Prince Harry Recounts Overhearing Discussions about his Sexuality

Any gay man could be forgiven for wondering whether Prince Harry, a handsome ginger, might play for our team. But it's a question that's surprisingly widespread, Harry revealed in his new memoir.

Calling Harry's newly released tell-all book, "Spare," "the weirdest book ever written by a royal," the BBC detailed how Harry delves into "frank and intimate" territory about his personal life, including whether or not he's circumcised, the toll a case of frostbite at the North Pole took on his royal junk, and the circumstances under which he lost his virginity, as well as anecdotes about smoking weed and suffering panic attacks.

But it was during Harry's fraught grocery store excursions, undertaken with attempts to avoid being recognized, that the prince would overhear "shoppers debating whether he's gay," the article says.

Those discussions seemed to have happened with some frequency, Attitude detailed, usually "while waiting in line in the supermarket."

"More than once I watched customers read about me, overheard them debating me," the magazine quotes Harry's book (which was ghost-written).

"In 2015 I overheard them frequently discussing whether or not I'd ever marry," the book adds. "Whether or not I was happy. Whether or not I might be gay."

"I was always tempted to tap them on the shoulder," the book adds, before imagining confronting unwary gossips with a cheeky, if pointed, greeting of, "'Ello."

On one occasion, Attitude relayed, Harry did forsake his attempt at shopping incognito in order to stand up for himself to "an elderly couple" who were "heatedly discussing his life choices with a cashier."

As the book tells it, Harry "stepped forward, showed my face, cleared my throat: 'Excuse me. Not sure what's going on here, but I don't think you should be speaking to her like that.'"

Though there's no reason to think that the royal, who has exited his life in the UK and settled in the U.S. with his American wife, Meghan Markle, and their two children, is secretly gay. Harry has legions of gay fans. That's not entirely due to his good looks; he is, after all, the son of Princess Diana, an icon and, during her too-brief life, an ally.

What's more, Harry has shown that he's an ally, too. Attitude recalled that during his military service, the prince, who piloted a helicopter, took some anti-gay bullies in uniform to task for harassing his gunner, who was openly gay.

"He told them off, and they left me alone," Attitude recalled James Wharton telling Forces News in 2020.