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Nearly two decades ago, millions of people around the world watched Princess Diana‘s raw, tell-all Panorama interview.

Diana’s sit-down with journalist Martin Bashir took place inside Kensington Palace in 1995, one year after she and then-Prince Charles separated. The princess was candid about her struggles as a member of the royal family, her marital troubles with her husband, and the affairs that she engaged in during her marriage.

The princess’s decision to speak so openly about her life stunned fans, members of the royal household, and the man she admitted to having a relationship with while she was married to the future king. Here’s what that man, James Hewitt, has to say today about that and being labeled as “the world’s most-hated man.”

Princess Diana’s ex lashed out at the BBC journalist who conducted the interview Princess Diana speaking during her ‘Panorama’ interview with...

Princess Diana’s November 1995 Kensington Palace. The bombshell interview shocked the world as Diana spoke about the most intimate details of her life.

Diana Was Candid About Her Experiences With The Royal Family

The Princess of Wales made history by confirming that Prince Charles was having a tryst with Camilla Parker Bowles. “There were three of us in the marriage, so it was a bit crowded,” she admitted. It was the final nail in the coffin of Diana and Charles’s messy marriage.

In the interview, Diana was candid about her experiences with the royal family and the lack of support she received. She talked about her postpartum depression and how she tried to harm herself.

She revealed her struggles with bulimia. In secret tapes recorded for Andrew Morton, which became the book, “Diana: Her True Story,” she spoke of when her eating disorder started. Apparently, Prince Charles told her...

King Charles III upset Princess Diana’s mother at Prince Harry’s christening. How? By remarking on his own disappointment at becoming a father to another son. Ahead, what Diana recalled her husband saying at the Duke of Sussex’s christening. Plus, how her mom “snapped” the king’s “head off” for the remark.

King Charles said they were ‘disappointed’ to get Harry instead of a baby girl

Diana and King Charles became parents for the second time on Sept. 15, 1984. They welcomed Harry, formally known as Henry Charles Albert David Mountbatten-Windsor, at London, England’s St. Mary’s Hospital.

Like Prince William before him, Harry made his debut on the steps of the Lindo Wing in the arms of his parents. His christening took place on Dec. 21, 1984, at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.

(Sound familiar? St. George’s Chapel is the setting of many royal family events, including Harry’s 2019 wedding to Meghan Markle.

During her bombshell Panorama interview back in 1995, Princess Diana spoke about her husband’s infidelity with his then-mistress Camilla Parker Bowles. The princess also admitted that she too had an extramarital affair with a man named James Hewitt.

Now, there are reports that Hewitt could sell private letters the late princess wrote him, sparking fears that they could then be made public in a crushing blow to her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry.

Princess Diana’s private letters to James Hewitt could be sold for $1 million

Princess Diana and the former Cavalry officer carried on their affair for five years from 1986 to 1991. Diana confessed that she “was in love” with Hewitt “but was very let down.” He and the princess split after he was deployed to serve in the Gulf War.

Left: Prince Diana | Wpa/Pool/Getty Images, Right: James Hewitt | Steve Finn/Getty Images

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Princess Diana‘s interview with Panorama is one of the most famous and infamous interviews ever given by a member of Britain’s royal family. It took place in 1995 inside Kensington Palace where the princess lived following her separation from then-Prince Charles.

The interview was watched by an estimated 23 million people, which was nearly half of the United Kingdom’s population at the time. It was explosive for viewers to hear Diana talk about her troubled marriage to the future king. But it’s now being reported that the late princess‘s words came from someone else as she was told how to respond and what to say about certain subjects.

Princess Diana at The Umeda Akebono School in Tokyo | Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images TV crew members say Princess Diana was coached and told what to say during interview

Princess Diana’s Panorama interview was conducted...

It’s safe to say viewers did not see ghosts coming.

It was an open question how “The Crown” was going to depict Diana’s death, perhaps the most infamous moment in modern British history. The answer? It went with straightforward melodrama, with just a hint of energies from the beyond.

Season 6 of the Netflix drama begins, literally, with the crash as a random man watches a car careen into the Paris tunnel while walking his dog. The show then flashes back eight weeks earlier, and it feels like we are on a slow march to doom until we get to Diana’s (Elizabeth Debicki) death at the end of Episode 3.

