Prince Harry has finally addressed rumours that James Hewitt is his biological father, in his explosive new book Spare - which is due for release on Tuesday.
One snippet from the memoirs, as seen by Page Six reportedly sees Harry write: "Pa [King Charles] liked telling stories, and this was one of the best in his repertoire. He’d always end with a burst of philosophising… Who knows if I’m really the Prince of Wales?
"Who knows if I’m even your real father?"
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Birmingham Live reports that it continues: "He’d laugh and laugh, though it was a remarkably unfunny joke, given the rumour circulating just then that my actual father was one of Mummy’s former lovers: Major James Hewitt. One cause of this rumour was Major Hewitt’s flaming ginger hair, but another cause was sadism.”
He added: “Never mind that my mother didn’t meet Major Hewitt until long after I was born.”
In the book, Harry also details killing 25 people while serving as a member of the Armed Forces in Afghanistan. He writes: "Most soldiers don't know exactly how many kills they have to their credit.
"Under battle conditions, you often fire indiscriminately. However, in the age of Apaches and laptops, everything I did in the course of two tours of duty was recorded and time-stamped.
"I could always tell exactly how many enemy combatants I had killed. And it seemed essential for me not to be afraid of that figure. Among the many things I learned in the Armed Forces, one of the most important was to be accountable for my own actions."
He continued: "So my number: twenty-five. It was not something that filled me with satisfaction, but I was not ashamed either. Naturally, I would have preferred not to have that figure on my military resume, or in my head, but I would also have preferred to live in a world without the Taliban, a world without war.
"However, even for a casual practitioner of wishful thinking like myself, there are realities that cannot be changed."
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