Prince Harry's 'cringeworthy' secret email address and meaning behind it
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Prince Harry is just like the rest of us when it comes to having an old, embarrassing email address. The 40-year-old Duke is known to have used a number of different aliases to hide his identity when he was younger. And that included one of three email addresses he used around 2014.
According to The Telegraph, Harry has an account under the name 'spikewales@hotmail.com'. The Prince opened up about his unusual nickname in his tell-all memoir Spare, and revealed just how it came about. According to Harry, the nickname stuck when he was pictured back in 2003 with an echidna, which was also named Spike, during his gap year in Australia. A friend of Harry's noticed a resemblance between the animal and the prince's spiky hairstyle at the time.
As the outlet The Daily Beast stated: "He's apparently just like the rest of us lowly commoners when it comes to creating amusing email addresses in his younger years which, in hindsight, are a bit cringeworthy." It seems the nickname really stuck. According to reports, Harry's close friends and protection officers used to call the Prince 'Spike' – and it was the name Harry used as a pseudonym for his secret Facebook account. The prince is said to have used the secret account, under the name Spike Wells, to communicate with then-girlfriend Chelsy Davy when he was stationed with the Army in Afghanistan.