“The Crown” shows final goodbye calls between Diana and the boys, and leans heavily into the idea that Dodi and Diana were near engagement, with Dodi proposing in a Paris hotel room with a ginormous ring, and Diana turning...

Royal family followers know all about Prince Harry and his relationship with his father, King Charles III. Prince Harry and King Charles have had their differences through the years, but Harry respects his father greatly, as they appear to have a civil relationship. Unfortunately, rumors swirled that suggested King Charles wasn’t Prince Harry’s birth father. Here’s what Harry had to say about this.

What does Prince Harry think about the rumors that King Charles III isn’t his father?

Is King Charles III Prince Harry’s birth father? Past rumors suggested Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, became pregnant with Harry thanks to her lover, James Hewitt. Diana and Hewitt reportedly had a romance in 1987.

So, what does Harry think of the rumors? He touched on them in his memoir, Spare.

“Pa liked telling stories, and this was one of the best in his repertoire,” Harry wrote, according to E! News.

Prince Harry blames the tabloids for at least one of his breakups.

On Tuesday, the royal filed a written testimony to the High Court in London in his case against Mirror Group Newspapers, claiming that they caused his split from ex Chelsy Davy.

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“I trusted Chelsy with the most private of information,” he said in the testimony, according to The New York Times.

He went on to claim that “the prying eyes of the tabloids,” strained their relationship and was “the main factor” in their eventual breakup.

“We could also never understand how private elements of our life together were finding their way into the tabloids, and so our circle of friends became smaller and smaller,” Harry added. “I remember finding it very hard to trust anyone, which led to bouts of depression and paranoia.

Prince Harry has hit out at rumours suggesting King Charles is not his father.

It’s been reported in the tabloids for years that Princess Diana’s former lover, James Hewitt, was Harry’s dad.

However, as he made an appearance at London’s High Court on Tuesday amid his ongoing phone hacking lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mirror, he blasted the rumours in his accompanying witness statement.

Referencing a 2002 article from The People with the headline “Plot to rob the DNA of Harry” — talking about an alleged plan to steal a sample of Harry’s DNA to check his who his dad was — Harry said of the rumours: “They were hurtful, mean and cruel. I was always left questioning the motives behind the stories,” according to the Evening Standard.

The Duke added, “Were the newspapers keen to put doubt into the minds of the public so I...

London’s High Court saw Prince Harry take the stand on Tuesday, June 6 to testify against The Mirror, The Sunday Mirror and The Sunday People, three arms of the British tabloid press the royal is currently suing. During his testimony, the Duke of Sussex maintained his stance against the three papers, claiming: “Some editors and journalists do have blood on their hands.”

Prince Harry has accused the Mirror newspaper group of hacking his cellphone more than a decade ago, leading to targeted tabloid press against himself and later against his wife Meghan Markle.

The royal family sent out an invitation for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to attend King Charles III‘s coronation on May 6, the same day as their son Archie’s fourth birthday.

This act has left supporters of the Duke and Duchess wondering if the invitation was purely a pleasantry, or if the date was chosen to cause conflict.

“I can confirm The Duke has recently received an email correspondence from His Majesty’s office regarding the coronation,” a spokesperson for the pair said. “An immediate decision on whether The Duke and Duchess will attend will not be disclosed by us at this time.”

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Prince Harry has claimed in his new book that his father King Charles III made a “sadistic” joke about his paternity.

The Duke of Sussex opens up about the incident and his father’s passion for telling “stories” in his new memoir Spare.

Harry said that his father, who became “philosophical” towards the end of his stories, acknowledged that no one could be sure they weren’t “living in a fantasy” before joking about the possibility he wasn’t Harry’s “real father.”

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Harry, 38, didn’t take the joke well as he grew up amid rumors that his actual father was Princess Diana‘s former lover Major James Hewitt.

Hewitt famously had an affair with Princess Diana after he became her horse-riding instructor. According to Hewitt’s book Princess in Love, the affair lasted from 1986 to 1991 and occurred when Diana was still married to Charles.

