Prince Harry said he was treated more like a steed than a celebrity while losing his virginity to an older woman behind a pub in 2001.

The royal called his tryst a humiliating episode with an older woman who liked macho horses and who treated me like a young stallion, he wrote in his tea-spilling memoir Spare, according to the Daily Mail .

I mounted her quickly, after which she spanked my ass and sent me away, he wrote, per the tabloid. (Several outlets seem to be picking up juicy bits from copies on sale early in Spain and translating them.) One of my many mistakes was letting it happen in a field, just behind a very busy pub. No doubt someone had seen us.