I stay away from Royal nonsense usually because it’s all so mashed up you can’t tell who’s telling the truth, but Harry’s the one with the book, so he’s who we’re hearing from now.
Harry writes that his father would often tell anecdotes about meeting a man in a mental hospital who claimed he was Prince Charles.
According to the Duke’s retelling, Charles then joked: ‘Who knows if I’m even 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 going around at the time that his real father was James Hewitt.
Mr Hewitt had a five-year affair with Princess Diana when he was a young Household Cavalry officer, 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 he was a product of the affair.