Prince Harry says his relationship with his father isn’t perfect.

In an excerpt from the royal’s leaked memoir, he alleged that King Charles III used to joke about who really fathered him with his mother Princess Diana.

“Pa liked telling stories, and this was one of the best in his repertoire. He’d always end with a burst of philosophizing … Who knows if I’m really the Prince of Wales? Who knows if I’m even your real father?” he recalled, via Page Six.

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“He’d laugh and laugh, though it was a remarkably unfunny joke, given the rumor circulating just then that my actual father was one of Mummy’s former lovers: Major James Hewitt,” he continued. “One cause of this rumour was Major Hewitt’s flaming ginger hair, but another cause was sadism.

With the release of the Sussexes' tell-all docuseries, "Harry & Meghan," on Netflix, the royals and their complex love lives are front of mind for people all over the world, including the love life of Prince Harry's parents, King Charles III and Princess Diana.

When Charles and Diana famously decided to end their marriage, the word was that the split was amicable, but at the time in 1992, no other official reasons were given. Though it took until 1996 for the couple to formally divorce, rumors and speculation about infidelity from both parties emerged much sooner than that.

It was a well-known "secret" that during their marriage, Charles was having an affair with Queen Consort Camilla Parker Bowles, whom he dated before marrying Diana and would ultimately marry years later. Diana eventually admitted in 1995 - after she and Charles had separated - that she, too, had been having an affair. Diana had...

Diana the Musical, the much-mocked telling of the life story of Diana, Princess of Wales, has swept the board at this year’s Razzie Awards.

Complete winners list below.

The stage show, of which a filmed version was shown on Netflix, won five awards at this year’s Golden Raspberries, including worst picture, worst actress for Jeanna de Waal in the title role, worst director, worst supporting actress and worst screenplay. It had been nominated in nine categories altogether.

Netlix streamed a filmed version of the stage show before it debuted on Broadway, without a live audience due to theaters being closed at a time of coronavirus restrictions. When the theatrical show eventually opened, it lasted for only 33 performances on Broadway before the curtain fell for the final time.

The Razzies also saw basketball star LeBron James winning worst actor for Space Jam: A New Legacy as well as sharing...

Results for the 42nd Razzie Awards are in — and if you had anything to do with “Diana: The Musical,” you might want to go back to bed.

The big, fat Broadway bomb about the Princess of Wales beamed into your living room courtesy of Netflix was this year’s big Razzie “winner,” taking home five of what the group calls its “un-coveted … tacky, gold-spray-painted statuettes.”

The streaming version of the stage musical bagged Worst Picture, Worst Actress (Jeanna de Waal), Worst Supporting Actress, Worst Director (Christopher Ashley) and Worst Screenplay. The group pointed out how richly the “Diana” script deserved the honor for “featuring some of the year’s most ridiculed dialogue and lyrics — Including rhyming ‘Camilla’ with both ‘Manila’ and ‘Godzilla.'”

Faring almost as miserably was “Space Jam: A New Legacy,” with slam dunks for Worst Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel; Worst Actor (LeBron James); and Worst Screen Couple...

In a year where the Kristen Stewart-led Spencer earned its share of awards buzz comes word that another project about the late Princess Diana is the leading candidate for the anti-Oscars. Diana, the Musical, the filmed version of the ill-fated Broadway show, took a final bow with nine nominations for the 42nd annual Razzie Awards revealed today.

The show “scored” nine noms for the 2022 Golden Raspberries spanning nearly all of the categories, including Worst Picture, Actress, Actor, Director and Screenplay. The Woman in the Window and Karen are a distant second with five apiece, followed by Space Jam: A New Legacy with four and Infinite and The Misfits with three each.

The “winners” will be “honored” on March 26, the day before the Academy Awards. Watch the nominations video above.

Here is how the Razzies handicapped its own Worst Picture race: “This year’s Worst Picture nominees include: The NetFLIX...

The Razzie Awards nominations recognizing the worst “crap streaming, beaming and steaming from our various screens and devices” of 2021 — as the group put it — have been announced, with LeBron James, “Diana: The Musical,” Amy Adams and Bruce Willis topping the heap.

