Royal intrigue took a hit Sunday night when Princess Diana’s ex flatly denied that he’s the biological father of Prince Harry.
James Hewitt, who served in the Queen’s Life Guard regiment, was
romantically linked to Diana for five years after he was hired at
Buckingham Palace in 1986 to provide horse riding lessons — a decade
before she divorced Prince Charles and two years after Harry was born.
Rumors had circled for decades about whether Hewitt was the father of Harry, who was born in 1984.
But the former army officer shot down the speculation Sunday on the Australian TV show “Sunday Night.”
“No, I’m not,” the 58-year-old responded to the blunt question.
After host Melissa Doyle told him that the rumors of the prince’s
paternity likely continued because “it sells paper,” Hewitt expressed
sympathy for the 32-year-old royal.
“It's worse for him probably,” he said. “Poor chap.”
The princess and her riding instructor kept home like an ordinary couple, Hewitt said in his interview.
“It’s a gradual period and then, you know, suddenly you can’t get
enough of each other or see each other as much as you want,” he said.
“I’d cook and she’d wash up. Just dinner and relaxing and laughing.”
Diana and Hewitt’s affair ended in 1991, when he was called to serve in the Gulf War.
The princess was killed in a car crash in Paris in August 1997.
Hewitt never married or had children. And he doesn’t regret meeting Diana.
“I regret some of the things that have been caused by that but not that at all. No way,” he said on “Sunday Night.”
“I think she was quite easy to fall in love with really so I think I can be forgiven for that.”
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