Rare Photos Prove Prince Harry Was Lying About His Childhood

During Oprah Winfrey’s televised special with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle he recalled the media scrutiny he faced as a young member of the British royal family meaning he could not partake in ordinary activities like other kids growing up.

For example, Harry claims that riding bikes, as he does now with his son Archie, was strictly forbidden back then.

But several images have surfaced from the prince’s childhood that shows him riding bicycles alongside his mother, Princess Diana, father, Prince Charles, and brother, Prince William.

“The highlight for me is sticking [my son, Archie] on the back of a bicycle in his little baby seat and taking him on bike rides, which is something I was never able to do when I was young,” the prince claimed to Winfrey as quoted by Page Six. “I can seat him on the back, and he’s got his arms out, and he’s like, ‘Whoa.’”

Harry, who is now 36, can be seen in photos from the late ’80s and early ’90s enjoying cycling with his family. One photo shows the duke as a tot riding a blue bicycle with his brother William and his parents in the back during a getaway in Scilly, U.K. 

Other photos show the young princes on a cycling outing with their father at the family’s Sandringham Estate in Norfolk. Harry can be seen riding in a seat directly behind his father.

There was also a third photo from early 1990 showing Harry in the same mentioned bike seat as he’s surrounded by royal aides.