of stag he shot
- He had his first ‘blooding’ done to him aged 15 while on at hunt at Balmoral
- He reveals in his memoir Spare that his nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke pushed him
Prince Harry’s head was pushed inside the still-warm carcass of the first stag he shot at Balmoral.
In his memoir, Spare, he recalls how a ghillie called Sandy slit its belly and told Harry to kneel.
He thought they were going to pray, but his head was pushed into the body as a ‘blooding’.
Prince Harry revealed his head was pushed inside the carcass of the first stag he shot by his nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke (pictured together in 1997)
Prince Harry says in his memoir that thought they were going to pray, but his head was pushed into the body as a ‘blooding’
He adds: ‘I tried to pull away, but Sandy pushed me deeper. I was shocked…by the infernal smell. My breakfast jumped up from my stomach….After a minute I couldn’t smell anything, because I couldn’t breathe. My nose and mouth were full of blood, guts, and a deep, upsetting warmth.’
He wasn’t even allowed to wipe his face clean afterwards but later felt he had been ‘good to Nature’ by helping to manage the deer population.
He reveals that his first ‘blooding’ was done by his nanny, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, who dipped her fingers in rabbit blood, smeared it ‘tenderly’ down his face and said: ‘Well done darling!’
Harry was just 15 when he killed the creature, he wrote in the memoir.
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