When the couple’s security guard noticed they were being followed, he instructed Singh to drive back to the precinct.Īround 11:30, Singh returned them to the precinct, and they climbed back into the same black SUV they had been traveling in before, he said.
The truck moved out of their way less than five minutes later, but as Singh drove, he said, he saw paparazzi following them in at least two cars.
“His wife looked scared, and Harry was nervous. “All of a sudden, the paparazzi came out of nowhere and just started snapping pictures,” he said, adding that he heard one of the women from the back say, “‘Oh, my God.’” Police then escorted them to the 19th police precinct on the Upper East Side, the official said.Īround 11 p.m., a little over an hour after they had left the ballroom, one of their security staff hailed a cab outside the police precinct, according to the taxi’s driver, Sukhcharn Singh.Īfter traveling for about a block, they got stuck behind a garbage truck, Singh said. They were driven around for about an hour, traveling up the FDR Drive at one point, but they could not shake the paparazzi. The episode began Tuesday evening at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in midtown, where Harry, Meghan and her mother, Doria Ragland, were attending the Women of Vision Awards, where Meghan was among the honorees.Īround 9:50 p.m., the family left the theater to return to the Upper East Side where they were staying, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the matter.Ĭoncerned that paparazzi who had gathered outside the theater would follow them, Harry and Meghan left in a private security vehicle with a police escort, the official said. It illustrated any number of issues surrounding the Duke and Duchess of Sussex: their incandescent fame and the news media’s endless appetite for stories about them their frosty relationship with the Crown and their fight for a royal security detail and their determination to avoid the paparazzi’s lenses, surely informed by the tragic death of Diana, Harry’s mother, as she rode in a car speeding away from them in Paris in 1997.
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