James Hewitt

James Hewitt Lifford ( born April 30, 1958 in Derry ) is a former British military officer and former lover Diana Spencer, the former Princess of Wales.

Life

Hewitt is the son of a Royal Navy officer. He attended Millfield Public School in Somerset. His military training was Hewitt, among others, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He served in the Household Cavalry regiment of the British Army and the Second Gulf War, in which he commanded 14 Challenger tanks in Operation Desert Storm. His military service ended after 17 years in the rank of captain, after he had twice tried in vain to be Major, the conditions that was not fulfilled. Later he ran a golf driving range in Marbella. In the semi-documentary film drama Bloody Sunday director Paul Greengrass 2002 he played the Colonel Tugwell. He has also performed in a number of television programs and shows. In the U.S. television drama Diana - a life for love ( original title Princess in Love, 1996) by David Greene Hewitt was represented by Christopher Villiers.

Affair with the Princess of Wales

Hewitt was several years Beloved Diana Spencer, the Princess of Wales. The former wife of the British heir to the throne, Prince Charles, he met in 1986 at a party in London know. They first signed him as a riding instructor for himself, and later for her sons William and Harry. The affair ended in 1992. The relationship was made public by the journalist Andrew Morton in the same year. The journalist Anna Pasternak published in 1994 the book Princess in Love, which was based on information provided by Hewitt. At the date of publication 75,000 copies were sold. The Princess of Wales was confirmed in November 1995 in a BBC interview with Martin Bashir, the relationship with Hewitt. She said, " Yes, I adored him. Yes, I was in love with him. But I was very let down " ( German: ". .. . Yeah, I idolized him Yes, I was in love with him, but I have been very disappointed " ) Hewitt in 1999 published his autobiography, Love and War, in which he, among other claimed that the Princess of Wales had admitted him an earlier affair with her bodyguard Barry Mannakee. In July 2003, the British commercial station Channel 4 beamed a one-hour documentary about Hewitt out titled Confessions of a Rogue, in the including his unsuccessful attempts were represented, addressed to him letters from the Princess of Wales to sell.

Publications

• Love and War Blake Publishing, Ltd.. , London 1999 ISBN 978-1-85782-318-9

Filmography

• 2002: Bloody Sunday ( Colonel Tugwell )