“Here’s a look at what we saw,” the organization said in a press release. “The excruciating musicals, thrill-free thriller rip-offs, a nearly 2 hour product placement flick, and more Bruce Willis than any starving viewer could stomach. In other words, 2021 did not fail the Razzies!”

With Oscar nominations coming out on Tuesday morning, the Academy Award’s snarky counterpart, the Golden Raspberry Awards (aka the Razzies) followed suit as they do every year at this time acknowledging the superior work – or, actually, the inferior work – coming out of the entertainment industry.

Leading the field with nine nods is Netflix’s “Diana: The Musical.” Released in October, The Razzies called...

Diana, The Musical begins its Act II with the shirtless, well-toned actor portraying the princess’ studly consort James Hewitt doing his best Urban Cowboy riding-the-bull impression, much to the dirty-dancing delight of the smitten royal.

Finally, you think, Diana has fully embraced itself, director Christopher Ashley has rediscovered the campy aesthetic that served him so well from Jeffrey to The Rocky Horror Show and hope may not be entirely lost. But then the pink-bedecked romance novelist Barbara Cartland (don’t ask) stops the action to announce that she just made up that steamy bit, and the ripped stable boy covers up his abs and Diana sinks back to its high-decibel mediocrity.

By now you’ve probably read, heard or seen for yourself, via Netflix, just how deliciously bad Diana is, but the truth isn’t quite so much fun. Diana, opening tonight on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre, is not a so-bad-it’s-good disaster.

Netflix has released the first look of Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana and Dominic West as Prince Charles in “The Crown.”

Season 5, which started production in the U.K. last month, features Debicki as the princess through the early 1990s and West as her estranged husband.

Debicki takes over from Emma Corrin, who played Diana in season 4 when she met and married a young Prince Charles (Josh O’Connor) and dealt with the stress of worldwide fame. Diana struggled with an eating disorder and had an affair of her own with James Hewitt (Daniel Donskoy) after learning of Charles’ extra-marital romance with Camilla Parker Bowles (Emerald Fennel).

Debicki’s recent credits include Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet.” She is also known for her roles as Ayesha in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” and Alice in “Widows.”

West, who takes over from O’Connor, recently appeared alongside Lily James in mini-series “The Pursuit of Love.

The momentous life and tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales, seems to never grow old for Hollywood. From “The Crown” to the upcoming film “Spencer,” three actresses are currently lined up to play the People’s Princess — and several more have tried their hand at playing her in the past. From Kristen Stewart to Emma Corrin, here are nine ladies who have — or will — play Lady Di.

Emma Corrin – “The Crown”

Corrin has been cast as Lady Diana Spencer in Season 4 of Netflix’s royal drama and has already been spotted dressed in the princess’ famous pink polka dot dress and matching hat. The new season will premiere in November.

Elizabeth Debicki – “The Crown”

For Seasons 5 and 6, Debicki will step in as an older version of the famed Princess of Wales and former wife of Prince Charles before she died tragically in a 1997 car crash.

Kristen Stewart – “Spencer”

Stewart...

The Crown‘s Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher both find themselves betrayed by those closest to them as the Netflix royal drama wraps up Season 4 — are their reigns over already?

The finale begins with Thatcher’s conservative allies openly revolting against her in Parliament, with Sir Geoffrey Howe resigning and condemning her “finger-wagging” on the way out. She meets with Elizabeth and only wants to talk about the brewing crisis in the Gulf, but Elizabeth brings up Howe’s resignation and asks if she expects a leadership challenge. Thatcher dismisses it as just “petty rivalries and resentments,” but she narrowly survives a vote,...

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Netflix's The Crown season four, which premieres on Nov. 15, finally showcases Prince Charles and Princess Diana's whirlwind romance, but one of the biggest moments of their relationship isn't actually shown on screen. While the season features glimpses of their courtship, engagement, and first royal tour together, it doesn't re-create their royal wedding in 1981. Instead, it focuses on the events leading up to the big day. In fact, the small glimpse you see of Princess Diana in her wedding dress in the trailer is about all you get.

In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Emma Corrin and Josh O'Connor, who play Diana and Charles on the series, gave a little backstory on why the famous wedding wasn't included. "We never recreate things just for the sake of recreating them. I think if we do recreate a scene - like the engagement scene, for instance, when...

