Prince Harry Slams 'Damaging' Rumors James Hewitt Is His Real Dad
"One cause of this rumor was Major Hewitt's flaming ginger hair, but another cause was sadism," Harry wrote. "Tabloid readers were delighted by the idea that the younger child of Prince Charles wasn't the child of Prince Charles. They couldn't get enough of this 'joke,' for some reason. Maybe it made them feel better about their lives that a young prince's life was laughable.
And, as he noted in his witness statement, the timeline didn't even add up. "Never mind that my mother didn't meet Major Hewitt until long after I was born," he wrote, "the story was simply too good to drop."Harry's June 6 comments about the press come just one month after he received an apology from Mirror Group Newspapers for a single instance of unlawfully gathering information.
"MGN unreservedly apologises for all such instances of UIG," the May 10 statement read, "and assures the claimants that such conduct will never be repeated." At the time, the publisher noted that this violation, which is not part of Harry's lawsuit against MGN, "warrants compensation."
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