Prince Harry Slams ‘Damaging’ Rumors James Hewitt Is His Real Father During U.K. Court Testimony: ‘Mean and Cruel’

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Doing damage. Prince Harry called out the persistent rumors about Princess Diana‘s former flame James Hewitt being his real father during a recent court testimony.The 38-year-old prince is suing Mirror Group Newspaper Limited for allegedly obtaining information about him via unethical practices — including phone hacking — through the years.

In a written statement released on Tuesday, June 6, Harry addressed the ways in which being in the spotlight has impacted his mental health.The U.K.

native referred to a 2002 article titled “Plot to rob the DNA of Harry,” which perpetuated the widespread speculation that King Charles III was not truly his dad. “At the time, when I was 18 years old and had lost my mother just six years earlier, stories such as this felt very damaging and very real to me,” he wrote. “They were hurtful, mean and cruel.”Harry continued: “I was always left questioning the motives behind the stories.

Were the newspapers keen to put doubt into the minds of the public so that I might be ousted from the Royal Family?”The Duke of Sussex went on to allege that the author behind the article in question wasn’t above using “unlawful information gathering techniques” to further a story.In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies“At the time of this article and others similar to it, I wasn’t actually aware that my mother hadn’t met Major Hewitt until after I was born,” he claimed. “The timeline is something I only learnt of in around 2014, although I now understand this was common knowledge amongst the Defendants’ journalists.”As London’s High Court hears the case, the newspaper’s publisher has denied any wrongdoing.