[ 2014-12-29 ]

James Hewitt, Prince Harry and Prince Charles

Prince Harry was fathered by James Hewitt, new play claims
A controversial new play about Princess Diana will
reignite rumours that Prince Charles is not Prince
Harry’s father.

The West End production - Truth, Lies, Diana -
will suggest that former Household Cavalry officer
James Hewitt fathered the fourth in line to the
throne during his affair with Princess Diana.

Writer Jon Conway claims Hewitt personally
admitted his relationship with Diana started 18
months before Harry was born, and backed the play
by allowing the revelation to be used.

The explosive scene sees Hewitt tell a journalist:
“Diana and I started our relationship more than
a year before Harry was born.

“Now that doesn’t prove that I am his father.
It’s just the inconvenient truth.”

The subject is raised again when Hewitt’s
character is asked if he knows who Harry’s dad
is, replying: “Of course I do”.

The play, which has already had a successful stint
in New York, is due to open at the Charing Cross
Theatre in London’s West End on January 9 and
play until mid-February.

Mr Conway said he had spent two years interviewing
Hewitt, 56, and had elicited some “remarkable”
admissions during their conversations.

“There is a startling revelation that James
Hewitt makes and he has allowed me to make it in
the play”, he said.

“This is the fact that his relationship with
Diana started 18 months before Prince Harry was
born.”

The rumour, which has dogged the Royal Family for
years, first emerged in the mid-1990s when
Diana’s affair with Hewitt became public
knowledge for the first time.

Royal commentators have repeatedly rebuffed the
claim, saying the affair did not start until 1986,
two years after Prince Harry was born, and the
claims drove Diana "wild with fury".

Penny Junor, the author of a new biography of
Harry, says Hewitt was not on the scene in 1984,
and points to a negative DNA test conducted by the
News of the World in 2003 on a strand of Harry’s
ginger hair.

“If Harry had been shown to be James Hewitt’s
son, you can be sure we’d have known", she
said.

Neville Thurlbeck, the News of the World’s
former chief reporter, dismissed it as a
“conspiracy theory” that had been “killed by
Fleet Street years ago”.

The play follows an investigator as he tries to
uncover the truth behind Princess Diana’s death
in a Paris car crash with then-lover Dodi Fayed in
1997.

Mr Conway based his script on a series of books by
investigative journalist John Morgan, and drew on
interviews with Hewitt and Diana’s former
butler, Paul Burrell, as well as transcripts of
the inquest into her death.

He said audience members will be able to decide
themselves whether Hewitt’s revelation is true,
and whether they believe his public denials about
fathering Harry.

Hewitt confirmed he had been interviewed for the
play and that he believed it was “accurate”,
but denied having read the actual script.

In 2003, he firmly denied being Harry’s father,
although admitted there were similarities between
the two of them.

“There really is no possibility whatsoever that
I am Harry’s father”, he said.

“I can absolutely assure you that I am not.

“Admittedly the red hair is similar to mine and
people say we look alike.

“I have never encouraged these comparisons and
although I was with Diana for a long time I must
state once and for all that I’m not Harry’s
father.”

He added that Prince Harry was already a toddler
when he met Diana.

Source - The Telegraph

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