James Hewitt

James Lifford Hewitt was portrayed by Daniel Donskoy in Season 4 of The Crown. He disclosed an affair with Diana, Princess of Wales, while she was still married to the heir apparent to the throne of the United Kingdom, Prince Charles. In 2003, Hewitt tried to sell his 64 personal letters from Diana for £10 million.

About James Hewitt in brief

Summary James HewittJames Lifford Hewitt is a British former cavalry officer in the British Army. He disclosed an affair with Diana, Princess of Wales, while she was still married to the heir apparent to the throne of the United Kingdom, Prince Charles. Hewitt was portrayed by Daniel Donskoy in Season 4 of The Crown. In 2003, Hewitt tried to sell his 64 personal letters from Diana for £10 million. In 2004, he was arrested outside a restaurant in Fulham with Alison Bell, a CNN journalist, for the possession of cocaine in his pocket.

He was given a warning and released without charge. In 2006, he appeared as a contestant in The X Factor: Battle of the Stars. He also appeared in the first episode of the UK Top Gear in Series 8 in May of the same year to participate with other celebrities in setting power lap times around the Top Gear Test Track in the show’s newest \”reasonably priced car\” In 2009, he opened a bar called the Polo House in the fashionable Golden Mile of Marbella, Spain. It closed in 2013.