Princess Diana was many things to many people, but above all else, she was an adoring and doting mother of two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry. While much is known about Diana's special connection with her boys, there's one thing people may not know about Harry's birth in particular: Prince Charles "desperately" wanted a little girl, and Diana, knowing that she was carrying a baby boy, kept the secret from her husband throughout her entire pregnancy.

About a year after Prince William was born in June 1982, Diana was under pressure to produce a spare to the heir. In September 1983, Buckingham Palace announced that Diana was pregnant for a second time, but sadly, she suffered a miscarriage later that week while at the Balmoral estate in Scotland. Cut to early 1984, when Charles and Diana found out that they were expecting again. During her difficult pregnancy, Diana told friends, "I don't...

Based on the hype that appears to surround Hellboy: The Board Game, I’d be surprised if there was anyone left who is interested in the game but hasn’t already purchased it. When games like this come to retail, stripped of their Kickstarter exclusives and multiple expansions, they are sometimes revealed as little more than attractive shelf ware. However where Hellboy: The Board Game is concerned, that is most definitely not the case. This attractive and exciting game is designed by Games Workshop veteran James Hewitt and debutant Sophie Williams. Between them, the pair have produced a game that is fast paced and modern, albeit backed by relatively classical dice rolling and movement. Mantic Games always exceptional production values ice the cake.

Hellboy: The Board Game is a one to four player game that stays close to the well-trodden path beaten by previous Mantic Games offerings – and nearly every...

Who is Prince Harry's father? That's what many fans are asking themselves ahead of the royal wedding. There have been rumors going around that Prince Charles isn't Prince Harry's real dad, so many fans are wondering if Harry and James Hewitt are actually father and son since they look alike. Scroll down to find out! Is Prince Harry Charles' son? Princess Diana's ex-lover recently confirmed that Charles is Prince Harry's biological father. In a previous interview with Australia's Sunday Night, Hewitt was asked, "Are you Harry’s father?" from the show's host. "No, I’m not," the 60-year-old candidly admitted. He was then asked why he thought the truth of Harry’s paternity has been in constant doubt over the years. "It sells papers. It’s worse for [Harry], probably, poor chap," Hewitt shared. (Photo Credit: Getty Images) James and Diana previously met in 1986, two years after Harry was...

Who is Prince Harry's father? That's what many fans are asking themselves ahead of the royal wedding. There have been rumors going around that Prince Charles isn't Prince Harry's real dad, so many fans are wondering if Harry and James Hewitt are actually father and son since they look alike. Scroll down to find out! Is Prince Harry Charles' son? Princess Diana's ex-lover recently confirmed that Charles is Prince Harry's biological father. In a previous interview with Australia's Sunday Night, James was asked, "Are you Harry’s father?" from the show's host. "No, I’m not," the 60-year-old candidly admitted. He was then asked why he thought the truth of Harry’s paternity has been in constant doubt over the years. "It sells papers. It’s worse for [Harry], probably, poor chap," James shared. James in 2004. (Photo Credit: Getty Images) James and Diana previously met in 1986, two years after...

Is this a joke? You really never know with the royal family! In case you were wondering, Prince Harry's real name isn't actually Harry. While we all call the red-headed royal by the popular moniker, it turns out his birth name is actually Henry Charles Albert David. That's right, he has three middle names. His full royal title is His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales. But, Prince Henry is so cute, so why do we call him Harry? Since his childhood, he's been called Harry because it's a common nickname for Henry in the royal family. His late mother, Princess Diana, also used to call her boy, "My Little Spencer," to show that his red hair came from her side of the family. Harry also sometimes uses absurd nicknames so he will go unnoticed. He often goes by "Spike Wells," just to name one. When he was in the military,...

Remember the first ever Love Island with its seemingly clueless single celebrities constantly bickering on a tumultuous and stormy (literally and metaphorically) Fijian island?

Even the show's co-hosts Kelly Brook and Patrick Kielty were baying for one another's blood when Kielty decided to declare during one live show that Brook had previously dated contestant Paul Danan.

