Prince Harry recalls how ex Caroline Flack's family suffered from their relationship

Prince Harry candidly wrote about his relationship with his ex-girlfriend Caroline Flack in his new memoir Spare.

Describing the late TV presenter as "funny, sweet and cool" the Duke of Sussex said that they met in a restaurant in 2009 with mutual friends.

"She wasn’t taken aback that I didn’t recognise her. She didn’t have a big ego," he wrote.

However, their romance turned short when they were caught by paparazzi.  

He added: "Very soon after they papped me and Flack, those photos set off a frenzy. Within hours a mob was camped outside Flack’s parents’ house, and all her friends’ houses, and her grandparents’ house."

"She was described in one paper as my “bit of rough”, because she once worked in a factory or something. Jesus, I thought, are we really such a country of insufferable snobs?

"We kept on, I think, because we genuinely enjoyed each other’s company, and because we didn’t want to admit defeat at the hands of these a****.

"But the relationship was tainted, irredeemably, and in time we realised it just wasn’t worth the grief and harassment. Especially for her family. Goodbye, we said. Goodbye and good luck."

Harry fondly recalled Caroline being "so light and funny" and felt "awful" when he heard the tragic news about her death from overdose. 

He said: "I felt so awful for her family. I remembered how they’d all suffered for her mortal sin of going out with me. She’d been so light and funny that night we met. The definition of carefree."