An ex-lover of Princess Diana plans to sell details of their sizzling sex life to the highest bidder.
Maj. James Hewitt is auctioning the newspaper rights to his memoirs of the five-year affair he had with the Princess of Wales, The Sunday Telegraph of London said.
Hewitt, 40, has talked with two newspapers about the serialization rights to a book he says he’s writing about the scandalous tryst, during which he was branded a “love rat.”
The bidding for the steamy kiss-and-tell is so frenzied that Hewitt could make nearly $1 million.
The Telegraph said that the Mail on Sunday was confident that it had secured the rights – but then the rival News of the World nearly doubled the offer.
The former British Life Guards officer has reportedly written 60,000 words of his book so far.
But while it will include details about his lovemaking sessions with Diana, it won’t have a single extract from the 60 love letters written to him by the princess.
That’s because the letters – in Hewitt’s possession after he won a legal battle to retrieve them from the trustees of the princess’ estate – fall under copyright law.
Hewitt’s agent, John Blake, said the memoirs will be more than just flash and trash.
“The book is not just about his affair with Diana. It’s his autobiography, and it’s a very good story. He was a war hero and very brave in the Gulf,” Blake.
Diana’s affair with Hewitt began out of her frustration with Prince Charles’ ongoing love for Camilla Parker Bowles, his lover to this day.