Other memorable highlights included Abi Titmuss becoming more and more enraged as Fran Cosgrave repeatedly referred to her as Vanessa Feltz, swiftly followed by a tipsy and uncouth Rebecca Loos letting rip.

The series aired almost exactly a decade ago, so we found ourselves wondering - whatever happened to eventual winner Jayne Middlemiss? And the Love Island love god that was Lee Sharpe?

As the new non-celebrity series currently enjoys its ITV2 revival, we find out what the 12 star contestants have gone on to do since their 2005 stint below:

Jayne Middlemiss

Love Island winner...

Fancy watching some poor punter getting a back, sack and crack from Rustie Lee? Want a waxing from Helen Flanagan? Is Arg from Towie delivering pedicures what you've been waiting for all these years? Well, wait no more people. Celebrity Super Spa has arrived.

I've already had the joy of watching episode one of Super Spa. I've seen the awkward and cringeworthy hosts. I've seen Helen Flanagan prancing around without any trousers on. I've seen Rustie Lee cackling. 867 times.

And I'll probably watch it all over again tonight (September 13) when it airs on Channel 5. Firstly, because I'm a glutton for terrible television. Secondly, because I'm fairly convinced it may be the most desperate celebrity reality show ever concieved. Even by Channel 5's late night standards, this is awful. It makes The Bachelor look like The Sopranos.

So where does the show fit in the history of degrading and embarrassing celebrity reality shows?...

“At the end of the day I probably let myself down, I let my family down, I let other people down,” Prince Harry sighed during a recent interview about his nude Las Vegas photos taken last August. To which we say…do you even know your family, Harry? Maybe things were different when Queen Elizabeth II was a girl, but if the last couple decades have taught us anything, it’s that you could barely be considered a British royal without at least one scandal in your back pocket. So don’t worry, Harry! You’re just joining other infamous royal scandals such as…

1) Kate Middleton’s bottomless nudes

Can Harry really feel too bad about everyone seen his nakedness when his new sister-in-law inadvertently showed the world hers while honeymooning in France last September? Kate Middleton obviously had no intention of anyone seeing her sans pants or sans bra,...

HollywoodNews.com: – Production Designer John Shaffner has been elected to a three-year term as Chair of the Art Directors Council, effective immediately, replacing Thomas A. Walsh, who continues in the position of President of the overall Art Directors Guild (Adg, Iatse Local 800).

Shaffner was formerly Vice-Chair of the Council, a position now filled by Corey Kaplan. Also elected to the Art Directors Council was Jack Fisk. The Adg has four craft councils: Art Directors; Scenic, Title & Graphic Artists; Set Designers & Model Makers, and Illustrators & Matte Artists.

Shaffner has just completed four years as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He presently works as Production Designer on Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory and Mike & Molly.

Fisk was nominated for an Oscar® and a BAFTA Award for his work as Production Designer on There Will be Blood. He was Production Designer on...

Actor is first celebrity to settle claim since tabloid admitted hacking several public figures' voicemail messages

Sienna Miller has accepted £100,000 compensation from the News of the World after it accepted unconditional liability for her phone-hacking claims.

The unexpected agreement came midway through a high court battle with the paper. The actor is the first celebrity to settle a claim since the tabloid, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers (Ngn), last month admitted hacking the phones of several public figures. The settlement is the highest privacy award to date; Ngn will also pay Miller's legal costs.

Michael Silverleaf QC, Ngn's barrister, had previously claimed Miller's case could result in £400,000 in damages. He told the court this would be a "ludicrous" sum.

Separately, it emerged that James Hewitt, the man who became famous for his affair with Princess Diana, is poised to sue for invasion of privacy. He will issue...

Former deputy prime minister John Prescott in London, January 2011. Carl De Souza/Afp/Getty Images. Sarah Ellison, whose in-depth account of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal appears in the June 2011 issue of Vanity Fair, reports on the latest developments in the case. As celebrities continue to line up to sue the News of the World newspaper for hacking into their voice mails (for the latest, see Jude Law and James Hewitt, the former military officer known for his affair with Princess Diana), lawyers for Britain’s Scotland Yard appeared in London’s Royal Courts of Justice on May 12 to defend its record of doing very little to get to the bottom of the phone-hacking scandal in Britain. Exhibiting their skill for understatement, lawyers for Scotland Yard admitted there had been “some operational shortcomings” in the Yard’s investigation. But the hearing also revealed a new piece of the complex puzzle of this case.

