ANOTHER friend of the circle with whom Prince William associates has been seen taking cocaine at a fashionable London party. The friend was named yesterday as Izzy Winkler, a 22-year-old socialite at Edinburgh University. A fellow party-goer said: "I saw Izzy sniffing cocaine from a tabletop. This is not telling tales. The complacency about the set who have appointed themselves William's friends deserves to be challenged before some terrible accident occurs." Winkler, in her third year of a philosophy degree, is friends with Laura Parker Bowles, the sister of Tom Parker Bowles, one of William's most trusted friends, who admitted taking cocaine last year. [continues 699 words]
Lord Frederick Windsor, the son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and a friend of Prince William, has admitted taking cocaine. Two witnesses told The Sunday Times that they saw the Queen's cousin taking the drug after arriving at a recent party in west London in the early hours of the morning. Frederick, 20, who is the great-grandson of George V and 28th in line to the throne, has established a reputation for high living at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he is about to enter his second year studying classics. [continues 528 words]
THE PRINCE of Wales is said by close friends to be "fraught with worry" over fresh revelations that friends of Prince William are heavy users of cocaine and other illegal drugs. Peregrine Hood, 24, the son of Viscount Bridport and an acquaintance of Prince William, has a drug habit that is "now out of control". A friend, concerned by the abuse, has revealed how Hood, a friend of Tom Parker Bowles, recently consumed drugs at several London parties. "I have seen him sniffing cocaine often," the source said. [continues 392 words]
The son of Camilla Parker Bowles, the longstanding companion of the Prince of Wales, has admitted to having a drug problem after he was seen taking cocaine at a party. Tom Parker Bowles, 24, who is a friend of Prince William and a godson of Prince Charles, was cautioned for possession of cannabis and ecstasy four years ago. The admission that he has continued taking drugs came after The Sunday Times approached him yesterday with evidence of cocaine abuse at a weekend party. Parker Bowles was said last night to be "very sorry" and "humbled" by the revelations. [continues 444 words]
