Harry claims Charles joked ‘Who is your real father?’ amid Diana rumour

Prince Harry uses his memoir to discuss his mother Diana’s affair with Major James Hewitt and claims his father Charles joked ‘Who knows if I’m your real father’ after meeting a mental patient who claimed to be the real one Prince of Wales.

In Spare, which accidentally premiered in Spain today, the Duke of Sussex says that Charles “liked to tell anecdotes” and that “one of his best” was the story of a visit to an asylum where he met a man who claimed to be the Prince of Wales.

According to the Duke’s account of the story, Charles wagged his finger at the patient and said ‘let’s see, you can’t be the Prince of Wales, I am the Prince of Wales’ only for the man to ‘respond with the same gesture’ .

Harry writes that his father liked to end his stories with a “philosophical glint”, and in this case he wondered if anyone could be sure he wasn’t “living in a fantasy”.

According to the duke’s account, Charles later quipped: ‘Who knows if I’m your real father? Perhaps your father really is in Broadmoor, my dear son! Harry wrote that the joke was “in poor taste” given the rumor circulating at the time that his real father was James Hewitt.

Harry says that Charles “liked to tell stories” and that “one of the best” was the story of a visit to an asylum where he met a man claiming to be the Prince of Wales.

Cavalry officer James Hewitt had a five-year relationship with Princess Diana from 1986 to 1991.

Hewitt had a five-year affair with Princess Diana when he was a young officer in the Household Cavalry, from 1986 to 1991.

This was confirmed by the Princess of Wales during the now infamous Panorama interview with disgraced journalist Martin Bashir.

Harry’s resemblance to the army officer led to claims that he was a product of the affair.

In his memoirs, the prince says that the rumors continued despite the fact that “my mother did not meet the elder Hewitt until long after I was born.”

He adds that if Charles thought anything about Commander Hewitt, he “kept it to himself.”

Elsewhere in the memoir, Harry claimed that he and William ‘begged’ Charles not to marry Camilla after Princess Diana’s death, fearing she was his ‘evil stepmother’.

The duke claims that he and his brother would not get in the way of the then-Prince of Wales’s relationship, but they had asked him not to walk down the aisle a second time, calling Camilla the ‘Other Woman’.

Charles had tried to “win over the children” before asking the public to accept Camilla, the book claims.

Hewitt had a five-year affair with Princess Diana that ended in 1991.

Harry claims that meeting her for the first time was like a “shot”, writing: “Close your eyes and you won’t even feel it.”

Harry also uses the book to accuse his older brother of being the aggressor during Megxit, claiming that their relationship has become so strained and damaged that the Prince of Wales would only ‘pucker’ him.

The duke reveals that he had a secret meeting with William and Charles hours after Prince Philip’s funeral in April 2021, near the tomb of King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, but said his father and brother did not hear him and claimed not to. understand why he emigrated.

In Spain, Spare is called ‘En La Sombra’, which translates as ‘In the Shadow’, and begins with the dedication: ‘For Meg, Archie and Lili… and, of course, my mother’.

The book won’t be out in the UK until Tuesday morning, but various extracts have been leaked to the press.

In Spain, Spare is called ‘En La Sombra’, which translates as ‘In the Shadow’, and begins with the dedication: ‘For Meg, Archie and Lili… and, of course, my mother’