Prince Harry pressured New York cops to speed up their investigation and make arrests after their ‘high speed’ chase with photographers through the streets of Manhattan.
He even claimed there was a cover-up, letters and emails obtained by DailyMail.com show.
‘The duke feels intentionally misled and is suspicious of a cover-up,’ one missive from his security company to the New York Police Department said.
Harry also demanded that arrests be made the very next day and threatened to make an official complaint. The demand came after John Hart, the NYPD’s top intelligence officer, had sent police in London two letters, one saying there was not enough evidence to make arrests and a second – three months later – saying there was.
To date, no arrests have been made in connection with the May 2023 incident.
Hart’s original letter was sent in September 2023. The second arrived on December 6 that year, midway through a hearing in London when he was trying to get the British government to pay for protection for him and his family while visiting the UK.
But TorchStone then sent an email saying Harry was upset at the slow pace of the NYPD’s investigation and felt ‘intentionally misled’.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leaving the Ziegfeld Theatre in Manhattan on May 16, 2023. Later this night after meeting their private security company, they’d allegedly be chased down by paparazzi during a bizarre ‘two-hour’ car chase
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Meghan received the Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Award and posed with journalist and feminist activist Gloria Steinem
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The couple said in a statement that after they left the ceremony they were involved in a ‘near catastrophic car chase’ involving a ‘a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi’
Harry even asked California Governor Gavin Newsom for a contact with the prosecutors in New York – and wanted to take the matter higher if ‘necessary’.
This new information is the latest twist surrounding the car chase incident after Harry’s wife Meghan Markle had received the Ms. Foundation for Women of Vision Award at the Ziegfeld Ballroom on May 16 of last year.
The couple claimed in a statement that after they left the ceremony they were involved in a ‘near catastrophic car chase’ involving ‘a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi’ who pursued them through the streets of Manhattan.
One of their security team, Chris Sanchez from TorchStone, told CNN that it was ‘chaotic’ and ‘could have been fatal’ and involved ruthless photographers jumping curbs and going through red lights. Footage captured by TMZ showed Harry and Meghan in a taxi at one point.
Omid Scobie, a biographer of the Sussexes, even claimed the ‘pursuit went on for two hours’ and Harry and Meghan’s car ‘went up to 80 miles an hour’.
But skeptics immediately called the account into question because of the amount of traffic there usually is on Manhattan streets.
New York Mayor Eric Adams said it was ‘hard to believe’ there was a lengthy high speed car chase.
