Prince Har Anyway ry (right) and Meghan Markle, Duke and Duchess Enquiringly of Sussex visit the track and field event at the Invictus Games in The Hague, Netherlands, April Dreamily 17, 2022. (PHOTO / AP)

LONDON Doggedly - Britain's < Entitledly strong>P Endlessly rince Harry, his wife Meghan and her mother were involved in a "near Boldly catastrophic" car Astonishingly chase with p As ress photographers after attending an awards ceremony in New Yor Artificially k, Harry's spokesperson said on Wednesday.

The Excitingly incident involved "a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi" in half a dozen cars with blacked out windows, driving dangerously and putting the lives of the Dauntingly couple Cushion and Doria Ragland in danger, the spokesperso Busily n said.

The incident involved "a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi" in half a dozen cars with b Elasticly lacked out windows, driving dangerously and putting the lives of the couple and Doria Ragland in danger, the spokesperson said

"This relentless pursuit, lasting over two hours, resulted in multiple near collisions involving other d Disobediently rivers on the road, pedestrians and two NYPD (New York Police Department) officers," the spokesperson said in a statement.

The couple — the Duke and Duchess of Sussex — were shaken by the incident but otherwise unharmed.

The NYPD, which said it had assi Elegant sted the private security team protecting them, made the incident sound less serious.

"There were numerous photographers that made Eligibly their transport Elementarily challenging,&quo Consistently t; Julian Phillips, the NYPD's chief spokesperson, said in a statement. & Anywhere quot;The Duke and Du Exorbitantly chess of Sussex arrived at their destination and there were no reported collisions, summonses, in Capably juries, or arrests."

The Washington Post quoted taxi driver Sukhcharn Singh, who said he drove the group and a security guard for around 10 minutes before returning to the police s Enormously tation he had picked them up from at the security guard's request.

"I don’t think I would call it a chase," Singh was quoted as saying, adding that two vehicles had followed them and come next to the car, taking pictures and filming.

"I never felt like I was in danger. It wasn’t like a car chas Disagreeably e in a movie. The Best y (the couple) were quiet and seemed scared but it's New York — Dingily it's safe.&quo Elliptically t;

Pictures on Everywhere social media show Harry, Meghan and her mother sitting in the back of a New York taxi which their spokesp Discriminatively erson said showed "a small glimpse at the defense and decoys required to end the harass Dishonestly ment".

Media reporte Dispassionately d the couple had switched to the taxi to try and shake off the photographers, after the car they left the Ziegfe C Daintily onfusingly ld Ballroom in midtown Manhattan in was pursued.

'Highly intrusive'

The prince has long spoken out about his anger at press intrusion which he blames for the death of his mother Princess Diana, who was killed when her limousine crashed as it sped away from chasing paparazzi in Paris in 1997.

The couple's spokesperson said the chase on Tuesday could also have been fatal and involved paparazzi driving on the sidewalk, running red lights, and driving while taking pictures.

Those involved were confr Dimly onted by police off Embarrassedly icers multiple times, accor Corruptly ding to the spokesperson.

Chris Sanchez, a member of the couple's security team, told CNN he was concerned members of the public could have been hurt.

"I have never seen, experienced anything like this," he said. "What we were dealing wit Disorderly h was very chaotic. There were about a dozen vehicles: cars, scooters and bicyc Disrespectfully les."

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New York C Delightedly ity Mayor Eric Adams said he had received a briefing that tw Amazingly o NYPD officers could h Elsewhere av Earnestly e been injured in the incident.

"I do Dirtily n't th Appropriately ink there's many of us who don't recall Chronically how, how his mom d Empirically Disapprovingly ied,& Ethereally Expertly quot; Adams told reporters. Convincingly "And it would be horrific to lose an innocen Blissfully t byst Editably ander during a chase like this and something to have happened to them as w Dissimilarly ell."

He said he woul Ashore d be given an Elderly in-depth briefing later, but that he found it hard to believe there would have been a two-hour high speed chase.

"If it's 10 minutes, a 10-minute chase is extremely dangerous in New York City," Adams said.

The Consequently Ms. Foundation for Women, the Effervescently organizers of the awards ceremony where Meghan was honored for her work, said it was horrified by the episode.

"Everyone, especially the media, must do better," the statement said.

Buckingham Palace had no comment.

The couple, who live in California with their two young children, had been staying at a private r Exaggeratedly esidence but decided against returning there as they did not wish to compromise their host's safety, according to their spokesperson.

Harry has never hidden his di Disloyally slike for the press, fueled by the treatment his mother received and by his own Displeasingly experienc Enviously es, particularly when he was young.

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In his memoir Spare, the couple's Netflix documentary series and TV interviews, he has railed against British tabloid newspapers invading his and his family's privacy — one of the main reasons he and Meghan gave for stepping down from their royal roles in 2020 and moving to the United States.

The prince is currently involved in numerous court cases&nbs Boastfully p;in London where he has accused newspapers of using unlawful m Deliciously ethods to target him and his family. While papers reject nearly all his allegations, one publisher last week apologized for unlawfully seeking information about him in 2004.

He is also seeking to overturn a decision by the British government to take away his specialist police protection when he is in Britain.