Princess Diana's former lover James Hewitt has claimed that she would have been "very proud" of Prince William's choice to marry fiancée Kate Middleton. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, the British cavalry officer, with whom Diana admitted to carrying on an affair during a 1995 interview, claimed that the Princess would have happily stood at her son's side for the happy occasion. "She was very proud, and quite rightly so, of her boys [William and Harry]," Hewitt insisted. "They've done her proud." He continued: "[Diana] would be very proud and bubbly and jumping about on Friday and she (more)...

Like a bad penny, he's back: James Hewitt, Princess Di.s former lover, fled England and the paparazzi five years ago. His only connection to the Royal family will be to watch the upcoming Royal Wedding from his restaurant in Spain. However, in a candid interview this weekend with Inside Edition, Hewitt reveals for the first time how low his life had become in England. Inside Edition sent us an excerpt: .Well, strange enough, I got in my car and loaded a few things up to get on the ferry to go to France -- to shoot myself. And then my mother insisted on coming with me. And, had she hadn.t. I would have probably have shot myself. So...

Emmerdale actor James Sutton has described Celebrity Big Brother as a ‘freak show’.

Sutton, who plays Ryan Lamb in the ITV soap, said that shows like Big Brother have made ‘Celebrity’ a dirty word.

In an interview with Now magazine James was asked if he would ever appear on the Channel 4 show. He replied: “No, I find the concept embarrassing. ‘Celebrity’ is kind of almost a dirty word now – it just makes me think of Kerry Katona and Jordan.”

“I did enjoy Big Brother,” he continued. “But as time went on it became a bit of a freak show.”

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Britain's Princess Diana's former lover James Hewitt doesn't feel English. The 51-year-old former British household cavalry officer moved to Spain earlier this year, and says he now thinks of himself as European. He told Britain's Daily Mail newspaper: "I don't even class myself as English any more. I have nothing to do with them - and they don't want me either. "I lived there for nearly 50 years and fought for Queen and country for 17 years - but I consider myself to be more European now." James was criticised after he revealed he had embarked on a five-year relationship with the late Princess of Wales - who died in a 1997 Paris car crash - while she was married...

Princess Diana's former lover James Hewitt has spoken about rumours he is the father of Britain's Prince Harry. The 51-year-old retired household cavalry officer - who had a much-publicised affair with the Princess of Wales in the 90s - made a cryptic comment about persistent speculation he is the biological parent of the 24-year-old royal. Asked if he found it odd that people still say the red-headed royal looks like him, Hewitt said: "I can answer most things. But when it's so close to you and it's also so far from you? so I don't know how much there is in that." "It's easy for a girl, because you definitely know if you have a child or not, but for...

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At Prince Charles' 60th birthday celebration last night Harry Windsor, everyone's third favourite prince, revealed that he is not ginger. Do my eyes deceive me or have I been colour blind all these years? He announced to a shocked crowd that he is not ginger but in fact auburn. The prince obviously was never very good at understanding colours - he was caught cheating on his A-Level Art coursework and still only managed to get a C.

Calling yourself auburn is the ultimate get out clause for those ashamed of their colouring - that and strawberry blond. Both are nice euphemisms but it doesn't get over the fact that he is ginger.

I think people should get over ginger-baiting. The royal son's hair colour is a proud indication of his Celtic roots. Being a red head is unusual and makes people stand out from the crowd.

The British Royal Family has uncovered a plot to try and steal some of Prince Harry's DNA. The plan was aimed at discovering the truth behind the rumors surrounding the teenage prince's parentage. Some claim he is not really the son of Prince Charles, but in fact the product of Princess Diana's five-year-long affair with James Hewitt. A royal insider says of the plot, "It involved a security firm using a pretty girl to get close enough to Harry to pluck out one of his hairs. It would be sold abroad where it would be analyzed. The object was to prove this ridiculous rumor."...