Princess Diana’s former lover is complaining that news of her horrific death in a car crash ruined his holiday weekend plans, it was reported yesterday.
Former cavalry officer James Hewitt recently whined to a reporter that he was staying at a Spanish resort in August 1997 when he got word that his former lover had died – and it quashed his fun time, the London Sun reported.
“We knew we couldn’t go to the beach or anything after that . . . It spoiled the afternoon, really,” he said at an East London art gallery, where he was viewing a portrait of Di made from models of smashed cars, the paper reported.
“We were supposed to go watch the bull-fighting that afternoon,” Hewitt reportedly said.
But he stayed in – realizing that if he ventured out, the press might approach him to ask his reaction to the death.
Hewitt, who once claimed he was so shaken up by the accident that he considered ending his life, has been labeled “cad” and “rat” for spilling secrets about his five-year fling with Diana in a tell-all book.
A year ago, Hewitt described the Paris smash-up – which also killed the car’s driver and Diana’s boyfriend, Dodi al-Fayed – as a “good career move” for the former Princess of Wales.
The Sun also claims Hewitt recently bragged about re-enacting the scene of the crash – and concluding that the fact that he didn’t die proves the deaths weren’t an accident.