Why William refused to take Diana's calls
After realizing that it was time to give up trying to arrange her marriage to Charles, Diana found love and comfort in the embrace of another.
Since Princess Diana was killed in August 1997, Princes William and Harry, her sons, are doing their best not to let the world forget what kind of woman the former Princess of Wales was. Gentle, caring, dedicated to humanitarian work, a woman who put her children first and foremost.
However, not everything was always idyllic in their relationship, and allegedly Prince William was so angry with his mother during those turbulent 1990s that he did not want to talk to her or even answer her phone.
The reason - her interview for the BBC's "Panorama" two years earlier, in November 1995. Diana then talked about her difficult position in the British royal family and the adultery of her husband Prince Charles with Camille Parker, about the belittling and pain she suffered from the first day of marriage, but also about something else: her affair.
After realizing that it was time to give up trying to arrange her marriage to Charles, Diana found love and comfort in the embrace of another. She had several lovers, but one raised the biggest storm - Major James Hewitt. Their relationship was so intense, turbulent, and obvious to everyone that to this day many doubt that the red-haired officer is the real father of Prince Harry, which he rejects as a possibility.
Major Hewitt was an officer of the Royal Cavalry, and one of his duties was to teach riding lessons to the Princess of Wales. As the royal biographer Andrew Morton once wrote, Hewitt was "a man of great charm who gave Diana fun and compassionate company at a time when she needed support because her husband neglected her." As Hewitt recounted years later, Diana herself asked him to be her riding instructor. According to Ana Pasternak, the author of the book "Princess in Love", he often came to Kensington Palace, and the first night he slept with the princess, he was scared.
She also revealed that Hewitt was a fan of Prince Charles and played polo with him, and Diana's husband was not overly burdened by their adulterous relationship. Since they saw each other during the eighties, and especially because of the obvious physical similarity between James Hewitt and Diana's younger son Harry, rumors have been circulating for decades that Prince Charles is not the father of the young prince but that he carries the genes of a red-haired Royal Cavalry officer. However, does not support these rumors. "I am not," he said when asked if he was Harry's father, adding that Harry was born when the princess and he got in touch.
As for Harry's red hair, it is supposedly the legacy of the Spencers, Diana's family, and Lady Dee was very happy when she saw that she gave birth to a red-haired boy.
In the period from 1989 to 1991, Diana sent love letters to her lover, and that includes the time Hewitt spent in the Gulf War. According to the British media, in 1992 she stopped answering his phone and that was the definitive end of their relationship.
In a famous interview with the BBC given to Diana in 1995, the princess confirmed that she was in love with Major - then Captain - Hewitt. It was the sentence "Yes, I adored him. Yes, I loved him" that Princess Diana's older son couldn't get over. This interview had a huge impact on the life and image of the royal family, but it was not as difficult for anyone as, then, thirteen-year-old Prince William.
Although she was a caring mother, many commented at the time that she obviously did not think about how her confession about the extramarital affair would affect her children, and William was in a particularly sensitive period of his life at the time. To make matters worse, Diana almost openly rejected the possibility that Charles would ever deserve to be King of Great Britain because she "knows his character", and William did not like Diana's degrading reputation of his father and, inevitably, the future king. Harry and William were at school in Eaton at the time, completely alone with their grief over the shocking interview.
