James Hewitt (born 1958) is a former British household cavalry officer in the British Army. He had an affair with Diana, Princess of Wales for five years, receiving extensive media coverage after revealing details of the affair.
Hewitt was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, but grew up in Kent and Devon. He was educated at Millfield School and Sandhurst.
He served as a Challenger tank commander in the Gulf War, and failed his exam for the rank of m...
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James Hewitt (born 1958) is a former British household cavalry officer in the British Army. He had an affair with Diana, Princess of Wales for five years, receiving extensive media coverage after revealing details of the affair.
Hewitt was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, but grew up in Kent and Devon. He was educated at Millfield School and Sandhurst.
He served as a Challenger tank commander in the Gulf War, and failed his exam for the rank of major three times. In March 1994, he was retired from the Life Guards after 17 years in military service and six months before the publication of Anna Pasternak's Princess in Love, a book for which Hewitt was a major source.
Diana, Princess of Wales, admitted in her 1995 Panorama interview that she had committed adultery with Hewitt. His former military regiment declared him persona non grata at their barracks.
Hewitt had considered committing suicide after his affair with Diana ended. He was preparing for a trip to France, and he wanted to...
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