Prince Harry ‘snuck in hunting trip to Bavaria with aristocrat dubbed The Boar Terminator’ while part-time vegan girlfriend Meghan Markle filmed in Canada
The 32-year-old royal reportedly enjoyed a 'very bloody weekend' before meeting up with Meghan in London last week
PRINCE Harry ‘sneaked off’ to Germany to hunt wild boar while his animal-lover girlfriend Meghan Markle was filming in Toronto.
Sebastian Shakespeare reports for the that the 32-year-old royal joined his friend Prince Franz Albrecht zu Oettingen-Spielberg, an avid hunter dubbed 'The Boar Terminator’, for a “very bloody weekend”.
Harry joined the hunting party at Oettingen Castle in Bavaria, while part-time vegan Meghan, 35, was filming hit TV series Suits, days before the pair met in London last week.
A source who took part in the hunt said the 50-strong group killed “just about anything you could point a gun at” including wild boar and deer.
The source added that Harry enjoyed a “very bloody weekend”.
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Prince Franz, whose wedding Harry attended earlier this year, is a renowned hunter who posts shooting tutorials online.
The German aristocrat acquired his nickname after a viral video showed him killing multiple wild boar in quick succession in a snow covered forest.
His wife, Cleopatra von Adelsheim von Ernest, is also an actress who has featured in German films and TV shows.
It is not clear what Meghan thinks of Harry’s love of shooting wild animals for sport.
The American actress has two shelter dogs called Bogart and Guy and has even admitted to eating vegan ‘during the week’.
While speaking about rescuing her two vulnerable hounds, she said: “My home of Los Angeles County puts down more dogs per capita than any other city in the US. So rescuing was a no-brainer.”
The Sun Online contacted Buckingham Palace but they declined to comment on the story.
Harry angered animal-rights groups in 2004 when he was pictured crouching over the body of a dead water buffalo he had shot in Argentina.
Aged 20, the royal shot the beast on a gap year trip to South America with then-girlfriend Chelsy Davy - whose father owns a trophy hunting estate in Zimbabwe, reports the .
Harry is also known to stalk stag and has taken part in the Boxing Day shoot near Sandringham since he was aged 12.
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