Prince Harry and Meghan Markle “looked really nervous” while trying to unhook the photographers in New York City on Tuesday night, according to Sukhcharn Singh, a cab driver who drove them.
“Meghan was scared, Harry was nervous,” Singh said.
The pair claim they were in a “near-catastrophic car chase”, a “relentless chase” that lasted more than two hours “at the hands of a highly aggressive paparazzi ring”.
Law enforcement sources told CBS News that the couple left the Ms. Women of Vision Foundation at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in Midtown Manhattan at approximately 10:00 p.m. Concerned that the paparazzi might follow them to where they were staying, they circled Midtown for more than an hour accompanied by a private. security and the NYPD.
Singh recalled seeing three people – the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland – get out of a black SUV and then get into their yellow taxi. They were trying to lose the photographers.
“The paparazzi came out of nowhere, taking pictures, standing in front of the taxi and all that,” Singh said.
Singh said that after 10 to 15 minutes, the couple asked him to drop them off at a police station, where they could change vehicles and drive home.
No one was injured and police told CBS News that the encounter was not as serious as Harry and Meghan made it out to be.
The NYPD reported no collisions, citations, injuries or arrests in connection with the incident. The matter is currently under investigation and police sources told CBS News that the couple was not in danger during the ordeal. However, there was a moment when two NYPD officers may have been injured.
Harry’s mother, Princess Dianashe died in a tragic car accident in 1997 when paparazzi were chasing a car carrying her and her boyfriend, Dodi Al Fayed, through the streets of Paris.
Prince Harry has expressed concern about the possibility of similar incidents affecting his family. In a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, expressed her fears, stating, “My biggest concern was that history would repeat itself… And when I talk about history repeating itself, I’m talking about my mother.”
