The taxi driver who transported Harry and Meghan for about ten minutes on Tuesday night, when they were chased by paparazzi in New York, he says they both looked “nervous” and assures that there was no danger during their journey, in statements to the BBC. Sukhcharn Singh, nicknamed Sonny, made statements to the press at the doors of his house in the Queens neighborhood, when he recounted that, if the couple were besieged in an “almost catastrophic” persecution, as his spokeswoman maintains, It must have been before he picked them up at a Manhattan police station.

The BBC explains that when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, found themselves harassed by photographers in vehicles as they left an awards gala on Tuesday, they sought refuge in a police station, which is where the taxi driver picked them up. singh denies that during their route they ran any riskseither. “I don’t think so, I think it is exaggerated. Don’t make too much of it,” he said, adding that the allegedly dangerous chase “should have happened before” they got into his taxi.

Also rejects that the paparazzi were aggressive at that time. “They were behind us. I mean, we had them on top of us, that was it, nothing more. They kept their distance,” he told the BBC. Singh recounts that he was driving down 67th Street in New York when the bodyguard called him and unexpectedly “had Prince Harry and his wife getting into the cab.”

“A garbage truck blocked us (the way) and, suddenly, the paparazzi arrived and started taking pictures“. The couple was going to communicate their destination but, after assessing the situation, the security guard decided that it was better to return to the police station, explains the BBC. “They looked nervous, I think they had been persecuted all day or something.” , declares the taxi driver.

“They were quite nervous, but the security guard had it (the situation) under control,” he adds. Singh described the dukes as “friendly people”, who at the end of the short drive asked his name and said they had been “delighted to meet you”. The bodyguard gave him a tip. The New York Police have confirmed to the Post that there was no “collision” that night and that the incident in no case lasted two hours.