April 25, 1999
Web posted at: 12:40 a.m. EDT (0440 GMT)

LONDON (CNN) -- Princess Diana's former lover James Hewitt is auctioning the newspaper rights to his memoirs of their affair for over 500,000 pounds ($807,500), a British newspaper reported on Sunday.

Hewitt, a former cavalry officer who Diana admitted had been her lover, is currently negotiating with the Mail on Sunday and the News of the World over the rights, the Sunday Telegraph said.

The Sunday Telegraph cited an associate of Hewitt as saying the memoirs would not contain excerpts of love letters sent to him by Diana. Those letters, written between December 1990 and March 1991, were alleged to have been stolen from Hewitt last year but later recovered.

Hewitt was the riding instructor of Diana's children for a time in the 1980s.

Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris in August 1997. Also was her boyfriend, millionaire Dodi Fayed.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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