Princess Diana's former lover opens up in rare interview
Army Major James Hewitt, who had a five-year affair with the late Princess Diana from 1986, has spoken about the royal in a rare television interview with Good Morning Britain on Tuesday.
When asked about whether he thinks Diana may have been able to reunite her sons, who have barely spoken in five years, he replied: "I think any mother would be worried and concerned about such a rift, as you put it."
"And she'd do her best to try and get them together."
Major Hewitt, who now spends his time doing aid work in Ukraine, revealed that the last time he had spoken to the late Princess was "just after" her BBC Panorama interview with Martin Bashir in November 1995, during which she admitted to their affair.
He described the conversation as "distant" and admitted that the interview did "create problems" for him from which he was "trying to move on".
After the affair was revealed, Major Hewitt was labelled as a "love rat" by the tabloid media and found his reputation in ruins.
He also said that the interview was "very distressing" for the late Princess, as someone she had trusted had used their connection to make money.
"It was a stitch-up job," he said of the Panorama interview.
"It was appalling of Bashir to [have] inveigled, lied to her, criminal activity, absolutely appalling."
"As I've said, I hate bullies and bullying and arrogant people and I think it's appalling."
Major Hewitt, who was Diana's riding instructor at the time, has previously denied claiming to have been a "father figure" to the princes but has said that he "played with them, swam with them, taught them to ride".
The Duke of Sussex had also addressed the rumours that Major Hewitt was his biological father in his memoir Spare, saying that he felt the rumours were designed to turn him into a "laughing stock".
"One cause of the rumour was Major Hewitt's red hair, but another was sadism," he wrote in his memoir.
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