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Prince Harry traded off his former image as a booze-loving, party boy Tuesday at an Invictus Games 2023 launch event in Düsseldorf, praising the city’s reputation as a brewery and saying he was looking forward to having a beer.
In remarks that could have been calculated to dispel a growing perception that the former wild man of the British royal family has become an abstemious puritan since moving to California, the prince said: “Before I go any further, there is something that I must ask, and something that I must know. I hear that the beer here is better than in Cologne. Is this true? Is this true? We’ll have to find out. On this hot day I couldn’t think of a better reason. I’m glad that’s settled.”
The remarks will serve to end speculation that Harry, who was renowned for a wild and boozy lifestyle in his late teens and twenties, gave up drinking after marrying Meghan.