Princess Diana’s lover James Hewitt denies he is Prince Harry’s father
PRINCESS Diana’s intimate love letters to James Hewitt are being offered for sale in the US in what is being called his “final insult” to her memory. A US auction house has lined up a wealthy collector to buy the 64 notes with a price tag of up to $1million — raising fears they could be made public.
Ingrid Seward, author of royal book My Mother and I, said: “James Hewitt has betrayed Diana in so many ways so this is just the final insult.“Diana was a prolific letter writer but none of this intimate nature.GARY-ING ONExperts at the firm valued the trove — which include many sent on distinctive military paper known as “Blueys” — at between $400,000 and $600,000 . In an email, the company stated: “We believe that open market auction would almost certainly be the best way to achieve the best price.”However, Bonhams declined to sell them and advised seeking a buyer in the US. An expert at the firm wrote: “We would recommend sale in the US because there do seem to be more potential buyers at this level there, and because the sale is likely to be less contentious than in the UK.”They declined to estimate what they may be worth.A spokesman for Hewitt told The Sun on Sunday: “Heritage Auctions were approached on behalf of a representative of James Hewitt solely to value and authenticate the letters for personal reasons and insurance purposes.But an email sent in late January by a Heritage chief states: “After much discussion, it was decided that the best way forward to proceed was to work with a likely potential buyer they already have in mind for a private sale. “They feel this would remove the letters from appearing at public auction for a long time and remove us from any negative fall-out.”The letters were written between 1989 and 1991, including the period Hewitt was serving in the Gulf War When The Sun on Sunday approached Heritage Auctions’ executive vice-president Joe Maddalena, at their Dallas HQ, he said: “We can’t comment, I can’t comment.at a party hosted by her lady-in-waiting, Hazel West, in 1986, confirmed the relationship in her 1995 BBC interview withPrince Charles Two years later, in a deal with the Spencer family’s lawyers, Hewitt promised to store the letters in a safe place, to never be sold and to be destroyed when he died.The princess, who first met Hewitt at a party in 1986, confirmed the relationship in her 1995 BBC interview with Martin BashirAt that time they were reluctantly returned to him by the Royal Family, under threat of legal action, after they were handed over to police by a national newspaper which received them from another of his exes. In 2000, Hewitt was involved in a newspaper sting where it was revealed he had suggested selling the mementos for £10million. Three years later, he admitted live on CNN that he wanted to sell the 64 letters that the couple had exchanged for the right price. He told talk show host Larry King that they were “important historical documents” and it might be “irresponsible” not to sell them.It was reported around this time, that senior royals and Diana’s estate executors had considered exploring ways to acquire the letters.The written words are the copyright of Diana’s estate, managed by her sisters and other family members. However, legal experts have said that copyright would not be breached if they were displayed in a museum or exhibition, for example, rather than published.He is now living under his widowed mother’s roof, sharing her two-bed flat in an old, converted mansion in the
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