No charges filed against Britain's Prince Harry

LONDON -- Police in the western English county where Prince Harry reportedly experimented with alcohol and marijuana said Thursday he would not face any police action.

Wiltshire police said they had finished an inquiry into events at the Rattlebone Inn, where Harry, then 16, drank with friends.

"We now consider the matter closed and there is no further investigation to take place," a police spokesman said on condition of anonymity.

Harry admitted last summer that he'd drunk with friends at the pub near his father Prince Charles' Highgrove country estate and smoked marijuana with friends, said press reports confirmed by a royal source. Marijuana is illegal in Britain and the drinking age is 18.

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

The episode made tabloid headlines in January.

, and Charles won widespread praise for his handling of it.