Back in 2016, a story made the rounds that a mishap occurred during a dinner party at the Royal Lodge in Windsor – one that reportedly involved a sword and Ed Sheeran accidentally getting cut in the face and needing stitches.
“Ed had been invited to dinner as a guest of Princess Beatrice. They all sat down and there were 20 or so guests, including Sarah Ferguson, James Blunt and his wife Sofia Wellesley,” a source told The Sun at the time. “As the night wore on they started talking about honors and apparently James Blunt joked that he would love a knighthood,”
“Beatrice jokingly said she could arrange it and fetched a ceremonial sword,” the source continued. “James played along…Beatrice, who was in great form, held the sword above him and said ‘arise Sir James’, just like her nan would at the Palace.”
“But she must have misjudged the weight or something and, instead of lightly tapping him on the shoulder, she swung it back, not knowing Ed was standing right behind her. The blade cut into his face and it was just a few inches from his right eye,” the source added.
In a 2017 interview, Ed was pretty coy when asked about it.
“I can’t talk about it,” Ed jokingly said on The Graham Norton Show at the time. “I don’t know what will happen if I do!”
But, as the conversation went on, his statements seemingly confirmed that the incident did happen.
“I have no idea how it came out as there weren’t a lot of people there that night. For two weeks after, I had a huge gash on my face and would tell people I fell and then suddenly, the story came out,” he said later on, before quickly backtracking with, “The alleged story came out.”
He also added soon after, “I remember telling my dad about it and he didn’t believe me. [He] said, ‘No, what really happened?’ ”
Ed’s manager, Stuart Camp, is speaking out about the whole sitch – and confirmed the rumor!
“I got quite protective over that. Because we’ve never publicly commented on it. But certain people said, ‘Oh, you should lie and say it wasn’t her and say it was someone else,’” Stuart said. “I said, ‘Well, we’re not telling anyone anything. I’m not lying, just because someone’s a f–king idiot.’ Because they’re thinking, yeah, I will get paralytic and take a sword off the wall. You’re just asking for trouble.”
“You know, we’ve not heard hide nor hair from her since,” he added.
