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Prince Harry of Wales
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Prince Harry of Wales, in full Prince Henry Charles Albert David (born Sept. 15, 1984, London, Eng.), younger son of Charles, prince of Wales, and Diana, princess of Wales.
Like his older brother, Prince William, Harry attended a sequence of private schools before entering the prestigious Eton College. After graduating from Eton in 2003, Harry visited Argentina and Africa and worked on a cattle station in Australia and in an orphanage in Lesotho. Instead of going to university, Harry entered Sandhurst—Britain’s leading military academy for training army officers—in May 2005. He was commissioned an officer in April 2006.
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James Hewitt: the comeback cad
James Hewitt is starting afresh in Marbella – and says he will never sell his love letters from Diana, Princess of Wales.
By Celia Walden
10:37AM BST 31 Mar 2009
Old roués are a delightful breed. Guilty only of a weakness for girls and liquor, they tend to mellow, later on in life, into that rare thing: the great lunch companion.
Yes, yes, but James Hewitt? Surely he is beyond the pale? Many would argue that his behaviour crossed the boundary from caddishness to the truly dishonourable, and yet, 15 years later, in an age when Max Clifford can get you the market price on any human commodity – love, sex, pregnancy or death – a bungled attempt to sell royal love letters no longer seems as shocking as it once did.
Hewitt remains in penance regardless. Penance, for the record, turns out to be rather a nice place, where the sun shines 364 days a year, the restaurants are filled with beautiful women on old roué watch, and lunch is a two-bottle affair. Two years ago the former household cavalry officer fled Britain and relocated to Marbella, where he is opening a bar and club, The Polo House, on the fashionable beach-side stretch, The Golden Mile.
"I wanted to start afresh," he explains over lunch in the lush grounds of the Marbella Club Hotel. The Polo Club is still getting its finishing touches for the opening party on Thursday night. Hewitt is 51, looks younger but "feels 60". That mischievous red hair has sobered into a warm brown, and his eyes and forehead, now lined, bear the permanently doleful imprint of once being voted "the 37th most hated Briton" by his countrymen. Beneath his trademark toff attire of polo shirt, slacks and loafers, his body looks fit, testament to the daily morning tennis games which are a staple of his regime here.
People walk by and salute Hewitt kindly. The fabled "Love Rat" who, four years after an affair with Diana, Princess of Wales ended, co-operated on a book with Anna Pasternak and later tried to sell the 60 letters he received from the Princess for £10 million, dooming him for eternity, has reinvented himself in a place where many people do.
"London became like living in a goldfish bowl," he says. "I've let go of England but I do wish it all the best. And honestly, it's paradise here: I feel so lucky," he pauses, his forehead furrowed, "and I don't deserve that luck."
By exiling himself to Spain, Hewitt feels he is paying his dues. "I'm no longer wanted in England. I could never walk down Oxford Street again. I couldn't live with the rejection that may happen."
And yet, after winning a sub-Big Brother sweatbox competition, Back to Reality, Hewitt came dangerously close to becoming one of those reformed national treasures that reality TV shows are so good at spawning. Suddenly the "Love Rat" label was amusing rather than pejorative, that urbane accent and those manners (which are impeccable) endearing. Hewitt even had a saucy catchphrase for pretty girls: "ding-dong." It was the start of a new career for the bounder.
"I did those shows for a reason," he explains. "I wasn't about to give in to the papers without a fight. I owed it to my friends and family to try to level the playing field, and it worked. As an ex-army officer I set about trying to achieve something and achieved it."
That military pragmatism is one of Hewitt's redeeming features. Born in 1958 in Kent to a Navy officer father who was absent for much of his childhood, he joined the Brigade of Guards at 20 and went on to command 14 Challenger tanks as Operation Desert Storm liberated Kuwait, later leaving to open a golf driving range in London in 1994.
