Rattlebone Inn: Scene of Harry's underage drinking

Magistrates heard how Holland was persistently asked for drugs by a Sunday newspaper journalist, and finally supplied him with a bag of herbal cannabis in the pub's toilets.

Wiltshire police said no further action against the licensee of the pub - which has since changed hands - or the brewery is proposed.

It was claimed the prince drank at the pub while underage and smoked a joint at a late-night party he held at Highgrove.

The drug-taking and drinking are understood to have happened during a two-month period last summer, when Prince Harry was 16 and Prince Charles and Prince William were both away from Highgrove.

'Sensitive handling'

We want to stop young people getting involved with drugs and alcohol

Superintendent Mandy Evely

Prince Charles won praise for his sensitive handling of Harry's admissions.

He sent his son to a south London rehabilitation clinic for a day so he could talk to recovering addicts and see the dangers of drug use.

Following the allegations against Harry, police refused to rule out the possibility of action against him

Superintendent Mandy Evely, said he would be treated "exactly the same way" as any other young person.

She said: "We want to stop young people getting involved with drugs and alcohol."