They never got tired of that ‘joke’, for some reason.” “Tabloid readers loved the idea that Prince Charles’s youngest son was not Prince Charles’s son. “One cause of the rumour was Major Hewitt’s red hair, but another was sadism. the rumour going around at the time that my real father was one of my mother’s ex-lovers: Major James Hewitt. In Spare, which was leaked last week after it was accidentally published in Spain, the duke writes: “.
However, the theory has never been openly discussed by anyone in the family until now. Well-known to those who lived through the press frenzy of the era, Diana’s and Hewitt’s affair hit all the headlines – especially after the affair was confirmed by the princess herself in her BBC Panorama interview.īut may not know much else about Hewitt and how he came to be caught up in a royal drama.įor years, rumours circulated that Hewitt was Harry’s real father. Military man Major James Hewitt was embroiled in one of the biggest royal scandals of the last century, when he had an affair with the Princess of Wales, Diana, during her marriage to Prince Charles. This includes those surrounding the royal family – past and present – such as James Hewitt. As Prince Harry attends court in another privacy case, this time brought against the Mirror Group, every aspect of modern royal drama has been under additional scrutiny.
