Tattooed cocktail waitress with long-term boyfriend 'did spend night with Prince Harry'
By Rebecca English
Last updated at 1:04 AM on 25th October 2011
Lives with her boyfriend: Jessica Donaldson
He vowed that his stint in the US would be all work and no play, but already Prince Harry has been accused of spending the night with cocktail waitress sporting a large tattoo – and an even bigger boyfriend.
The helicopter pilot prince, who is three weeks into an advanced weapons training course in California, apparently invited brunette Jessica Donaldson to his hotel room after a late-night drinking session.
According to staff at the Marriott hotel in Solano Beach, near San Diego, the pretty 26-year-old wasn’t seen leaving until 10.30am the next day.
Despite insisting that it ‘must have been some other girl’, Jessica, who lives with her boyfriend of three years, burly nightclub promoter Brandon Thomason, was positively identified by at least two independent sources.
The 27-year-old prince, who is third in line to the throne, met Jessica, who has a rose tattoo running across her midriff, when he visited the Ivy nightclub in San Diego, a two hour drive from his base on Friday, October 7.
She works there as a ‘bottle girl’, selling over-priced vodka to tables of wealthy punters at £350 a time.
Harry, who was with a large group of army air corps colleagues as well as his Scotland Yard security detail, bought two bottles and began chatting to Jessica.
At the end of the night, a man she believed was one of his bodyguards asked for her number and said the prince would like to meet her for brunch the next day.
Jessica and a friend met up with him and his group for scrambled eggs and carried on drinking fruit cocktails at a Mexican bar for the rest of the day.
Prince Harry is weapons training in California and apparently invited Miss Donaldson back to his hotel room
He then got a friend to text Jessica and invite her along to a see a band at the Belly Up Tavern, also in Solano Beach, the weekend before last. It is here that they were pictured laughing and chatting intimately, sharing what appeared to be a long, slow kiss on the lips.
Jessica denies that they did so, insisting that it was a ‘bad camera angle’.
She also rejects claims by staff at the nearby Marriot Hotel that she visited Harry at his room there, suite 202, saying: ‘It must have been another girl. I am sure Harry has lots of girls.’
Couple: Jessica Donaldson and her burly nightclub promoter boyfriend Brandon Thomason
Wild in white: Jes poses with a friend at the Ivy Nightclub at Andaz in matching white tracksuits
But one source at the hotel says: ‘Harry and the brunette were kissing [in the lobby]. They ended up going back to his room. In the morning he walked her to a blue car that arrived to pick her up.’
Jessica has admitted that Harry is ‘a real life Prince Charming’ but says: ‘I am not sleeping with Prince Harry and he has never been anything but a total gentleman to me. I am very upset that this has all blown up.
'I’m flattered he showed me attention but that is all there is to it. I really like him but I have a boyfriend and I just want this to all go away.’
Top gun: Prince Harry stands in front of an Apache Helicopter during his training in the US
Her partner, Mr Thomason, added: ‘When I first saw the pictures of Jes with Harry I talked to her and she assured me that nothing went on. She told me they didn’t kiss and I believe her.’
The prince is an Apache attack helicopter pilot with the Army Air Corps and is currently completing the final stage of his training in the US with a view to returning to Afghanistan next year. He will be based in California until early December.
His spokesman at St James’s Palace has declined to comment on the reports.
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