{"id":51015,"date":"2025-04-26T02:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T02:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51015\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T02:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T02:48:09","slug":"king-charless-shocking-joke-to-harry-about-not-really-being-his-dad-and-his-reaction-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51015\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles’s shocking joke to Harry about ‘not really being his dad’ and his reaction | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his memoir, Spare, Prince Harry once recounted how King Charles<\/a> made a savage joke about who his “real father” was. The Duke of Sussex spoke about his life as a senior member of the Royal Family and described how he grew up amid speculation that his true father was Princess Diana’s former lover, Major James Hewitt.<\/p>\n

Prince Harry<\/a> claimed in the memoir that Charles joked: “Who knows if I’m even your real father?”<\/p>\n

He added: “Perhaps your father really is in Broadmoor, my dear son!” The Prince also wrote in the memoir that the joke was “in poor taste”.<\/p>\n

The hardback edition came out in January 2023<\/a>, breaking records at bookshops as it became Britain’s best-selling book in 2023 with more than 700,000 copies sold.<\/p>\n

Princess Diana had a five-year affair between 1986 and 1991 with Mr Hewitt when he was a Household Cavalry officer. The relationship was confirmed by the Princess of Wales in a BBC Panorama interview with journalist Martin Bashir.<\/a><\/p>\n

People have speculated that Prince Harry<\/a> shares his looks with Mr Hewitt, and Prince Harry<\/a> referenced these rumours in his book.<\/p>\n

Harry wrote: “The joke was damn funny in light of the rumour going around at the time that my real father was one of my mother’s ex-lovers: Major James Hewitt. Tabloid readers loved the idea that Prince Charles’s youngest son was not Prince Charles’s son. They never got tired of that ‘joke’, for some reason.”<\/p>\n

He also said it did not seem to matter that Diana had not even met Major Hewitt “until long after I was born”. He claimed some journalists went so far as to begin “hunting my DNA to verify it”.<\/p>\n

Harry also wrote in the book that on the day he was born, Charles celebrated the “wonderful” news by telling Diana: “Now you’ve given me an heir and a spare, my work is done.”<\/p>\n

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have since stepped back as senior royals in 2020<\/a> and eventually moved to California with Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.<\/p>\n

It is thought Harry last visited his father in February 2024, after the public announcement of his cancer diagnosis, when Harry boarded a plane to visit the King at Clarence House for a brief meeting.<\/a><\/p>\n

At the time, Harry cleared his diary and made the journey to the UK alone, with the Duchess of Sussex and their children remaining at home in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his memoir, Spare, Prince Harry once recounted how King Charles made a savage joke about who his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,27296,1760,518,447,2655,27298,27297,7710,519,27295],"class_list":{"0":"post-51015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-james-hewitt","12":"tag-king-charles","13":"tag-king-charles-iii","14":"tag-prince-harry","15":"tag-prince-harry-news","16":"tag-prince-harry-real-dad","17":"tag-prince-harrys-dad","18":"tag-royal-families","19":"tag-royal-family","20":"tag-spare"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}