![]() Personal life Affair with the Princess of Wales Hewitt was portrayed by Daniel Donskoy in season four of The Crown, and by Gareth Keegan in the musical Diana. In 2009, Hewitt opened a bar called the Polo House in the fashionable Golden Mile of Marbella, Spain. 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": when the presenters seemingly did not recognise him upon his arrival, they were apparently too embarrassed to admit as much, and rather than ask him his name, they listed his lap time as "Well Spoken Man". ![]() ![]() He won the Channel 5 reality show Back to Reality in 2004 in 2006, Hewitt appeared as a contestant in The X Factor: Battle of the Stars, the celebrity version of The X Factor. Hewitt opened a golf driving range in 1994. The BBC reported in 2003 that in retirement, Hewitt was granted the rank of major which was "in line with common army practice". On 1 March 1994, he was retired from the British Army after 17 years of military service. He failed the exam for promotion to major three times. He was mentioned in despatches "in recognition of service during the operation in the Gulf" in June 1991. In 1991, he served as a Challenger tank squadron commander in the Gulf War. On 21 October 1985, he transferred from a special regular commission to a regular commission. He was promoted to acting captain on 8 October 1984. He transferred from a short service commission to a special regular commission on 1 October 1981. He was promoted to lieutenant on 8 April 1980. Career Military Īfter graduating from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Hewitt was commissioned into the Life Guards, British Army, on 8 April 1978 as a second lieutenant. Hewitt was educated at Norwood Preparatory School in Exeter before going to Millfield, a public school, in Street, Somerset. His mother, Shirley Stamp, was daughter of a London dental surgeon who lived in Devon. Hewitt was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, where his father, 1952 Olympic pentathlete John Hewitt, was stationed with the Royal Marines. He came to public attention in the mid-1990s after he disclosed an affair with Diana, Princess of Wales, while she was still married to then- Prince Charles. James Lifford Hewitt (born 30 April 1958) is a former cavalry officer in the British Army. Norwood Preparatory School, Exeter & Millfield School
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