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<b>By Jane Seymour, Royal Editor

Prince Harry yesterday issued a statement urging the media to "lay off" his new girlfriend. But in doing so he confirmed what the Press and magazines have been rumouring... that he is in a relationship with Miss Marple.</b>

Miss Marple, or Jane, as she is known to close friends, is a few years older than Harry but has always had a sense of fun and a love of large parties at remote country houses.


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Harry's statement told the Press that Miss Marple needed some privacy and said some of the coverage of his new love was racist, calling her a "little wrinkly old English lady" and personal, with coverage of where she buys her tweed hats, and even her brassieres.

Miss Marple, whose hobbies are knitting, gardening and playing amateur detective, is believed to be seriously in love with the dashing young Prince.

It is not known whether they will move into her country cottage, at St Mary's Mead in Devon.

The Suffolk Gazette traced Miss Marple to Bertram's Hotel, where the couple spent an intimate weekend in the Vicarage Suite and where, coincidentally Miss Marple once solved a major crime.

The Editor said: "We have taken Prince Harry's privacy statement on board and will be giving the couple space for their relationship to develop, unless they stay somewhere in Suffolk."