Diana, Princess of Wales’s former lover James Hewitt has said the princess would have been “concerned” about the bitter rift between the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex and done her best to try to reconcile her sons.
Maj Hewitt criticised journalist Martin Bashir, who faked bank statements and showed them to the princess’s brother Earl Spencer to gain access to Diana for the interview, with an inquiry showing the BBC covered up his deceit.
The ex-cavalry officer helped teach William and Harry to ride and began an affair with Diana in 1986, with the princess publicly confessing to the relationship during her controversial BBC Panorama interview in 1995.
The former army officer, who had a five-year affair with the princess while she was still married to the then-Prince of Wales, told ITV’s Good Morning Britain that Diana would have been “worried” about the ongoing estrangement.
Maj Hewitt also told GMB that Diana, who had bulimia and made suicide attempts, would have been treated differently today, thanks to changes in approaches to dealing with mental health.
