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Prince Harry's car 'driven at 100mph'
By David Thomas
Last Updated: 1:23PM BST 18/05/2008

Prince Harry was driven to a London night club at speeds of more than 100mph with a police escort, it has been claimed.

The prince was spotted last Saturday evening in the passenger seat of a car travelling at high speed on a motorway towards the capital, a Sunday newspaper alleges.

The car - allegedly containing the man identified as the prince, and another man - was accompanied by a police protection Range Rover.

Hours later the Prince was seen in Boujis, the fashionable Knightsbridge club.

Company director Steve Williams has made a formal complaint after alleging the police escort flashed its lights and forced him to drive at breakneck speed in heavy traffic as it tailgated him and his family – including an eight-month-old baby – on the M4 near Slough, Berkshire, he told the Mail on Sunday.

He described how he let the Audi, which he believes was travelling at more than 100mph, pass him in the outside lane after it allegedly bore down on him with headlights flashing.

He said he allowed it to pass before pulling out again and becoming sandwiched between it and the unmarked police Range Rover.

Because of the heavy traffic at the time, it was some time before he could find a space to pull over again.

He claims the car pressurised him into speeding up and tailgated him until he was able to move out of the way.
“It was very close,” he added.

“I thought they were going to nudge me. It was frightening. The middle lane was busy so I couldn’t pull back in. I had no option but to accelerate, forcing me well over the 70mph speed limit to speeds I was uncomfortable with.”

He did not spot the man who he believes was the prince in the Audi’s passenger seat until all the cars were later caught by traffic lights in West London.

Mr Williams complained to Thames Valley Police, which has in turn passed it to the Metropolitan Police, which is responsible for the Royal Family’s protection unit.

Neither the Metropolitan Police or Clarence House would comment on the story.

Clarence House would not even confirm that the prince was on the road, the most direct route to London from his father’s home at Highgrove in Gloucestershire or from Windsor, at the time.