Princess Diana ‘smacked’ Prince Harry after he mocked the accent of a Punjabi bus driver, a new book sensationally claims.
Royal author Robert Jobson is set to release his new book Our King: Charles III: The Man and the Monarch Revealed next month.
Prince Harry and his brother William were on a special outing with their mother, which had been arranged for them by former police protection officer Inspector Ken Wharfe.
Wharfe teamed up with Jobson to write a book on Diana published in 2002.
In an extract of his new book, published in the DailyMail, he writes: ‘On the bus, Diana had to tell Harry to stop mimicking the Sikh bus conductor’s pronounced Punjabi accent every time a passenger pressed the bell to get off.
‘The conductor, a jovial chap wearing a bright yellow turban, was relaxed about Harry’s casual racism, but Diana was so mortified that she eventually told Ken Wharfe to abandon the trip.
‘Diana, Ken, William and Harry all got off at Green Park and Diana immediately smacked Harry and told him: ‘Don’t you ever do that again.’
However, the young Prince’s punishment didn’t stop there.
The book claims that Diana made Harry write to Inspector Wharfe to ‘apologise for his behaviour’ and for ‘spoiling the day’ she had arranged.
‘As he was a child at the time, he can probably be forgiven – but the incident demonstrates that on one issue at least, Diana was in complete agreement with Charles.
‘She would not tolerate any form of racism from their two sons,’ Jobson continued in his book.
