Prince’s friend ‘robbed in street’

By The Newsroom

Published 2nd Mar 2012, 02:11 BST

A MAN has appeared in court charged with robbing a friend of Prince Harry as he chatted to him on the phone in the street.

The prince drove to help Thomas van Straubenzee after the incident in Battersea, south west London.

Winful Taylor, 27, of Streatham, London, is charged with robbery in Albert Bridge Road on 30 November last year.