James Hewitt (born 1958), a former British household cavalry officer, was a sexual partner of Diana, Princess of Wales for five years. He has courted controversy by revealing details of their affair. There were rumours of a palace deal with newspapers but this is not corroborated.
Princess Diana admitted in her notable Panorama interview that she had committed adultery with Hewitt. As Diana was then the wife of the Prince of Wales, heir to the th...
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James Hewitt (born 1958), a former British household cavalry officer, was a sexual partner of Diana, Princess of Wales for five years. He has courted controversy by revealing details of their affair. There were rumours of a palace deal with newspapers but this is not corroborated.
Princess Diana admitted in her notable Panorama interview that she had committed adultery with Hewitt. As Diana was then the wife of the Prince of Wales, heir to the throne, it was suggested that Hewitt had committed high treason, as such an affair is proscribed by the Treason Act 1351. The affair ended in 1992.
Hewitt 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. He 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....
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