Sunday 08 / December / 2024
New York: The office of Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, said on Wednesday that the couple and Meghan's mother were followed for more than two hours by half a dozen vehicles with blacked-out windows after leaving a charity event in New York.
The spokesperson described the chase as "near catastrophic" and said that it "resulted in multiple near collisions involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians and two NYPD [New York Police Department] officers."
"While being a public figure comes with a level of interest form the public, it should never come at the cost of anybody's safety," the statement said.
The scenes as described, albeit as yet not commented on by New York law enforcement, are reminiscent of the circumstances in which Harry's mother, the late Princess Diana of Wales, famously died in Paris in 1997.
She died in a car crash late at night in a tunnel in Paris while her driver was trying to evade paparazzi photographers.
Harry spoke at length about this event and its effect on his early and later life when discussing his current campaign against media attention on him and his family in his book and Netflix series and other media appearances.
