Do you already know who this dashing former cavalry officer is?

He was the good-looking Army officer who captured Princess Diana‘s coronary heart – earlier than lately working as a £4,000 gardener at a flat he lived in along with his mom.

But within the days after the ultimate sequence of The Crown was launched, the person nicknamed ‘The Cad’ was noticed flying dwelling from Ireland in an indication his personal circumstances could have improved.

James Hewitt, 65, was seen with a bunch of mates that included a Diana-esque Italian countess and a movie producer.

The group, who had been on a personal shoot within the west of Ireland, was heard discussing the Netflix present, its historic accuracy and its portrayal of the Royal Family over pints of Beamish Irish stout within the bar at Shannon Airport.

At one level the retired Major, who solely seems briefly in The Crown when he’s  dumped by Diana, ‘politely laughed and replied that he was positive it [the show] wasn’t completely correct’, a witness stated. 

With him in Ireland was Countess Alessandra de Michelis di Slonghello, a glamorous Italian aristocrat who has run style, artwork and excessive finish design companies in Rome, Paris, New York and London.

Hewitt was performed by Daniel Donskoy in season 4 of The Crown and his companions had been apparently discussing its deserves over a drinks earlier than taking off for Heathrow with Aer Lingus on Sunday.

A fellow drinker instructed MailOnline: ‘The group arrived in good spirits at Shannon Airport. They loved a drink on the bar in departures the place they had been overheard discussing movies and new tv releases – together with The Crown’.

A spokesman for Mr Hewitt declined to remark, saying the shoot and the circle with him was a personal matter.

Hewitt’s look in The Crown was transient, though there was a fictitious scene through which his affair with Diana was mentioned by Charles and the Queen.

The then Prince of Wales tells his mom that he desires to start out separation proceedings after studying that Diana has resumed her affair with Hewitt.

He tells the Queen: ‘She has resumed her affair with Major Hewitt with flagrant disregard for our settlement we made in our assembly with you. A gathering through which it’s now clear, she overtly lied to your face.

‘It leaves me with no possibility however to start out the method of formal separation.’

He exclaims: ‘She makes me overtly sad and there may be another person on the market who would make me completely completely happy.’

Hewitt additionally pops up in dialog when Diana tells her therapist that she has ended their relationship and he’s not welcome at Kensington Palace, telling her employees to ship him away.

Hewitt has hyperlinks to Ireland. He was born in Londonderry whereas his marine father was primarily based there with the Royal Marines earlier than shifting to Kent and going to Sandhurst.

The former cavalry officer turned probably the most well-known males on the planet after his affair with William and Harry’s mom emerged. 

There had been even false rumours he was Harry’s father, however it was later confirmed he did not meet Diana till after the Duke of Sussex was born.

Princess Diana met him when he was employed to show her to trip in an effort to beat her lifelong concern of horses in late 1986.

Their relationship turned intimate the next 12 months. By then, her marriage was over in all however title — Prince Charles had returned to his former lover, Camilla Parker Bowles. He later claimed he did so solely when his marriage had develop into ‘irretrievably broken’.

The couple remained collectively till 1992. By then, Hewitt had been named as a big determine in Diana’s life and the letters she despatched to him had been supposedly locked in his secure. In 2003, Hewitt apparently tried to promote his 64 private letters from Diana for £10million.

The couple had been pressured aside when he was despatched to Iraq within the 1991 Gulf War and cut up after their affair was made public.

Hewitt had spent 17 years within the Household Cavalry and was a tank commander within the first Gulf struggle.

But when it emerged that he had loved a protracted correspondence with the Princess of Wales throughout the Gulf War, he was discharged from the Life Guards in 1994.

Hewitt then revealed particulars of their affair in Princess In Love, a e book which he co-authored and printed in 1994.

Diana gave her Panorama interview months later.

In an interview with an Australian information community in March 2017, Hewitt recalled the second he fell in love with the Princess.

‘She had an aurora of one thing particular round her,’ he stated. He additionally admitted he wished to ‘whisk her away’ from the highlight.

‘It’s a gradual interval after which, you already know, all of the sudden you’ll be able to’t get sufficient of one another or see one another as a lot as you need,’ he stated.

He revealed the pair used to spend high quality time collectively, having fun with walks alongside the seashore or a mall and cooking dinners.

‘Well, I’d cook dinner and he or she’d wash up. Just dinner and enjoyable and laughing,’ he added.