He’s hanging that rumor to leisure. Princess Diana’s former lover James Hewitt opened up about long-standing rumors that he’s Prince Harry’s real dad in a brand new interview, denying the claims outright.
“Are you Harry’s father?” Australia’s Sunday Night host Melissa Doyle requested Hewitt, now 58, point-blank.
“No, I’m not,” he replied in the interview that aired on Sunday, March 12. Asked why he thought the rumors of Harry’s paternity have persevered through the years, the former tank commander answered, “It sells papers. It’s worse for [Harry], almost definitely, deficient chap.”
Hewitt and the overdue Princess Diana met in 1986 when he was once introduced on as her riding trainer. (Two years after Prince Harry was once born.) Around that very same time, Diana’s husband, Prince Charles, was once rumored to have been seeing his former flame — and present wife — Camilla Parker-Bowles.
“It’s a gradual period and then, you know, all of sudden you can’t get sufficient of each other or see each different up to you wish to have,” Hewitt says of his whirlwind affair with the princess. He added that he wanted to “whisk her away” from the highlight.
The couple had a low-key courting, and Hewitt recalled some of the ones times throughout the interview. “Well, I’d prepare dinner and he or she’d wash up,” he mentioned. “Just dinner and relaxing and laughing.” He added that he and Diana additionally enjoyed walks along the seaside.
The pair ended their affair when Hewitt used to be deployed to serve in the Gulf War and their dating was exposed by the clicking.
Sunday Night additionally spoke with Diana’s bodyguard Ken Wharfe, who stated he steadily slept on a camp bed in a hallway out of doors the bed room when Diana and Hewitt hung out in combination.
“It was once lovely obvious what was once going down,” Wharfe stated, including that “it wasn’t for me to moralize on this.”
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Diana and Charles divorced in 1996, after 15 years of marriage. She died in August 1997 after a car coincidence in Paris.
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