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'Prince Harry should shut his mouth... he just doesn't get America': American Pie singer Don McLean on his $11 million divorce, his young model girlfriend - and why the 'show horse' prince should learn some manners


Having just released a new album, American Boys, US singer-songwriter Don Mclean, who is most famous for his 1971 hit American Pie, shows no signs of slowing down at 78.

Having aimed so many stinging barbs at the Royal Family in his bestselling memoir Spare, it was easy to overlook one choice comment Prince Harry made about America’s very own king – Elvis Presley. Married for 29 years, their relationship came to an abrupt end in 2016 after Don was arrested at their Maine home when Patrisha claimed he had ‘terrorised me for four hours until the 911 call that I think might have saved my life’. They rented out their house for seven years and by the time Don was in his twenties and had secured a record deal, he was able to move his mother and his older sister, Betty Anne, back into the family home.

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