Prince Harry Says King Charles III Joked About Not Being His ‘Real Father’: It Was ‘Remarkably Unfunny’
usmagazine.comIn his upcoming Spare memoir, Prince Harry revealed that King Charles III would joke about how they weren’t actually father and son.“Pa liked telling stories, and this was one of the best in his repertoire.
He’d always end with a burst of philosophizing: If this mental patient could be so thoroughly convinced of his identity, no less than Pa, it raised some very Big Questions indeed,” the Duke of Sussex, 38, wrote in an excerpt. “Who could say which of us was sane?
Who could be sure they weren’t the mental patient, hopelessly deluded, humored by friends and family? Who knows if I’m really the Prince of Wales?
Who knows if I’m even your real father? Maybe your real father is in Broadmoor, darling boy!”Harry recalled not getting the humor behind his father’s joke at the time.“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 added. “One cause of this rumor was Major Hewitt’s flaming ginger hair, but another cause was sadism.
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