In his memoirs with the German title “Reserve”, Prince Harry addresses headlines that had been significantly widespread in his youth. British tabloids had been keen on claiming that Harry wasn’t the son of right this moment’s King Charles III. – his father is alleged to be James Hewitt, a former lover of the late Princess Diana.
The 38-year-old tells of a narrative that his father informed him. A person pretended to be the Prince of Wales, though Charles held this title till the Queen’s loss of life in September 2022. At the top of his story, right this moment’s king mentioned: “Who knows if I’m really the Prince of Wales? Who even knows if I’m really your father?” Prince Harry, then simply a teen, apparently didn’t discover this joke, which his father “didn’t stop laughing at,” discovered humorous.
“One cause is sadism”
The cause is a rumor that was going round on the time, “according to which my actual father was one of Mummy’s former lovers: Major James Hewitt. One reason for this rumor was Major Hewitt’s fiery red hair, but another was sadism.” The tabloids wowed their viewers with the “idea that Prince Charles’ second child would not be Prince Charles’ child”. The readers “couldn’t get enough of this ‘joke’”.
Princess Diana and James Hewitt “didn’t know each other until long after I was born.” But the press stored harping on about this story, “embellishing it, and there was even talk of reporters looking into my DNA to prove the story.” Even right this moment, the rumors seem frequently in prolonged portraits of Harry, together with a scene during which Charles pulled his youngest apart and “assured him Major Hewitt wasn’t my real father.” This is “entirely made up”.
