Questions over Prince Harry's recollection of Queen Mother's death

The reliability of Prince Harry’s memoir has been called into question after it emerged ‘facts’ about how he learned about the death of the Queen Mother cannot be accurate.

In his book, Spare, the wrote in painstaking detail of the call he received while at Eton, telling him his great grandmother had died on March 30, 2002.

He writes: ‘At Eton, while studying, I took the call. I wish I could remember whose voice was at the other end; a courtier’s I believe. I recall that it was just before Easter, the weather bright and warm, light slanting through my window, filled with vivid colours.’ 

But resurfaced photographs appear to place the prince in Klosters, Switzerland, the weekend Mother died.

Harry posed alongside his brother William and father Charles in a media call on March 29, having recently shrugged off a bout of glandular fever in time to hit the slopes.

It was his first public appearance after admitting to smoking cannabis and drinking underage, BBC reported at the time.

Prince Harry reportedly told the gathered crowd he was on doctors orders to ‘take it easy’ on the slopes, and appeared jovial by all accounts. 

The trio leaned against a rock, marmaris araç kiralama laughed with one another and even put their arms around each other in the pictures. 

Three friends from Eton were said to have accompanied the boys on the trip.

Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams told MailOnline: ‘It seems from the evidence, that he was undoubtedly in Klosters at when the Queen Mother died.’

‘This portrait of being at Eton, »the weather bright and warm, light slanting… vivid colours» is therefore inaccurate.’

Mr Fitzwilliams, quoting the Queen herself, noted it is possible that », but described this as ‘a serious mistake’.