Why Prince Harry & Meghan Markle Haven't Given Up Their Royal Title
Prince Harry is acutely alert of the rumors astir his "real father."
For decades, there's been speculation that Princess Diana's erstwhile person James Hewitt is the 38-year-old's true begetter (despite the information that Harry was calved successful 1984 and the couple's romance reportedly started successful 1987.)
And allegedly, nary different than King Charles III would laugh disconnected the paternity claims, according to Harry's caller memoir, Spare.
"Pa liked telling stories, and this was 1 of the champion successful his repertoire," Harry wrote in the book, per NBC News. He said Charles utilized to joke, "'Who knows if I'm truly the Prince of Wales? Who knows if I'm adjacent your existent father? Maybe your existent begetter is successful Broadmoor, darling boy!'"
Recalling however Charles would "laugh and laugh," Harry went connected to accidental it was "a remarkably unfunny joke, fixed the rumor circulating conscionable past that my existent begetter was 1 of Mummy's erstwhile lovers: Major James Hewitt."
"One origin of this rumor was Major Hewitt's flaming ginger hair, but different origin was sadism," Harry shared. "Tabloid readers were delighted by the thought that the younger kid of Prince Charles wasn't the kid of Prince Charles. They couldn't get capable of this 'joke,' for immoderate reason. Maybe it made them consciousness amended astir their lives that a young prince's beingness was laughable."
However, Harry set the grounds consecutive by noting successful his memoir, "Never caput that my parent didn't conscionable Major Hewitt until agelong aft I was born, the communicative was simply excessively bully to drop."
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James Hewitt, present 64, has besides denied the claims, suggesting successful 2017 that the rumor lone continues to circulate successful bid to "sells papers." He added, "It's worse for him probably, mediocre chap."
Buckingham Palace declined to remark connected the book's allegations erstwhile contacted by NBC News. (E! is simply a subordinate of the NBCUniversal family.)
Read connected for more bombshells from Prince Harry's book, retired Jan. 10.
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