Lady Diana's alleged lovers, from James Hewitt to John Kennedy Jr.
In season 4 of The Crown, Lady Diana reconnects with a former lover in the light of her tumultuous marriage to Prince Charles. From rugby player Will Carling to art dealer Oliver Hoare, a look back at the multiple connections that the tabloids have lent to the princess of hearts.
"There were three of us in this marriage (...)", declared Lady Diana in an interview with the BBC in 1995. The Princess of Hearts of course refers to the affair maintained by her husband, Prince Charles, with Camilla Parker Bowles. During the interview, Diana Spencer also admits having herself experienced a love affair with the cavalry officer James Hewitt. An idyll mentioned in episode 9 of season 4 of The Crown, available since November 15 on Netflix. We see the Princess of Wales sneaking the soldier into Kensington Palace. James Hewitt himself remembered this connection in his book Love and War, published in 1999 by Blake Pub.
"We fell in love"
According to the author, captain then major in the British army, the princess asked him to give him riding lessons during an evening with friends. “There was only one downside,” he wrote. We fell in love. ” During the eleven years of marriage between Prince Charles and Lady Diana, the tabloids lent the latter a total of seven liaisons. She would have notably lived a romance with Barry Mannakee, her bodyguard, the former car salesman James Gilbey, or the art dealer Oliver Hoare. But the love of his life would be none other than Hasnat Khan, a surgeon whom the princess falls in love with after her separation from Prince Charles in 1992. Their romance will last two years. The surgeon will put an end to it himself, cautious at the idea that their story is more publicized.
