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The Daily Beast has frequently heard from Prince Harry’s old friends of their amazement at his transformation from posh, politically incorrect party boy into woke LA social justice warrior. Indeed, The Daily Beast understands that vanishingly few of Harry’s old pals are still in regular contact with him such is the order of the metamorphosis.
Now, author Tom Bower, in the latest extract from his new book on Harry and Meghan, Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors, details one of the first incidences in which Harry’s old and new worlds collided, and the astonished reaction of his old friends to his unlikely new girlfriend.