Harry's first confesses 'IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE OUR SECRET'

Horsing around with the spare has come to haunt digger driver Sasha

- Judy Kean

It's been one of the most talked-about parts of Prince Harry's tell-all memoir Spare - how he lost his virginity to an older woman in a field behind a pub.

He didn't name the woman involved in the brief tryst and probably thought the story would go no further than the few lines it merits in the controversial book. But after it triggered a worldwide guessing game to try to uncover the identity of the mystery woman, digger driver Sasha Walpole stepped forward to admit, "It was me."

After keeping their encounter secret for 21 years, Sasha has now revealed intimate details of the spontaneous romp on her 19th birthday. She says she would have stayed quiet if Harry hadn't written about it, but his decision to share details about losing his virginity to her was like "living with a ticking timebomb".

"I was shocked and feel like he has brought this to my door," she says in a candid interview with British media. "I don't understand why he went into such detail. He could have said he lost his virginity and left it at that. But he described how it happened, in a field behind a pub.

"That's fine if you're not the other person involved. But if you're me, then you suddenly felt as if your world is getting a little bit smaller. He has done this to my privacy. I was going to keep my head down and not talk about it. If it wasn't in the book, none of this would be happening.