NPR: Book Asks: Is Prince Charles Harry's Real Dad?

Book Asks: Is Prince Charles Harry's Real Dad?

This August will mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and we can expect to see lots of books, magazines and TV shows about her. But few may ask so controversial a question as the one posed by American writer Christopher Andersen in After Diana: William, Harry, Charles and the Royal House of Windsor.

Along with the bombshell question about Harry's parentage (Andersen speculates Harry's father could be Diana's lover James Hewitt, who Andersen alleges was her lover far sooner than others have written), Andersen also tells USA Today that Harry will be sent to Afghanistan instead of Iraq and suggests that Prince William and Kate Middleton will get back together -- their breakup only a ruse to get the media off her back.

In 2002, Hewitt publicly denied that he is Harry's dad. But in this excerpt from the book, carried in the New York Daily News, Andersen claims that Harry has had his doubts about his parentage.

Meanwhile, William and Harry went public Monday with their opposition to a plan by Britain's Channel Four to air photos taken the night their mother was killed in a car accident in Paris. Some of the photos, used in a documentary, show her being treated in the car at the scene of the crash. Channel Four has said it will use the photos Wednesday night as planned.

5:12 PM ET | 06- 5-2007 | permalink

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Does anyone remember that Mother Theresa died on the same day as Diana?
(Editor's Note: The two women's deaths were close together, but not on the same day. Diana died on Aug. 31, 1997, and Mother Teresa on Sept. 5.)

Sent by Peter Riordan | 9:10 AM ET | 06-06-2007

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