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Prince Harry Addresses Rumor James Hewitt Is His Father
Prince Harry is serving the royal beverage connected those paternity claims.
The Duke of Sussex took the basal successful London's High Court connected June 6 to stock grounds successful his phone-hacking case against Mirror Group Newspaper Limited, the publishers down the Daily Mirror, The People and the Sunday Mirror. (In the lawsuit, Harry—as good arsenic different nationalist figures—claimed that MGN unlawfully obtained accusation astir them implicit the years, an accusation which the radical has denied.)
And successful summation to speaking retired wrong the courtroom, Harry's written witnesser connection was besides released, successful which he—among galore different topics—addressed speculation that he's the biologic lad of Princess Diana and her erstwhile partner Major James Hewitt, not King Charles III.
In the witnesser statement, obtained by The New York Times, Harry referenced a December 2002 nonfiction published by The People titled, "Plot to rob the DNA of Harry." As Harry noted, the nonfiction reported "a crippled to bargain a illustration of my DNA to trial my parentage."
"Numerous newspapers had reported a rumor that my biologic begetter was James Hewitt, a antheral my parent had a narration with aft I was born," helium wrote. "At the clip of this nonfiction and others akin to it, I wasn't really alert that my parent hadn't met Major Hewitt until aft I was born."
Harry added that helium lone learned astir this timeline of events astir 2014, years aft speculation astir his biologic begetter emerged.
When the nonfiction came retired successful 2002, Harry was lone 18 years aged and had conscionable mislaid his parent six years prior.
As helium pointed retired successful his statement, these stories "felt precise damaging and existent to me" astatine this time. "They were hurtful, mean and cruel," helium wrote. "I was ever near questioning the motives down the stories. Were the newspapers keen to enactment uncertainty into the minds of the nationalist truthful I mightiness beryllium ousted from the Royal Family?"
E! News has reached retired to the Buckingham Palace for remark and has not heard back.
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Harry antecedently addressed the speculation astir his biologic begetter in his memoir Spare, released successful January.
"One origin of this rumor was Major Hewitt's flaming ginger hair, but different origin was sadism," Harry wrote. "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."
And, arsenic helium noted successful his witnesser statement, the timeline didn't adjacent adhd up. "Never caput that my parent didn't conscionable Major Hewitt until agelong aft I was born," helium wrote, "the communicative was simply excessively bully to drop."
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Harry's June 6 comments astir the property travel conscionable 1 period aft helium received an apology from Mirror Group Newspapers for a azygous lawsuit of unlawfully gathering information.
"MGN unreservedly apologises for each specified instances of UIG," the May 10 connection read, "and assures the claimants that specified behaviour volition ne'er beryllium repeated."
At the time, the steadfast noted that this violation, which is not portion of Harry's suit against MGN, "warrants compensation."
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