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Art A-level ‘cheat’ scandal

A year after leaving Eton, Harry was accused by an art teacher of cheating in A-level coursework. ‘Broken-hearted, I wanted to release a statement, hold a press conference, tell the world: I did the work! I didn’t cheat,’ he writes. The cold-hearted Palace wouldn’t let him, he alleges. ‘In this, as in most things, the Palace stuck fast to the family motto: never complain, never explain. Especially if the complainer was an 18-year-old boy.’

All very scandalous. But also untrue: the Royal Family did release a statement, which strenuously denied the claims.
It was circulated by Clarence House on the day the story broke in October 2004 and begins: ‘It is not true that Harry cheated in his exam.’ It roundly dismissed what it called ‘unfounded allegations by a teacher in the context of a dispute with the school.’
Eton also described the claims as ‘untrue’ and ‘absurd’.